so I’ve never written a book I just
thought I’d put out my great undone
right there I’ve just never written a
book I’ve read a bunch of them by the
time my dad was my age he had written
more than I’ve probably read at this
point and it’s something that I’ve
always wanted to do it’s not that I
haven’t wanted to and it’s not that I
haven’t been busy doing other things I
have been I’ve been raising three
children with my wife who’s right over
there and amazing I have been writing
music and traveling the world playing
music I’ve been able to speak on many
different in many different countries
and on many different continents I’ve
had the opportunity to work with people
who are homeless to work with people in
all across the world that are in need I
have had wonderful opportunities in my
life but I’ve never written a book and
the problem is something like this it’s
not because I haven’t been unbusy or
effective in what I’ve done what I
haven’t really had is a framework in
which to take all these wonderful and
creative ideas and put them together in
an innovative way what I’ve done while
it’s been a lot of fun and kind of all
over the place has not been well
designed today we’re going to talk a
little bit about what it means to have a
designed faith and I often wonder as
I’ve turned 46 and getting close to that
50 which is the beginning of middle age
I live in Loma Linda which is a blue
zone so I’m definitely gonna live to a
hundred I have no problem with that
the only problem is that I’ve started
riding a motorcycle so I think
statistically that changes some things
for me very perhaps but I always would
go back to what one of my mentors who I
met when he was in his 90s doctor will
Alexander said I was sitting next to him
in a meeting one time and I said dr.
Alexander why do you still do this why
do you still round
with your patience you don’t have to do
any of this anymore you’ve been retired
for like 50 years already I’m not real
great with math and he looked at me and
he said you know I’ve done my best work
since I was 70 years old why would I
stop now and so I think there’s still
hope and in my time both in ministry and
then moving on to a short time and a
short little excerpt in healthcare I was
lucky enough to sit with some of the
most innovative people and most
thoughtfully designed people in the
world I was lucky to work with Landon
Morris from innovation labs who just
happens to do things like train the
innovators in China as a side job for
himself or go and experience the
innovation labs that they have at frog
labs up in San Francisco or do
experience design tours and spend time
at their experience design a house in
Colorado with stir isin I learned a new
language I learned a new framework I
learned a new way to think about my life
it changed everything for me
it was like they were speaking a
language that I had always known kind of
intrinsically but no one had ever taught
to me and now it was being taught to me
I had found my tribe and you know what
it’s like to find your tribe life
changes and in fact growing up I was
always considered a creative teachers
didn’t love it but in fact I’ll say
creative with with my with my quotation
marks because during class I would
always do what was absolutely the best
use of my time which was dreaming about
the way things could be rather than
thinking about the way things are which
has to do with homework and math you see
I grew up in a home where creativity was
encouraged where a do yourself ethos was
absolutely important and where
entrepreneurship was encouraged as well
I grew up thinking sky’s the limit this
caused me to do some very strange things
one to start a rock band while I was in
seminary getting a Masters of Divinity
degree whatever that is one was the
second one is to put coffee shops pretty
much every single place that I worked
but because
didn’t have a good framework or a good
infrastructure for this kind of thinking
I thought I was an anomaly I thought I
was an outlier i meeting innovation
taught me my native tongue and I would
listen to these guys and women as they
would talk about what is phenomenal
about innovation and design thinking and
experience design and I would think as
they started their sentences I need to
listen carefully because by the end of
the sentence the rest of my life will
change this was a phenomenal learning
for me a little bit later on in life the
only problem is this
I work in faith and faith is not
considered to be very innovative
churches don’t change people of faith
often don’t change
it’s barely creative but it is actually
incredibly important pew did a research
study in 2015 where they asked 35,000
adults how important faith was 53% said
it was very important 11% said it was
important but not very important that’s
64 percent of their polling group that
said it is important for them if we just
take that number 53 percent and scale it
to let’s say just America that’s a
hundred and sixty two million people
that say faith is very important to them
another Pew Research study that was done
from 2012 to 2017 broke it down like
this about 40 about 48% of those polled
said that they were both religious and
spiritual now this is down for 59% in
2012 but even though that seems like a
frightening statistic the landscape of
faith in America is actually relatively
stable but it’s shifting it looks
different those who said that they were
spiritual and not religious went to 27%
now this is up from 19% in 2012 this
means that a quarter of the population
believes that they are spiritual but not
religious there is about 18 percent that
they said that they did not feel as if
they were religious or spiritual this is
up just 2% so that’s a good statistic
that
it’s not raising that high and then
there’s this weird little group six
percent that believe that they’re
religious but not spiritual at all and
you wonder if they just don’t understand
the definition of the terms but as I
work in faith and we’re just gonna use
the term faith to kind of cover
spirituality and religion and all that’s
put in there so we’re not talking about
one specific group as a pastor as a
community builder there’s this question
that you are assumed to ask people and
it’s a strange question it’s a question
that has perplexed me forever and the
question is simply this how is your
spiritual life I never know what they’re
supposed to answer and this is what
happens all I would ask at the beginning
of my career how’s your spiritual life
and they would say to me oh it’s pretty
good it could be better because we don’t
you know we want to be humble right we
don’t want to be proud of our spiritual
life that seems weird right God and I
are good he likes me a lot you can’t say
things like that so you say essentially
it’s pretty good could be better after
about a hundred of those I realized I
don’t think I know what I’m asking
because I never knew what people were
asking me when this question would come
up are you asking me how much I pray are
you asking me what I think about
compassion and how often I’m engaged in
that kind of work are you asking me
about specific religious practices what
are you asking me when you talk about
how is your spiritual life it doesn’t
make a lot of sense to me but it is
assumed that I will ask this question
now going back to those statistics that
we had just looked at we can learn three
things about faith in people’s life
number one spirituality religion faith
are important to the majority of people
that we live work pray and play with
number two there is a rise in those that
don’t necessarily associate or identify
with religion specifically but faith is
still important and number three it’s
simply this there is work to be done
now as my primary vocation that question
of how is your spiritual life constantly
constantly made me question what it was
I was asking about because there’s not a
lot of metrics I mean there are some
metrics when it comes to faith and faith
maturity there’s faith maturity scales
intrinsic faith questions extrinsic
faith questions
faith and health has done a lot of work
around this area doctor Koenig and dr.
Gary Gunderson faith and health go hand
in hand and what they’ve begun to
realize is that these things faith and
health are not separate things and as I
worked in faith in health for a little
while I began to realize more succinctly
that the problem we have when it comes
to asking this incomplete question how
is your spiritual life is because we
have somehow bifurcated the idea of our
lives and our spiritual lives it is an
incomplete question our lives are
integrated whole simply said we don’t
have a faith life we have a life and
faith is a part of it because then we
all know this life as a whole not a part
everything affects everything 80% of the
work that has been done in faith and
health has centered around mental
illness and what we know is that people
who say or claim some sort of faith deal
better with things like optimism
depression anxiety self-esteem the list
goes on and on there are direct
correlations between an individual’s
ability to deal with adversity positive
emotions well-being and happiness as
well as again optimism meaning and
purpose self-esteem sense of control
anxiety depression and even more faith
matters in every aspect of our lives I
would go so far as to say this to
separate life from faith is to destroy
the very essence of our own humanity
faith is what humans do faith in each
other faith in those chairs you’re
sitting in we do faith and to deny this
is to cut off a proverbial arm why
because faith asks big questions and we
as human being wants bigger answers
meaning purpose trajectory questions
more important than even the myriad of
answers we give to them and in fact so
many of us as we live our lives realize
that asking big questions
is an avocation for most of us this
avocation this thing we do for love and
not for money is something that we are
deeply engaged in and becomes a
wayfinding process for each of us and we
live the answers we live the answers
because life is liturgy the idea that
liturgy which is the work of the people
and we understand that our lives are
this liturgy what we believe who we are
how we interact what our core values and
principles are they all come out in our
lives in our liturgical lives if we
could use that term it oozes out of our
pores it lives in our children as they
catch our narratives and questions and
as and finds a dwelling place within us
and within our society as a whole and if
it’s that important we need to think
differently about faith than we have in
the past and so having been exposed to
design thinking and experience design
and innovation I began to say hey is
there a way that we can marry these two
subjects faith which is kind of I cannot
whistle today out there and the hard
concrete science of innovation is that
their way to put Design Thinking towards
this design thinking is simply a
methodology used by designers to solve
complex problems and find desirable
solutions for their clients design
thinking draws upon logic imagination
intuition and systemic reasoning to
explore possibilities of what could be
and to create desired outcomes that
benefit the end user the customer for
designers but you for people of faith
and that doesn’t sound very faith like
but I assure you that it is the problem
is we have to take a look second and
look at what the metrics of faith are if
faith if life and faith are connected
and a connected whole and especially if
they are important to the majority of
people around us perhaps we should be
finding ways in which to design our
faith lives so they might manifest in
our actions and attitudes in more
demands for the monstre belays but again
we need metrics so I started looking
around to find some kind of broad and
general metrics and these are the ones
that I came up with
you can come up with your own list for
your lives but these are the ones that
resonate with me some of them come from
the world happiness report of 2017 some
come from a book called beyond religion
by the Dalai Lama but it begins with
this mutual trust as we become a people
who trust one another we see faith
beginning to grow after that shared
purpose once we trust one another we can
find a shared purpose and live together
no matter what
we say we believe in this leads to
generosity a generosity of spirit and a
generosity of soul so that the world
might be a place where peace of mind
reigns beyond conflict this peace of
mind gives us time in our lives when we
don’t have the same sort of anxiety and
certainly the same sort of anxiety about
our neighbors or our neighborhood we
begin to become a more compassionate
people and that compassion always leads
to hope innovation and design thinking
can help us move from faith as an idea
or a concept to the manifestation of
purpose if faith is our search for the
purpose or our existence innovation and
design is how we connect to and manifest
purpose through ideas and or products so
what we’re talking about is a designed
faith and we will move quickly a design
faith starts and must have a process to
get us towards those metrics and so in
three minutes let me see if I can give
them to you the first thing we have to
do is begin to uncover this is the
desire and ability to look at your
life’s narrative and connect it with who
you are to discover the metric you are
looking for and see how it works in your
life is to uncover the problem or
trajectory we are looking to move
towards uncover and then we prepare and
we have a we have a saying in my work in
our church our saying is this prepare
never plan as we don’t know where the
iterative process will take us and we
certainly don’t know in our lives of
faith it is important to prepare for
where we might go not plan for where we
should
go we look for patterns and symbols that
mean something we uncover them and we
uncover the why of them and we continue
on after we prepare and after we have
set the foundation of where we want to
go in our trajectory we begin to consume
and we begin to consume a vast and
varied amount of information this is
where you have to take on a myriad of
things because wisdom and inspiration
requires learning or at least the
consumption of ideas and practices and
it needs to be across the board the best
experience I have ever had I should not
say that it’s not the best experience
the weirdest experience I ever had was
picking up a knitting magazine because I
wanted to read something different when
I got on a plane that’s different and
you all assume I don’t knit I don’t but
the point being I was reading this
knitting magazine learning lots about
things I will probably never use the guy
next to me was fascinated I gave him the
magazine at the end of the day consumed
because once we consume and we are
inspired and we are motivated we can
begin to create this is where we
experiment we explore and we envision of
what our lives of faith might be and we
don’t do this alone people of faith are
not lonely people of faith come together
in community through this creation we
begin to manifest see what is becoming
from the previous work that we’ve been
doing take a metric test are you leaning
into those things that we talked about
before or the process is moving you in a
different direction evaluate what’s
going on in your life and change it if
it is not working and in fact this is
the very next point
fail fail fast but always fail forward
prototype in your life of faith and see
what works iterate around what doesn’t
and see if that ideation in that
ideation you might be able to create a
better process to try and become a
person that values faith and lives in to
manifest those ideas that we say are so
core to who we are in any form of faith
there’s going to be a simple matter of
trust and that fits in the process
as well simply this trust your instincts
if it isn’t you it isn’t right we
shouldn’t hold on to what doesn’t work
user interface has to be natural it has
to be natural on your phone why wouldn’t
it be natural in your life of faith as
well and lastly as you do this as you
iterate as you work your way through
then you take a look and you say hey how
can I share this with people because we
learn from one another we tell the world
as we make sense out of it and sometimes
we’ll still make the road by walking on
it as Brian McLaren says but we share it
and this is not proselytization for a
particular kind of faith rather this is
the invitation through mutual trust to
find shared purpose together I thought
I’d just read the last sentence here a
design faith perhaps means a more
trustful world a world where generosity
is bigger than scarcity and jealousy
were shared purpose transcends tribal
and cultural boundaries where compassion
is the deepest and most sought-after
value where peace of mind is assured and
where hope becomes the way finer and the
anchor point of our lives a design faith
can bring us to these things if we’re
willing if we’re willing to pair the
most innovative thinking with some of
the most oldest faith that the world has
ever seen and I don’t know to me this
sounds like it would be a good book
thank you guys
[Applause]
thought I’d put out my great undone
right there I’ve just never written a
book I’ve read a bunch of them by the
time my dad was my age he had written
more than I’ve probably read at this
point and it’s something that I’ve
always wanted to do it’s not that I
haven’t wanted to and it’s not that I
haven’t been busy doing other things I
have been I’ve been raising three
children with my wife who’s right over
there and amazing I have been writing
music and traveling the world playing
music I’ve been able to speak on many
different in many different countries
and on many different continents I’ve
had the opportunity to work with people
who are homeless to work with people in
all across the world that are in need I
have had wonderful opportunities in my
life but I’ve never written a book and
the problem is something like this it’s
not because I haven’t been unbusy or
effective in what I’ve done what I
haven’t really had is a framework in
which to take all these wonderful and
creative ideas and put them together in
an innovative way what I’ve done while
it’s been a lot of fun and kind of all
over the place has not been well
designed today we’re going to talk a
little bit about what it means to have a
designed faith and I often wonder as
I’ve turned 46 and getting close to that
50 which is the beginning of middle age
I live in Loma Linda which is a blue
zone so I’m definitely gonna live to a
hundred I have no problem with that
the only problem is that I’ve started
riding a motorcycle so I think
statistically that changes some things
for me very perhaps but I always would
go back to what one of my mentors who I
met when he was in his 90s doctor will
Alexander said I was sitting next to him
in a meeting one time and I said dr.
Alexander why do you still do this why
do you still round
with your patience you don’t have to do
any of this anymore you’ve been retired
for like 50 years already I’m not real
great with math and he looked at me and
he said you know I’ve done my best work
since I was 70 years old why would I
stop now and so I think there’s still
hope and in my time both in ministry and
then moving on to a short time and a
short little excerpt in healthcare I was
lucky enough to sit with some of the
most innovative people and most
thoughtfully designed people in the
world I was lucky to work with Landon
Morris from innovation labs who just
happens to do things like train the
innovators in China as a side job for
himself or go and experience the
innovation labs that they have at frog
labs up in San Francisco or do
experience design tours and spend time
at their experience design a house in
Colorado with stir isin I learned a new
language I learned a new framework I
learned a new way to think about my life
it changed everything for me
it was like they were speaking a
language that I had always known kind of
intrinsically but no one had ever taught
to me and now it was being taught to me
I had found my tribe and you know what
it’s like to find your tribe life
changes and in fact growing up I was
always considered a creative teachers
didn’t love it but in fact I’ll say
creative with with my with my quotation
marks because during class I would
always do what was absolutely the best
use of my time which was dreaming about
the way things could be rather than
thinking about the way things are which
has to do with homework and math you see
I grew up in a home where creativity was
encouraged where a do yourself ethos was
absolutely important and where
entrepreneurship was encouraged as well
I grew up thinking sky’s the limit this
caused me to do some very strange things
one to start a rock band while I was in
seminary getting a Masters of Divinity
degree whatever that is one was the
second one is to put coffee shops pretty
much every single place that I worked
but because
didn’t have a good framework or a good
infrastructure for this kind of thinking
I thought I was an anomaly I thought I
was an outlier i meeting innovation
taught me my native tongue and I would
listen to these guys and women as they
would talk about what is phenomenal
about innovation and design thinking and
experience design and I would think as
they started their sentences I need to
listen carefully because by the end of
the sentence the rest of my life will
change this was a phenomenal learning
for me a little bit later on in life the
only problem is this
I work in faith and faith is not
considered to be very innovative
churches don’t change people of faith
often don’t change
it’s barely creative but it is actually
incredibly important pew did a research
study in 2015 where they asked 35,000
adults how important faith was 53% said
it was very important 11% said it was
important but not very important that’s
64 percent of their polling group that
said it is important for them if we just
take that number 53 percent and scale it
to let’s say just America that’s a
hundred and sixty two million people
that say faith is very important to them
another Pew Research study that was done
from 2012 to 2017 broke it down like
this about 40 about 48% of those polled
said that they were both religious and
spiritual now this is down for 59% in
2012 but even though that seems like a
frightening statistic the landscape of
faith in America is actually relatively
stable but it’s shifting it looks
different those who said that they were
spiritual and not religious went to 27%
now this is up from 19% in 2012 this
means that a quarter of the population
believes that they are spiritual but not
religious there is about 18 percent that
they said that they did not feel as if
they were religious or spiritual this is
up just 2% so that’s a good statistic
that
it’s not raising that high and then
there’s this weird little group six
percent that believe that they’re
religious but not spiritual at all and
you wonder if they just don’t understand
the definition of the terms but as I
work in faith and we’re just gonna use
the term faith to kind of cover
spirituality and religion and all that’s
put in there so we’re not talking about
one specific group as a pastor as a
community builder there’s this question
that you are assumed to ask people and
it’s a strange question it’s a question
that has perplexed me forever and the
question is simply this how is your
spiritual life I never know what they’re
supposed to answer and this is what
happens all I would ask at the beginning
of my career how’s your spiritual life
and they would say to me oh it’s pretty
good it could be better because we don’t
you know we want to be humble right we
don’t want to be proud of our spiritual
life that seems weird right God and I
are good he likes me a lot you can’t say
things like that so you say essentially
it’s pretty good could be better after
about a hundred of those I realized I
don’t think I know what I’m asking
because I never knew what people were
asking me when this question would come
up are you asking me how much I pray are
you asking me what I think about
compassion and how often I’m engaged in
that kind of work are you asking me
about specific religious practices what
are you asking me when you talk about
how is your spiritual life it doesn’t
make a lot of sense to me but it is
assumed that I will ask this question
now going back to those statistics that
we had just looked at we can learn three
things about faith in people’s life
number one spirituality religion faith
are important to the majority of people
that we live work pray and play with
number two there is a rise in those that
don’t necessarily associate or identify
with religion specifically but faith is
still important and number three it’s
simply this there is work to be done
now as my primary vocation that question
of how is your spiritual life constantly
constantly made me question what it was
I was asking about because there’s not a
lot of metrics I mean there are some
metrics when it comes to faith and faith
maturity there’s faith maturity scales
intrinsic faith questions extrinsic
faith questions
faith and health has done a lot of work
around this area doctor Koenig and dr.
Gary Gunderson faith and health go hand
in hand and what they’ve begun to
realize is that these things faith and
health are not separate things and as I
worked in faith in health for a little
while I began to realize more succinctly
that the problem we have when it comes
to asking this incomplete question how
is your spiritual life is because we
have somehow bifurcated the idea of our
lives and our spiritual lives it is an
incomplete question our lives are
integrated whole simply said we don’t
have a faith life we have a life and
faith is a part of it because then we
all know this life as a whole not a part
everything affects everything 80% of the
work that has been done in faith and
health has centered around mental
illness and what we know is that people
who say or claim some sort of faith deal
better with things like optimism
depression anxiety self-esteem the list
goes on and on there are direct
correlations between an individual’s
ability to deal with adversity positive
emotions well-being and happiness as
well as again optimism meaning and
purpose self-esteem sense of control
anxiety depression and even more faith
matters in every aspect of our lives I
would go so far as to say this to
separate life from faith is to destroy
the very essence of our own humanity
faith is what humans do faith in each
other faith in those chairs you’re
sitting in we do faith and to deny this
is to cut off a proverbial arm why
because faith asks big questions and we
as human being wants bigger answers
meaning purpose trajectory questions
more important than even the myriad of
answers we give to them and in fact so
many of us as we live our lives realize
that asking big questions
is an avocation for most of us this
avocation this thing we do for love and
not for money is something that we are
deeply engaged in and becomes a
wayfinding process for each of us and we
live the answers we live the answers
because life is liturgy the idea that
liturgy which is the work of the people
and we understand that our lives are
this liturgy what we believe who we are
how we interact what our core values and
principles are they all come out in our
lives in our liturgical lives if we
could use that term it oozes out of our
pores it lives in our children as they
catch our narratives and questions and
as and finds a dwelling place within us
and within our society as a whole and if
it’s that important we need to think
differently about faith than we have in
the past and so having been exposed to
design thinking and experience design
and innovation I began to say hey is
there a way that we can marry these two
subjects faith which is kind of I cannot
whistle today out there and the hard
concrete science of innovation is that
their way to put Design Thinking towards
this design thinking is simply a
methodology used by designers to solve
complex problems and find desirable
solutions for their clients design
thinking draws upon logic imagination
intuition and systemic reasoning to
explore possibilities of what could be
and to create desired outcomes that
benefit the end user the customer for
designers but you for people of faith
and that doesn’t sound very faith like
but I assure you that it is the problem
is we have to take a look second and
look at what the metrics of faith are if
faith if life and faith are connected
and a connected whole and especially if
they are important to the majority of
people around us perhaps we should be
finding ways in which to design our
faith lives so they might manifest in
our actions and attitudes in more
demands for the monstre belays but again
we need metrics so I started looking
around to find some kind of broad and
general metrics and these are the ones
that I came up with
you can come up with your own list for
your lives but these are the ones that
resonate with me some of them come from
the world happiness report of 2017 some
come from a book called beyond religion
by the Dalai Lama but it begins with
this mutual trust as we become a people
who trust one another we see faith
beginning to grow after that shared
purpose once we trust one another we can
find a shared purpose and live together
no matter what
we say we believe in this leads to
generosity a generosity of spirit and a
generosity of soul so that the world
might be a place where peace of mind
reigns beyond conflict this peace of
mind gives us time in our lives when we
don’t have the same sort of anxiety and
certainly the same sort of anxiety about
our neighbors or our neighborhood we
begin to become a more compassionate
people and that compassion always leads
to hope innovation and design thinking
can help us move from faith as an idea
or a concept to the manifestation of
purpose if faith is our search for the
purpose or our existence innovation and
design is how we connect to and manifest
purpose through ideas and or products so
what we’re talking about is a designed
faith and we will move quickly a design
faith starts and must have a process to
get us towards those metrics and so in
three minutes let me see if I can give
them to you the first thing we have to
do is begin to uncover this is the
desire and ability to look at your
life’s narrative and connect it with who
you are to discover the metric you are
looking for and see how it works in your
life is to uncover the problem or
trajectory we are looking to move
towards uncover and then we prepare and
we have a we have a saying in my work in
our church our saying is this prepare
never plan as we don’t know where the
iterative process will take us and we
certainly don’t know in our lives of
faith it is important to prepare for
where we might go not plan for where we
should
go we look for patterns and symbols that
mean something we uncover them and we
uncover the why of them and we continue
on after we prepare and after we have
set the foundation of where we want to
go in our trajectory we begin to consume
and we begin to consume a vast and
varied amount of information this is
where you have to take on a myriad of
things because wisdom and inspiration
requires learning or at least the
consumption of ideas and practices and
it needs to be across the board the best
experience I have ever had I should not
say that it’s not the best experience
the weirdest experience I ever had was
picking up a knitting magazine because I
wanted to read something different when
I got on a plane that’s different and
you all assume I don’t knit I don’t but
the point being I was reading this
knitting magazine learning lots about
things I will probably never use the guy
next to me was fascinated I gave him the
magazine at the end of the day consumed
because once we consume and we are
inspired and we are motivated we can
begin to create this is where we
experiment we explore and we envision of
what our lives of faith might be and we
don’t do this alone people of faith are
not lonely people of faith come together
in community through this creation we
begin to manifest see what is becoming
from the previous work that we’ve been
doing take a metric test are you leaning
into those things that we talked about
before or the process is moving you in a
different direction evaluate what’s
going on in your life and change it if
it is not working and in fact this is
the very next point
fail fail fast but always fail forward
prototype in your life of faith and see
what works iterate around what doesn’t
and see if that ideation in that
ideation you might be able to create a
better process to try and become a
person that values faith and lives in to
manifest those ideas that we say are so
core to who we are in any form of faith
there’s going to be a simple matter of
trust and that fits in the process
as well simply this trust your instincts
if it isn’t you it isn’t right we
shouldn’t hold on to what doesn’t work
user interface has to be natural it has
to be natural on your phone why wouldn’t
it be natural in your life of faith as
well and lastly as you do this as you
iterate as you work your way through
then you take a look and you say hey how
can I share this with people because we
learn from one another we tell the world
as we make sense out of it and sometimes
we’ll still make the road by walking on
it as Brian McLaren says but we share it
and this is not proselytization for a
particular kind of faith rather this is
the invitation through mutual trust to
find shared purpose together I thought
I’d just read the last sentence here a
design faith perhaps means a more
trustful world a world where generosity
is bigger than scarcity and jealousy
were shared purpose transcends tribal
and cultural boundaries where compassion
is the deepest and most sought-after
value where peace of mind is assured and
where hope becomes the way finer and the
anchor point of our lives a design faith
can bring us to these things if we’re
willing if we’re willing to pair the
most innovative thinking with some of
the most oldest faith that the world has
ever seen and I don’t know to me this
sounds like it would be a good book
thank you guys
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