Where's the Good Stuff this week?

Friday 10/31/25 roundup of what I've discovered on Substack

Oct 31, 2025

‘Good Stuff’ = blog posts 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

‘All Hallows Eve: Personality Inventories’ by Tripp Hudgins. ‘the enemy in any system is usually ourselves’. That will preach.
‘Communion of Ordinary Lives’ by Br. Andrew-Thomas OSB. Ordinary holiness.

Church stuff

‘A Place To Create Good Memories of Church’ by Tanner CR. A beautiful story of joy.
‘Stay or Leave? When Churches Can’t Relate to Their Denominations’ by Mike Turner. I truly believe we are moving into a post-denominational world. This article gets into the why and the how of that.

Other stuff

‘An Exciting Announcement from Inkwell’. This is a fascinating new way of thinking about local community, creativity, and faith.
‘Required Reading (and watching, eating, etc.): October Edition’ by Kate Bowler. Because she has a way of talking about everything that isn’t ok, in a way that makes you feel like it’s going to be ok anyway.

What I wrote this week:

‘What my running group taught me about church’. The agile, networked, interconnected community model can build ministry and discipleship in a way that traditional congregational ministry can’t.
‘Hearts up!’ Daily orientation towards God at Trexo: a gym for your soul.

And finally…