Where's the Good Stuff this week?
Friday 5/15/26 roundup of what I've discovered on Substack
‘Good Stuff’ = articles I’ve read this week that inspired, educated, entertained, or moved me.
Which for a Free Range Priest, means reading more amazing, inspiring things about God, the church, the universe, and running.
Here’s this week’s roundup:
God stuff
‘Piece by piece’, by Almut Furchert. ‘But we all know deep faith comes slowly, and it needs time to grow. If it does not, it is not growing. Healing is the same’.
‘The Other Shoe Doesn’t Have to Drop’ by A.J. Swoboda. ‘Sudden disaster may come, but it must not become the thing that controls our lives.’
Church stuff
‘The Hidden Danger in Becoming Orthodox That Is Rarely Talked About’ by Kenneth B. ‘…there is often an unspoken assumption beneath all this activity, that Christianity is something to be figured out, rather than something to be lived.’
‘The Hypothetical as Apocalyptic’ by Gino Curcuruto. ‘I contend that our violent social imaginary has stunted our imagination for creative nonviolence.’
Other stuff
‘The Bird on the Windowsill’ by Barbara Caver. ‘A small round head with a tiny beak and bright obsidian eyes looks at me, then turns its head to watch the cherry blossoms on the front slope of the apartment building’s lawn flutter in the warm breeze.’
‘Dispatches Del Camino’ by Sean Dietrich. ‘my favorite saying of all: “Dime con quién andas, y te diré quién eres.” Tell me who you walk with, and I’ll tell you who you are.
What I wrote this week:
‘AI is a gift to the church.’ ‘It’s why I think the church should see AI as the gift it is. It can do so many things - not all of them good, of course. But what it can’t do is the one thing we proclaim is the most valuable power there is: LOVE.
We need God for that’.
From Trexo:We don’t have to ‘go’ to church. Maybe we’re called to practice our faith even when we’re not ‘in church’. Maybe we can re-capture the idea of prayer, worship, and practice is the enter of our lives - wherever we are, and whatever we’re doing.
From Substack Seminary (and written by Loren Richmond Jr.):‘Sustainability isn’t the same thing as faithfulness’. ‘ Yes, I believe in trusting God. Yes, I believe faith sometimes requires risk. But as others have said:
“God invented math.”
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