Six New Things – Week of May 18, 2026

It's National Mental Health Awareness Month. How is your mental health? How about the people you serve? Let's tend to our broken and hurting parts so we can embrace the beauty and joy emerging within and around us. ONE Start with The Healing…

Beauty Will Save the World

I've been hatching a plan to create resources to support congregations and leaders through the upcoming observances of the 250th Anniversary of the USA's Declaration of Independence. There's a lot that will be ugly. We who follow Jesus can…

Six New Things – Week of May 04, 2026

This week's three-part Great Idea(s) support intergenerational processing of anger and violence and empower community-transforming action. Some of those resources are here, too, along with relationship-building and healing inspiration for May. ONE College…

Find Your Way Home to Climate Care

This Great Idea builds on From Fear to Fire: Igniting Community for a Planet in Peril, the 2026 EcoFaith Summit of the Upper Midwest, where discussions of expanding congressional climate care encouraged us all to be community organizers for…

Culture Shock? Culture Shift.

This is Part II of this week's Great Idea(s): Part I supports processing the anger and violence 0f these traumatic days. Part II supports shifting local culture through multi-generational community activism - for the well-being of our political…

Elders & Youth: Relationships Replace Violence

This week, we've got three Great Ideas that play off of one another: Part I includes resources to help us process the anger and violence 0f these traumatic days. Part II supports shifting local culture through multi-generational community activism…