I’m twenty-seven. Pretty much right at the front end of the millennial generation. Now though we millennials are a very diverse group, something I hear about us all the time is that we are innovative. Apparently there are entire conferences out there dedicated to celebrating millennials’ entrepreneurship and innovation. I’ve never been to one of these things. Honestly, I can imagine hating it. But I am a big believer in innovation. Not the kind of ignorant innovation that ignores rich traditions and basic historical facts, but the kind of critical thinking that understands root problems and moves decisively to address them. Bold innovation that is risky, that fails, that gets dirty, but keeps trying again and again. Innovation has always been a part of the church. The alphabet for modern Russian and other Slavic languages was the innovation of missionaries. Cyril (hence Cyrillic script) and Methodius showed up in the 9th century and there was no written language. So they made it up! They innovated. For our part, InFaith has been involved in innovation in the church since our very beginning. We began as the American Sunday School Union. We formed after a Philadelphia bishop visited England in the late 1700s. There he saw an incredible innovation led by Robert Raikes. Raikes was teaching children, who were working in factories six days a week, how to read. They met on Sundays and Raikes called his school, Sunday School. This innovation was a part of the development of public school systems in England and the U.S. People of the church saw a need, moved decisively to meet the need, and introduced a new idea. They innovated. The very fact that we have had three names in our history suggests that InFaith is not afraid of innovation. We have lasted for 200...