Where's the Good Stuff this week?
Friday 6/05/26 roundup of what I've discovered on Substack
‘Good Stuff’ = articles 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
‘Beloved Authenticity’ by Tyler Hill. ‘Sanctity, for Merton, was not about becoming someone else. It was about becoming who you already are in God.’
‘Let’s Talk Money’ by Jen Pollock Michel. ‘A rule is about ultimate concerns—about deciding what does and does not matter in this life as illumined by the next. And maybe this is why we don’t want to be talking about money. Like the Rich Young Ruler, we grow sad that God should ask so much of us.’
Church stuff
‘The Commodification Of Christianity’ by Freya India. ‘The awful truth of it, I have to be honest, is that I put off going to church because I know that I can. I’ve got my phone.’
‘A Too Small Life’ by Pastor Sierra Ward. ‘You are witness to this life.
It was life so small that it took over a month for anyone to notice. A life so folded in on itself that there is no one to even grieve, truly for her, the loss of her, the hole she left in their life. She left no holes in anyone’s life. That’s a choice.’
Other stuff
‘Sometimes…’ by Chloe Hope. ‘Poets, mystics, children and sages have, for centuries, pointed towards our attention as being inseparable from our love.’
‘A Behold! Walk’ by Amy Hoppock. ‘Beholding is transformational. What I see, experience, and feel has a pathway into my soul’
What I wrote this week:
‘Ask Father Cathie’ - I didn’t really ‘write’ this - it’s my monthly advice live stream. Usually just for paid subscribers, it’s open to everyone while I’m upgrading.
This week’s question:
‘Should I take a $2,500 annual stipend for a chaplain job?’
From St. Paul’s, Salisbury:‘Why doctrines matter: they’re invitations into mystery’. ‘Doctrine is the shape or our beliefs. And that shape is always a triangle.’
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