Where's the Good Stuff this week?
Friday 2/20/26 roundup of what I've discovered on Substack
‘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
‘Love Your Enemy...even when I don’t wanna’ by Brooks Cato. ‘Those ashes remind us that nothing here is permanent, maybe not even humanity’s tendency to fall under the thrall of fear and anger and greed. People, systems, philosophies, hatreds die.’
‘What quitting coffee taught me about God’ by Ben Christenson. ‘Over time, I found that it’s nice to fast as a community, but also, it’s surprising how many of your problems can be solved obliquely.’
Church stuff
‘When Churches Refuse to Talk About the End’ by Loren Richmond Jr. ‘In hospital chaplaincy, I see what happens when families don’t talk about limits. They carry unbearable weight because no one gives permission to say, enough.’
‘Why Replicate When You Can Reimagine?’ by Jim Keat. ‘What would you create if you were starting from scratch—knowing it would live entirely on YouTube? Or Zoom? Or Substack? Or wherever people are actually gathering online?’
Other stuff
‘A father's diary of grief: Day 16’. ‘…we are not done transforming experiences into memories. We will carry that feeling of loss everywhere we go, but we can pack it up with our sunscreen and garishly colored garments and take it places we’ve never been.’
‘And Then My Phone Buzzed’ by Sam Robinson. ‘For now, we’ve settled on a situation in which interruptibility is a necessary condition for modern life.’
What I wrote this week:
‘This is what you can do to help the church’. ‘It was on a training run this weekend that I realized I need to remember the thing I tell everyone else. The thing that God tells me: You are not alone.’
‘Follow us as we follow Jesus’. ‘How to become formed in the Christian faith by practicing the way of Jesus within our context … and create new digital pathways for membership.’
And finally…
Thanks for shout, Cathie!
Wow, thanks for the plug!