A shared vision for “Safer Together” helped transform how police departments across York County worked with one another. This excerpt from Unlikely Good tells the story of how that vision became the York County Safety Collab.

Most people believe collaboration is the answer. Fewer understand why it becomes so difficult once real people, pressure, and competing visions enter the room.

Some sons inherit money. Some inherit stories. I inherited a father worth becoming like.

Why do you want to step into this work? Why this issue? Why now? Motivation matters more than we want it to, because only the right kind of motivation will carry you when the work becomes costly.

Leaders today are expected to speak into almost everything. A headline breaks, a crisis unfolds, and the question comes quickly: Are you going to say something?

But not every moment is yours. And if you don’t decide what deserves your voice, the world will make that decision for you.

A Guest Blog from my good friend, Pastor Aaron Kunce. 30% of people ask questions of the people around them and are persistently curious about others. They are Illuminators. The other 70% might be perfectly nice people, but they don’t ask questions. They are Diminishers.

Collaboration is hard. Here are 13 reasons people use to justify collaboration.

It is no secret that leading as an outsider in York County can be a challenge. There is an unseen graveyard of outsiders who burst onto the scene and crashed and burned here.

The vast majority of us want to become better employees. Have you ever considered that one tactic toward that end is to pray for your co-workers?

Surely there is some person in York County whose voice is a nuisance to you.

York County has not always been the easiest place to love. Our family’s move to York in 2004 from Raleigh, North Carolina was a bit of a culture shock.

The public does not often get to hear the stories of men and women serving as ministers, exemplars of the Christian faith, who make their communities better.

I am not talking about spotless saints, but humble leaders faithfully living out their calling to serve their communities with God’s help.

Like most other US cities, York has complex challenges. Fixing York will require more than just talk. Another branding campaign will not solve the crisis. Public statements, banners, and flowery flourishes on our websites will not affect the kind of change we need.

Each of us needs schools to teach, hospitals to heal, police to protect and serve, government to order civic life, and places of worship to lift our hearts to a higher purpose.

2022 is going out with a bang in the Anderson household, or rather, with a thud and a crack! My sweet, 16-year-old daughter, Amelia, took a hard spill at the rollerskating rink that fractured her left wrist.

I had intended on writing a reflection piece about 2022. I never realized that a 10-hour stint in the ER would provide inspiration.

“Help me understand” is the kind of slow, gentle, loving language that has the power to take your relationships from where they are today to something far more rewarding and fulfilling tomorrow.

We are Safer Together. A sermon from Romans 12:9-16 about the strategy we employ to build a safer, more loving community.

Could it be that both Republicans and Democrats finally agree that a child’s ZIP code, ethnicity, or class should not determine whether they have access to a high-quality education?

From the People You Should Know podcast: If we are honest, getting to know complete strangers can be scary. In our debut episode, we had the honor of talking with the CEO of Logos Academy and Logos Works, Aaron Anderson. He talks about networking in this episode and how if he could give people one thing it would be the ability to network and get to know people.

Go ahead and cancel me for maintaining these friendships with my neighbors. These are people God has called me to love without exceptions or excuses.

Sorry. I'm not canceling my neighbor.