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The Story Challenge

The Story Challenge

This post is part of the 'Re-Imagining Discipleship' Series: Insights and reflections from Seed's 2023 Summit.“Story provides the deepest structural framework in which human life is to be understood. There is no more fundamental way in which human beings interpret their lives than through a story.”1This is not a new idea. When Mike Goheen penned these words in 2012, what seemed to be a revolution in how we read and understand scripture (and indeed the world and ourselves) through the lens of...

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Faith + Entrepreneurship

Faith + Entrepreneurship

The first time I inadvertently explored the intersection between entrepreneurship and faith was through the gold-standard of middle-school communication: the viral chain-emails promising good fortune or the absence of utter tragedy if you forwarded it along to 20 friends.

Failing Forward

Failing Forward

Some people refuse to use the word failure. Instead, they substitute words like slip-up, setback, glitch, mistake—or at least frame the failure in a positive light.   

Work Is Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be

Work Is Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be

The Bible explains that because of the rebellion of humanity against God’s good intention for our lives, shalom is not the way it is anymore. Instead of work consistently being done for the flourishing of all, work is often just a means to other ends, sinful ends.