Where's the Good Stuff this week?
Friday 2/27/26 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
‘The Cost of Getting Closer to God’ by Sarah K. Butterfield. ‘Our whole life is an opportunity to grow in intimacy with God, and to live in worshipful response to God’.
‘What the Heart Wants’ by Jake Owensby. ‘Having desires is not the problem. Our challenge is that we do not begin life knowing what truly deserves our deepest love.’
Church stuff
‘Studying the Past to Cure an Unacceptable Present’ by Griffin Gooch. ‘Generation by generation, Christians are forced to learn—often the hard way—that our endless patterns of wanting cannot be satiated by anything this earth has to offer.’
‘We had an Epiphany!’ by The Average Episcopalian. ‘We would also like to issue an official apology to the liturgical season of Epiphany for sleeping on it for much of our young adult lives.’
Other stuff
‘How far back in time can you understand English?’ by Colin Gorrie. ‘Go back far enough, and English writing becomes unrecognisable. Go forward far enough and the same thing will happen, though none of us will be around to notice.’
‘The School of Adulting’ by Scot McKnight. ‘One of the hidden geniuses of a healthy church body is young people learn how to be adults from men and women who have figured out a lot of things about how to live a life that matter.’
What I wrote this week:
‘This work is never finished.’ ‘I’ve grown to appreciate my own heedless optimism - my sense that of course I have endless time and energy. But of course I don’t. And I have even less when my body is revved up before I even open my eyes.’
‘We’re only human’. What would have happened if Adam and Eve had stayed in the Garden of Eden?… they would have gotten bored! …‘Ho-hum another day in paradise…’
And finally…
Thanks for the shout out. I always look forward to hearing about new reads to explore
Looks like a great roundup! Thanks for including me in it!