The last time my family visited New York City, we stopped by a board game coffeehouse. We played Pandemic, which allowed the three of us to work together to stop widespread disease from taking over the planet. It took a bit of skill and a bit of luck, but we did it. We supplied the world with the vaccine to stop disease, panic, death and destruction. We left the coffeehouse as heroes.
I’m in San Francisco. Or, technically, I’m in San Anselmo at San Francisco Theological Seminary, which is a jewel. It is one of the most stunning landscapes of learning I can imagine. But apart from the inspiring space, SFTS is also launching a Center for Innovation in Ministry this week. They are not only harnessing their aesthetic geography, but their intellectual geography as well, taking advantage of being in the pulsing center of our nation's digital wellspring.