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What the Practices Actually Look Like
Moving from diagnosis to description — the concrete habits of communities that never accepted the ledger's authority.
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The Body the Ledger Cannot Replace
The tradition's alternative to managed distance has always required physical presence. That was never incidental.
Jul 4
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June 2026
The Ledger and the Face
What the tradition lost when it stopped requiring presence and settled for payment.
Jun 27
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What Recovery Would Actually Require
Naming the displaced question is the easy part. Here is what it would cost to ask it again.
Jun 20
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The Question That Was Always There
How the tradition moved the most urgent question in Christian life from the center to the margins — and what it cost.
Jun 13
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I Am Writing This on Severance
On the economics of Christian faithfulness, and the ledger that doesn't wait for you to leave it on your own terms.
Jun 6
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May 2026
The Church That Stayed
A reader’s challenge revealed a blind spot in the argument — and a witness the book cannot afford to miss.
May 30
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The Distance We Manage and the Distance We Close
A reader's pushback revealed a blind spot in the argument — and a corrective the book needs.
May 23
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The Geography of Śānē'
Why the unneighborhood is not an accident
May 16
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Pete Hamm
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The Algorithm Knows Your Loneliness Better Than Your Church Does
The market has always offered a competing liturgy. What’s new is how precisely it has learned to read you.
May 10
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Pete Hamm
The Word We’ve Been Avoiding
What the Bible actually says about how we treat the poor — and why it’s harder to hear than we think.
May 1
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April 2026
The Pirenne Pivot
Chapter 3 of The Moral Hinge — a book in progress
Apr 18
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