Where's the Good Stuff this week?
Friday 3/27/26 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
‘People are Stories’ by Dennis Sanders. ‘The God who created us saw people as who were storied, people who were filled with volumes and chapters of life.’
‘The joy and hope of a repair cafe’ by Janette Parker Platter. ‘There is beauty in the commitment to reducing, reusing, and recycling. But for me, the real gift is in the human connection and generosity of time that says, “You are good and deserve good things. How can I help?”’
Church stuff
‘The Silence at the Altar’ by Fr. Bliss Spillar. ‘When you stand at the altar, you do not stand only with those who are visibly present. You stand within the prayer of the whole Church, with the saints and the faithful departed, with those scattered across time and place, and indeed for a world that does not know how to pray for itself.’
‘An Obituary for the United Church of Christ?’ by Anthony Robinson. ‘Denominational leadership has met this reality with a combination of denial, wishful-thinking, doing what we’ve always done only more single-mindedly and even self-congratulation.’
Other stuff
‘What Punk Taught Me’ by Chris Hoff. ‘What I took from punk, and what I’ve carried ever since, is that coalition doesn’t get built through shared agreement on aesthetics or ideology. It gets built through a shared commitment to something real.’
‘The Babylon Effect’ by Kursat Ozenc. ‘In this biblical story [the Tower of Babel], people are building toward the sky together — until their language splinters. No one can understand each other anymore. The project stops. They scatter. Something structurally similar may be happening in digital products right now.’
What I wrote this week:
‘How my ministry became ‘Cage Free’’. ‘So I proposed another possibility …
what if we designed a new way to serve ministry together, that best supported everyone sharing the Gospel with minimal stress?’‘Staying awake with Jesus in Holy Week’. Jesus asked his disciples to stay awake with him for one hour. They couldn’t do it - at least not yet. But we’re called again to try… Join us for virtual Vigil at the Altar of Repose.’
And finally…
