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The Big Idea
What are ways we can collaborate together better?
Another motivation for this site is the fact that Pastors and churches have a hard time collaborating in meaningful and open ways. Sure there are Christian colleges, Seminaries and even conferences all aimed at the sharing of knowledge and practice. But all of these forums are structured within an expert to student relationship. We have precious few methods to exchange and collaborate on ideas in a long term or sustained way between churches and their leaders.
We often get stuck in The Packaging Trap. Rather than opening conversations, we tend to get caught up in marketing a new curriculum, or book, or journal. All of these forms of idea sharing are good in their own right, but tend to lean toward encouraging copy and pasting ideas into a new context. We all know this does not work. Curriculums often end up being more work than just doing something yourself most of the time. They also tend to elevate the writer, or producer, of a curriculum above the “users” of the material. There is no mutual exchange or relationship.
So the desire of this garden is to be a space to explore collaboration that is more fluid and immediately useful for myself, but also to visitors who use this garden as a resource. I am just as fallible as any other human, keeping track of notes and ideas like this make that even more apparent. But it also allows learning to be more intentional and open. Every note you read is in need of refinement, challenging, application, and improvement. All of which are tasks much better suited to a community, than an individual working in isolation.
I have nothing to sell or package or advertised, these are simply the contents of my thinking and study. They are useful to me and maybe will be useful to someone else too.