Writing
On Public & Private Griefs
The ones we share are at the surface. The ones we keep private are deeper still.
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New episode: On Religious—and Post-Religious—Burnout, with the REVcovery podcast
An IMG crossover show
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✍🏻+ 📱WIRED | "Neal Stephenson Named the Metaverse. Now, He's Building It
I have no idea what to make of this.
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✍️RNS | "Jules Woodson and tech exec team up to help abuse survivors get therapy and heal"
Jules Woodson, an advocate for abuse survivors, is launching a new initiative to help survivors obtain therapy access, as reported at RNS: “The nonprofit will fund six sessions of counseling for abuse survivors through a partnership with Thriveworks, a counseling practice that provides in-person and online therapy. Survivors can get
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❌ New episode: Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, author of On Repentance and Repair
This week’s guest is Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, author of the new book On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World. This show is not typically interfaith, but when the opportunity to read Rabbi Ruttenberg’s latest arose, I leapt at the chance. I’ve followed her on
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🎙️PEP Talk: On the notion of "solidity"
and how social media has the capacity to overextend us.
Writing
Recommended Reading: Sarah Posner at The Nation
"The Southern Baptist Convention’s Deal With the Devil"
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📱#exvangelical approaches 1B impressions
I opened TikTok today, and the current impressions for the #exvangelical hashtag stand at 985M views. It is on track to surpass 1 billion impressions in September 2022. I wrote about it on Twitter, where the hashtag started - and the rest of the thread is below: #exvangelical is on
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From the Archive: Sam Perry & Andrew Whitehead discuss Christian Nationalism
Show notes: While I continue to work on my manuscript, here is another archival episode for you. This is from my series, Powers & Principalities. Season 1 was published in 2020 and focused on Christian nationalism, which remains painfully relevant. This episode features a conversation with Sam Perry and Andrew
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📚 Remembering Frederick Buechner
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✍🏻+ 📱 Wired | This Man Set the Record for Wearing a Brain-Computer Interface
There’s a really interesting article at Wired about long-term patients with BCIs (brain computer interfaces). This is a far cry from the neural lace imagined by Adrian Hon in A New History of the Future in 100 Objects, but these are making tangible differences in the lives of people
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A Short Audio Test
Exploring Substack's audio features. Lmk your thoughts.