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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 • Pete Hamm
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 • Pete Hamm
The Geography of Śānē'
Why the unneighborhood is not an accident
May 16 • Pete Hamm
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 • 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 • Pete Hamm

April 2026

The Pirenne Pivot
Chapter 3 of The Moral Hinge — a book in progress
Apr 18 • Pete Hamm
If you’re new here, start here.
The Moral Hinge
Apr 10 • Pete Hamm
Where the Ledger Ends: A Report from the Hinge
Moving from "buffered" to "porous"
Apr 8 • Pete Hamm
The Maximum Hinge
The Day the Ledger Broke.
Apr 5 • Pete Hamm

March 2026

The Broken Highway
When the Mediterranean Closed
Mar 30 • Pete Hamm
The Porous Self
When the World Leaked In
Mar 26 • Pete Hamm
The Sources
A Bibliography for The Moral Hinge
Mar 25 • Pete Hamm
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