🔗 Linking

✍🏻 Audio Insurgent | "Does Podcasting Lack A Middle Class?"

Well worth a read if you are curious about the difficulty of making a living wage as a podcaster if you are not in the top .5% to .01% of podcasts. (Exvangelical, fwiw, is in the top 1%.)

Character & Quirks

Last Friday, my grandmother passed away at the age of 95. She was a steadfast woman in every sense of the word. I'm still processing the news, and I'm not sure how to effectively or appropriately eulogize her in a public venue like this. We will

Trump's Unholy Week

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Blake Chastain (@brchastain_) Last week, as Christians around the world celebrated the culmination of Holy Week on Easter Sunday, Donald Trump, acting President of the United States, began observing his what I call "Unholy Week." Unsatisfied with the mindshare

Don’t Let This Slide.

Yesterday, Trump threatened to annihilate an entire civilization. He backed off, because that’s what he does. (🌮) And I’m glad for that - because it means we avoided a nuclear winter. But he meant what he said, because he always means what he says. And he should be held

Reading Notes

At the beginning of the year, I wrote about what I'm focusing on in 2026 - that whole piece is linked here, but the salient point is that I'm now posting about things beyond 'deconstruction-oriented' topics. As part of this expanded/inclusive new framing,

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Character & Quirks

Trump's Unholy Week

Don’t Let This Slide.

Reading Notes