Building through relationships: a strategy for the post-crisis crisis. — Since founding Praxis, we’ve talked about a thirty-year vision for the organization. Today, we can look back on a full decade of results, as our very first Accelerator program concluded in April 2012. In the past ten years so much more than we ever imagined has happened; yet we feel…

Deepening our ability to serve Praxis ventures. — For 10 years, building ventures through our Accelerators has been at the core of our work at Praxis. As we cross into a second decade of work in advancing redemptive entrepreneurship, we want to deepen our ability to recruit, serve, and support Praxis ventures, from the Accelerator experience to ongoing…

By Dave Blanchard, Praxis CEO & Co-Founder What we require is not intellectual theorizing or even preaching but a demonstration.— Elton Trueblood, Alternative to Futility This year has weakened and wounded everyone. We’ve lost the embodied presence of our church communities, the “normal” rhythms of our organizational lives, and the…

A Letter to the Praxis Community — It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one…

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was…

Entrepreneurship and the redemptive mission of the Church. — To love our neighbors as ourselves, and to winsomely demonstrate our faith in the world, the Church must recover our legacy of being redemptive builders, social innovators, and technological leaders. Friends & co-laborers: As we end another year, it’s a joy to share our team’s reflective conversations, emerging ideas, and…

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. ― C.S. Lewis Perhaps the most concrete way we at Praxis have experienced God’s faithfulness over the last seven years is the provision of great people to build with. At every key moment of…

A year for redemptive entrepreneurship. — A common startup axiom says that you don’t really figure out what business you are in until you’ve been going for a few years. For Praxis, 2017 was that year. Friends — Last year’s Praxis community letter set our work in the context of the spirit of the age. Post-election…

Cultivating an alternative imagination for ventures and their impact. — At Praxis, we believe the future of culture depends largely on the next generation of entrepreneurs. Founders are culture makers, artists of a unique flavor with the opportunity to paint on a blank corporate canvas. We are at a unique moment in history where more entrepreneurs have disproportionate influence on…