Where's the Good Stuff this week?

Friday 2/06/26 roundup of what I've discovered on Substack

Feb 06, 2026

‘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

‘Do It Scared’, by Thea Curry-Fuson. ‘I’m no longer praying for confidence; now in the face of this new adventure, I pray for courage’.
‘My Daughter Died’, by Jamie S. Harper. ‘I could stay in bed all day, but I get up to be with God. He gets me out of bed.’

Church stuff

‘To Fill the Church with Wonder’ by Mike Turner. ‘I was transfixed by the scene, lost in the moment. The still, cold air. The silence more eloquent than any sound. The cloud sailing across the heavens carrying a secret flame. Only a divine power could carve out such beauty in the night.’
‘Formed for Faithfulness (4): When We Lost Our Story’ by Mark Clavier. ‘Faithfulness meant inhabiting tradition responsibly, trusting that what had formed us might also form those who came after us. This temporal confidence has frayed. Anglican history is now approached in sharply divergent ways: by some as a compromised legacy to be escaped; by others as incidental to an appeal to Scripture unmediated by tradition.’

Other stuff

‘A Guileless, Unguarded World’, by Terrell Johnson . ‘What I hear when I read these lines is more melancholy, a sigh of sadness. For an innocence that’s been lost, and for a world that feels far, far back in the rear view mirror.’
‘How Long Should This Sentence Be? Bad Question’ by Joel J Miller. ‘We can all groan with the anticipation of reading prose as exciting as boneless, skinless, unadorned, microwaved chicken breast. Never mind that White didn’t even follow his own advice; Simon mentions a sentence in his beloved children’s classic Stuart Little that runs an ambitious 107 words.’

What I wrote this week:

‘Your church will not be here in 2031’. ‘The traditional congregational model assumes independent ‘islands’ of full-service, in-house religious ecosystems. That’s not the way the world works anymore. That’s not the way the church works anymore.’
‘Those who are “without a shepherd... pen themselves up in their own sheepfolds.”’ ‘We cannot be Christian alone. Jesus called disciples from the very beginning, and we always learn to be followers of Jesus by being in community with others. For encouragement, support - and correction.’

And finally…