To identify problems of organized complexity, Timothy Patitsas, a theologian who builds upon Jacobs’s work, paraphrases a heuristic from urban ministry practitioner Douglas Hall: “The question is, are you dealing with a toaster or a cat? . . . Can you take it apart and put it back together? It’s a toaster. If you take it apart, do you belong in jail? That’s a cat.”242
Hahahaha that metaphor will stick
