One Week In, and What's Coming?

One week in to this substack experience! For several months, several friends encouraged me to do it; and now that I have, I’m grateful to see it was the right decision to start putting my work from the last five or six years out there into the world!

And I’m humbled to join and (re)connect with so many of you, most of whom are already my friends or students. Substack is a great medium for interacting, so I look forward to doing so in comments!

This week I released a goodly number of posts–my favorite was Metaphor, the Essential Guide. But what’s coming down the pike?

Mondays and Wednesdays will be my regular posts (already pre-scheduled!). Mondays are the Sound in Faith video series, where we comment on Thomas’s commentary on the Apostles’ Creed. Tuesdays are some theology blogpost–both small series, and one-offs. First up is a short run on senses of holy Scripture: what are they, why are they important, and so on.

In addition, I plan to issue plenty of random drive-bys–like my shower thoughts from yesterday, Our Mother, Who Art in Heaven. That distinction between founding relative names upon action versus power is crucial, and really does the job.

So that’s what you can expect from me. What about you?

• If you’re already a paid subscriber, thank you, genuinely, for your support (and from many of you, your messages of support). You’re going to make or break this thing in the long term.

• If you’re a free subscriber, thank you also!, as I’m excited for all my readers. But would you genuinely consider upgrading? I know that everyone today is making a bid for your dollars (and the price of eggs, my wife tells me, is crazy!); but if you like my work and want to see it flourish, $10 a month is the way to contribute, and will land you behind the paywalled posts.

• If you’re my wife and still haven’t subscribed, then honey, maybe you ought to actually do that already.

But enough of that. I’m off to finish prep for my Maimonides class this morning. God bless you all and especially during this Lenten season!

PS. Here’s one of my favorite modern paintings—by Autumn de Forest: