Coming Soon: The Paid Edition

Some Notes and Previews

This is the last week of the semester, with my oldest’s birthday thrown on top for good measure, so the 23rd Psalm will continue on this weekend (fingers crossed.) It’ll be worth your wait.

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Next week, I’ll also be launching the paid version alongside the free version. In the paid version, there will be some goodies:

—a monthly zoom book club/ Happy Hour

—commentary on news-related items. As you’ve noticed, I’ve shied away from doing that in the free version, to focus on more foundational kinds of questions, but there’s a place for in-the-moment comment as well.

—a slow walk through some classic works in Christian Ethics, chosen by members of the paid group.

The paid version will appear weekly (?) as well, or at least aspirationally so. The overlords of Substack mandate a 5$ monthly minimum, which is what I’m staying with. But as a way of trying to keep to my original promise, there’s an option for paying yearly for a discounted rate closer to the original 3$ promise.

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Reading: George Hunsinger’s Eucharist and Ecumenism. As I prepare for a summer of writing, this is giving me good food for thought, to dig into some of the conditions which both make church unity possible and impossible. Ivan Illich’s Tools for Conviviality, which is the most contrarian book you’ll read this year on how work and education happens, and how a society collapses under the technocratic vision of the Elon Musks of the world. Illich is the man. Shepherds After My Own Heart, by Timothy S. Laniak, for deciphering why all the shepherds in the Old Testament. John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism, because I’m ostensibly an ethicist, and it’s long past time to read this.