Christians agree on this much: whatever else we are, we’re not fine—and we can’t fix ourselves; today’s Deep We essay faces sin and the need for redemption head-on. open.substack.com/pub/judsonta...

Kierkegaard saw music—especially Mozart’s Don Giovanni—as the purest expression of sensual and spiritual genius, arguing that true art unites the right creator with the right idea and touches the eternal in a way no other medium can. www.themarginalian.org/2020/05/05/k...

Listen to “Voiles” tonight with the lights low—then tell me music didn’t change in 1900. open.substack.com/pub/judsonta...

Kierkegaard challenges Hegel’s system, insisting that true faith isn’t found in the universal but in a solitary, paradoxical relationship with God that places the individual above the crowd. medium.com/@aakashpydi/...

The FBI has warned police departments in California that Iran wants to retaliate for American attacks by launching offensive drones against the West Coast, according to an alert reviewed by ABC News. abcnews.com/US/fbi-warns... PPP

The FBI has warned police departments in California that Iran wants to retaliate for American attacks by launching offensive drones against the West Coast, according to an alert reviewed by ABC News. abcnews.com/US/fbi-warns...

Art can awaken a sense of the sacred, but as Mark Dooley argues, Roger Scruton’s Kantian “intimations of the infinite” ultimately leave us spiritually homeless—because only religion, not culture, can truly reconcile us to the divine and bring us home. www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/02/97225/

New post today on how followers of Jesus can respond to people’s deepest longings with simple, faithful presence. open.substack.com/pub/judsonta...

It was actually back in 2015 that our country was first divided.

A university librarian says our shrinking attention spans aren’t proof that screens are destroying literacy but evidence that today’s digital platforms are deliberately designed to fragment focus. aeon.co/essays/what-...

“What the airlines are basically doing with these changes is telling the basic economy traveler we don’t value you or your business. The actions will not induce many of these travelers to become loyal.” washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/...

Tomorrow’s post explores the real motivations beneath human behavior and how everyday discipleship speaks directly to them.

The U.S. is the only place Pew Research surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

Late rising. Long writing. Long walks. Deep faith. open.substack.com/pub/judsonta...

New essay: Kierkegaard’s desk was modest—his inward battles were not. open.substack.com/pub/judsonta...

If you think you can “rewire” your brain in 10 minutes a day, this neurologist has some uncomfortable news: your mind isn’t a circuit board—it’s a forest, and forests don’t change overnight. aeon.co/essays/what-...

What if fascism doesn’t arrive with marching boots but with quiet shrugs—one small compromise at a time—until you wake up and realize you’ve become “a good German”? www.bostonreview.net/articles/tur...

This is a drift that’s been quietly underway for years, and it runs deeper than the usual critique. relevantmagazine.com/culture/musi...?

New essay: Francis of Assisi and the simplicity we keep avoiding. open.substack.com/pub/judsonta...

B.C. will adopt permanent daylight time after March 8, 2026—ending clock changes but potentially causing time confusion for WA travelers, Canadians heading south, and even between B.C. and the rest of Canada (though Arizona already does its own thing). www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why do we admire Jesus so easily—and obey him so rarely?

Spotify is not becoming obsolete because people will stop listening to it. It is becoming obsolete as a business model for artists. And more importantly, Spotify is currently shooting itself in the foot by refusing to adapt. open.substack.com/pub/joelgouv...

In the age of livestreams and viral posts, journalism’s greatest strength—careful verification—may also be its weakness, as the gap between real-time social media and slower, rigorous reporting increasingly erodes public trust. theconversation.com/journalism-m...

Kierkegaard read the New Testament as a personal summons. “When you read God's Word,” he said, “you must constantly be saying to yourself, ‘It is talking to me, and about me.’” —Søren Kierkegaard open.substack.com/pub/judsonta...

New essay: Kierkegaard read the New Testament as a personal summons. open.substack.com/pub/judsonta...

The hardest part of Scripture isn’t understanding it—it’s obeying it. open.substack.com/pub/judsonta...

The artists who will survive the next five years are the ones who are quietly shifting their focus away from the “ATM Machine.” They are building their own cultural hangars. open.substack.com/pub/joelgouv...

What if Scripture is a mirror, not a manual?

US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house. www.reuters.com/world/us/nea...

From Charlie Brown’s dread to Snoopy’s search for meaning, Peanuts shows how a simple comic strip quietly wrestles with existential questions about suffering, hope, and what makes a life worthwhile. philosophynow.org/issues/172/G...

A Canadian study found that expert birdwatchers, including older adults, showed denser brain tissue and stronger activation in regions linked to attention, memory, and perception. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

New post: Communication isn’t finished when we speak. It’s finished when we understand how others are hearing us. open.substack.com/pub/judsonta...

Boudry makes the case that constantly yelling “fallacy!” might actually make us worse thinkers—and that real-world reasoning is way more nuanced than logic class made it seem. www.persuasion.community/p/why-i-stop...

Whatever you do, do it with joy.

Orcas have been called monsters, mascots, and avengers—but our shifting stories about killer whales reveal far more about human fears, hopes, and guilt than about the animals themselves.

A single nasal spray vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, as well as bacterial lung infections, and may even ease allergies, say researchers. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Despite ongoing talks, the White House has been briefed that the US military could be ready for an attack by the weekend, after a buildup in recent days of air and naval assets in the Middle East, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/w...

Wisdom rarely means having all the answers; more often, it means taking the next faithful step with the light you have. open.substack.com/pub/judsonta...

The real threat of AI in higher education isn’t cheating—it’s the slow erosion of the struggle that actually forms thinkers. theconversation.com/the-greatest...

New research shows "inoculating" people through warnings or games helps them spot political deepfakes, though I continue to assert that blind faith in a utopian future of AI is misguided.

Karl Popper argued that Plato’s vision of a rigid, “closed society” helped lay intellectual groundwork for totalitarianism—and that the only safeguard is fallible, open-ended public dialogue.

Gig Harbor officials are closely watching a proposed state bill that could force the city to provide its own homeless shelter before enforcing any camping bans. www.gigharbornow.org/news/governm...

From Genesis to Colossians, Christians confess a God who makes and sustains all things; today’s essay asks what that shared belief does to our view of the world. open.substack.com/pub/judsonta...

Boredom researcher James Danckert says the viral “Do Nothing” challenge gets boredom exactly wrong—and that forcing yourself to be bored isn’t restorative so much as a misunderstanding of what your mind is actually asking for. nautil.us/why-the-do-n...

Love is more than a feeling; it’s a virtue that helps promote others’ well-being. open.substack.com/pub/theconve...

Sounds really exhausting to be connected with Turning Point. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Sam Kahn argues The New Yorker has lost the humane, curious spirit that once made it great and has become a glossy, elite, celebrity-driven magazine largely disconnected from real people and new voices. www.persuasion.community/p/how-the-ne...

Bonhoeffer is often treated as a symbol or slogan, but this thoughtful review of Bonhoeffer for the Church argues that when we rediscover him as a pastor and guide, his vision for the church becomes both more challenging—and far more useful—for our own time. www.christiancentury.org/books/pastor...

I’ve been reading and watching George Will since high school—back when he was a regular on ABC’s This Week with David Brinkley—and his latest column argues that Vice President JD Vance’s coarseness and flippancy say something troubling about the state of our political culture. wapo.st/4rkMveW