Archive - You Are Not Your Own Substack

Listening to Secular Music

How I Went from a Fundamentalist Homeschooler to Whatever I am Now

Nov 18 •

Love of What is Timeless as a Response to Chaotic Times

How clinging to timeless things can help us flourish even as chaos fills our timelines

Nov 15 •

Hoping All Things for the Next Administration

How to pray for a unjust ruler

Nov 11 •

The Light of God Reflected in Us

Concluding Eliot's "Choruses from The Rock"

Nov 8 •

Politics as the Elimination of the Other

A pre-election call to hope

Nov 4 •

Creativity, the Arts, and Gifts as Service to God

Eliot on serving with body and spirit

Nov 1 •

October 2024

Curiositas and the David Platt Documentary

Do we need to know everything? No.

Oct 28 •

The First Step in Recovery from Mental Illness is Desire

An uncomfortable truth about suffering

Oct 25 •

What My Next Book is All About

Re-Collecting Your Life: an introduction

Oct 21 •

Is Christianity a Religion of Sorrow or Joy?

Eliot responds to critics of Christianity

Oct 18 •

The Subtle Ways TikTok is Toxic

Why TikTok should never be used

Oct 14 •

I Was Homeschooled and Turned Out Fine

On my experience of being homeschooled in the 90s

Oct 11 •

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