I have a hunch.
The maker movement is changing the way we think about education, formation, creativity, job training, and so much more. I think the church is going to learn a lot from this movement. I think the church is a natural participant and partner.
“The world is a better place as a participatory sport,” says Mark Hatch. I say the church is nothing if not a participatory sport.
I don’t know where any of this is going, but I know I can’t not write, think, and do something about the way I came alive when Lisa Brown and I spent the week with a bunch of makers in Pittsburgh recently. I know it’s not just because I’m engineer. The church is called to creativity.
The church has a lot to learn from the maker movement, and I hope vice versa. Let’s test that hypothesis in as active a way as possible.
More soon.