This gets played throughout the house in the early am on weekdays. And I can control the volume on each device from my phone. @whamofficial #wakemeupbeforeyougogo

God does not need to be protected by your anxiety. Love is sturdier than that.

If devotion has become exhausting, it may be time to ask whether it is still rooted in grace.

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The Weight of a Tender Conscience Is it ever possible to care too much? A personal reflection. open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #Faith #anxiety #growth

Here are our 25 most-read essays from 2025. Let us know your favorite! Tags: @christhiessen.bsky.social, @lizcharlottegrant.bsky.social, @jasongedwards.bsky.social, @texasbishop9.bsky.social, @mwatsonfore.bsky.social, @markglanvillejazz.bsky.social, @alexdemarco.bsky.social

Balancing the Flame of Faith (a devotional from Hebrews 12: 1-3 open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #devotional #prayer #faith #olympics

I thought I would share this poetry series with you again. It imagines the gospel story if it were to happen in modern America and Jesus was an immigrant. substack.com/@jasongedwar...

Storm Psalm (a poem) #winterstorm #poetry #snow #ice substack.com/@jasongedwar...

Strive for faithfulness. Pursue wisdom. Act with care. Offer grace. Even then, you will be misunderstood.

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Every policy has a body somewhere in its shadow.

When power moves through communities like weather, the question is never whether damage will happen…only where it will land.

If a system requires fear to function, it will always need someone to be afraid.

After every storm…literal or otherwise…what remains are the exposed places. They ask us the same old question: who will tend what’s been laid bare?

“By afternoon, a glove lies stiff in the road…still shaped like a hand that was reaching.”

Storm Psalm A poem for these days. #poem #poetry #psalm #prayerhttps://open.substack.com/pub/jasongedwards/p/storm-psalm?r=3mfciq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I’ve reached the stage in parenting where I can’t seem to beat my teenage son in Madden. And he’s a real trash talker. 🙏🏼

The God revealed in Christ does not avoid the world’s wounds. That tells us something about how healing actually works.

Just sitting here on my day off sipping coffee while attempting to add a quiet, clarifying little passage on wrath to the justice chapter in my book. 😬

Training with Purpose open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #Faith #Growth #Formation #Devotional

I offered this "Prayer for Universal Peace" aloud this morning at Liberty’s MLK Day service. I share it here with gratitude for the community that gathered, and for the life, ministry, and witness of Martin Luther King Jr. #MLKDay open.substack.com/pub/jasonged...

Sharing this opportunity one more time at the deadline for any emerging Senior Pastors out there: www.2bcliberty.org/jobs-at-2bc Pastoral Residency Opportunity Second Baptist Church seeks to hire a full-time Pastoral Resident to serve and learn with our congregation for 2-3 years…

What a privilege to have written this piece honoring Walter Brueggemann last year, which I’ve just learned was the 6th most read article for the Christian Century in 2025.

The empire of money, war, and fire cuts across the land. There are in the same country shepherds watching their flocks. —Wendell Berry

For these days... A meditation and prayer open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #blessing #meditation #prayer #faith #comfort

Receiving the Flame of Faith (Devotional) 2 Timothy 1: 3-14 open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #devotional

For these days… substack.com/@jasongedwar... #blessing #prayer #grief #hope

The powers of this world depend on our forgetting who we are. Grace keeps remembering for us.

Some of the most important battles in our lives do not look like battles at all. They move quietly through habits we have learned to live with and systems we no longer question. Scripture gives them many names. Grace keeps finding them and loosening their grip.

My latest piece for Good Faith Media: goodfaithmedia.org/how-politics... #politics #religion

Jason Edwards writes: "When fear guides us, democracy begins to crack. We cannot cherish the common good while treating our neighbors as enemies. We cannot sustain a republic without relationships." Read more: ow.ly/TYXA50XTpXJ

Talking with Yeats on the Far Side of Bethlehem I’ve been holding on to this one for a while. Now seems as good a time as any to share it. Let me know what you think. #Yeats #Poetry open.substack.com/pub/jasonged...

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Between Two Worlds: Stranger Things, the Powers, and Purple Rain Spoiler Alert for the Stranger Things Finale. Some reflection here on Stranger Things, the Christus Victor theory of atonement, and other light things. #StrangerThings open.substack.com/pub/jasonged...

Sharing this ministry opportunity again because we are nearing the application deadline. Second Baptist Church seeks to hire a full-time Pastoral Resident to serve and learn with our congregation for 2-3 years. More here: www.2bcliberty.org/jobs-at-2bc

Merry Epiphany!

May you discover, slowly and kindly, that realness is born where love abides. As the years touch you, as the heart grows tender through joy and grief, may the shine that once sought perfection give way to a deeper radiance—the beauty of one who has been faithfully held.

May you trust that the Holy One did not arrive as one merely passing through, but as One willing to learn the weight of a human body, the ache of longing, the gift of friendship, the cost of compassion. (1/2)

May you discover, slowly and kindly, that realness is born where love abides.

May you sense, in the marrow of your being, that God has chosen to dwell within the ordinary rooms of the world: the kitchens filled with quiet conversations, the long corridors of worry and weariness, the tender spaces of laughter and tears. (1/2)

A Christmastide Blessing open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #Christmas #Christmastide #prayer #blessing #benediction

I’m surprised, honored, and encouraged to learn my essay “The Absolutely Absurdity of a Christian Nation” was the 3rd most read Plough article in 2025. @plough.bsky.social www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

A Christmastide Blessing for you #christmas #christmastide #prayer #blessing #benediction substack.com/@jasongedwar...

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Merry Christmas! When Love Stays open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #Christmas