Six New Things – Week of July 21, 2025

Historical truth-telling - even in the guise of fiction - helps us identify the ills of our past so we can imagine and build a more life-giving future. All ages can explore dystopian realities and find sustenance for resistance and reorienting…

Got Solar? No? Get It Now!!

This is more than a Great Idea: this is resistance to Empire, care of creation writ large, and financial sustainability all wrapped in one. Rather than summarize this brief letter, here is Buff Grace's missive (from MNIPL), in its totality:   The…

Forts

This Great Idea stems directly from the book by the same name: Forts affirms: Everyone needs a room of their own. A place to hide and play, ponder and dream. Whether it’s a tree house in the backyard or a blanket fort inside, a fort is…

Six New Things – Week of July 07, 2025

The path into self-awareness opens us to process powerful emotions, heal from trauma, learn from others, develop our True Selves, and enact change that empowers thriving - through vulnerability. ONE Start Littles on 'a journey through a full…

Climate-Aware VBS

This Great Idea is based on two pieces from Katharine Hayhoe's September 7, 2024 Talking Climate post: Katharine opens with the Good News of Pollinator-Friendly Solar Farms and how they boost biodiversity well beyond themselves. Citing the…

Third Space Ministries

Thanks to Traci Smith for suggesting this Great Idea in her June 24, 2025, Treasure Box Tuesday post. Smith writes: I’ve been thinking a lot about how churches are (or can be) THIRD PLACES. What would it look like to open up your church…

Earth Day – Warming Stripes

This Great Idea was shared by Katharine Hayhoe in her weekly post - but originates with climate scientist Ed Hawkins from the University of Reading. AND YES: Earth Day has come and gone for this year - but this is appropriate for just about…