I find that to endure life, one needs to cling on to simple moments of joy which are given by God to remind us that life is a comedy, not a tragedy. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/on-finding...

On Finding Joy

Clinging to moments of joy amidst difficult circumstances

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A short, unlocked article reflecting on how to deal with wanted and unwanted sexual thoughts. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/how-to-tre...

How to Treat Sexual Thoughts

Without shame

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How do you deal with the loss of friends? newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/on-the-los...

On the Loss of Friendships

And changing seasons of life

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National data on English majors puts them as some of the least religious. But my discipline has fed my faith. Read more: newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/on-being-a...

On Being a Religious English Major

Despite the odds

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I'm a bit confessional here. Sometimes when people pray, I have a hard time paying attention. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/how-to-dea...

How Do You Avoid Cynicism and Distraction During Prayer and Worship?

What do to when cynicism and distraction affect you

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Today I wrote about the decline in speech. We just don’t talk as much anymore. Why and what might that explain? newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/why-we-nev...

Why We Never Speak to Each Other

And what to do about it

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How I've navigated secular therapy as a Christian newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/how-ive-wo...

How I've Worked with Secular Therapies

Why you can't stop being discerning

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It feels awful to catastrophize. But how can you stop it? newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/what-to-do...

Carl Trueman, @oalannoble.bsky.social, and James R. Wood spoke at The Sustaining Revival Conference last week. Watch all Keynotes here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=enGY...

In the Image of God - Carl Trueman

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I know it’s been written about a lot, but I decided after last week’s post to share my experience and give some thoughts on purity culture in relation to creational design of sex and the body. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/where-we-g...

Where We Go from Purity Culture

Reflections on growing up evangelical in the 90s

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Here’s another post preaching to myself. What does adulthood look like? Silently bearing up under loads. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/adulthood-...

Adulthood as Silently Bearing Up Under Loads

Accepting the burden without folding in on yourself

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This was an interesting piece for me to write: The Secret World of Alex Mack, AOL chats, Eros, and Josef Pieper. inkwellct.substack.com/p/the-intern...

The Internet is a Second-Rate Lover

Getting your eros in order

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Good thoughts here from @oalannoble.bsky.social about the reality of agency contra the incessant narrative of AI inevitability and communal measures to buffer ourselves against AI’s adverse effects open.substack.com/pub/oalannob...

How to Not Be Overwhelmed By AI News

Having hope in a wide open future

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I wrote about the creational design of sex, the body, marriage, procreation and how that should shape the way the church talks about sexuality and gender. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/the-beauty...

The Beauty of the Creational Design of Sex

And how the Church should talk about it

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Coming up: Aug: Gary Schnittjer on 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 Sept: @oalannoble.bsky.social on 𝘛𝘰 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭: 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 Oct: @bonniekristian.bsky.social on 𝘐𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘈 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘐𝘵𝘴 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴

Watch @oalannoble.bsky.social’s Keynote at The Sustaining Revival Conference: www.youtube.com/live/gho3Ecw...

Christianity and the Good Life - Alan Noble

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This Friday’s free post is all about how not to be overwhelmed by AI news. Preaching to myself a bit. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/how-to-not...

How to Not Be Overwhelmed By AI News

Having hope in a wide open future

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"To practice the virtue of love in the contemporary world means fighting to keep your attention focused on what is worthy of your love." @oalannoble.bsky.social, 𝘛𝘰 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭

Why don’t we seem more cross-generational mentorship? Maybe because life moves too fast now and we don’t think older people are aware of what’s going on. Hartmut Rosa on acceleration and "wise elders": newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/the-crisis...

The Crisis of Mentorship as a Consequence of Acceleration

As everything sped up, we left the wisdom of the elderly behind

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Today’s post is all about what prodigal rest looks like. Not rest that is meant to recharge your batteries, but superfluous rest in the delight of God. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/prodigal-s...

Prodigal Sabbath Rest

Learning to delight in the overflowing grace of God

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"Hope does not deny the reality of suffering, but only its final power." Read more from 'To Live Well' author, @oalannoble.bsky.social, at @plough.bsky.social: https://www.plough.com/articles/hope-lives-on-when-optimism-dies

Hope Lives On When Optimism Dies | Plough

Hope is a practice that we cultivate with the confident belief that Christ is making all things new.

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Today's post is all about the accelerating pace of life and the need to step out of time to survive. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/the-pace-o...

The Pace of Daily Life is Unbearable

And everyone wants us to accelerate

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A good word from @oalannoble.bsky.social: “We were sold one vision of social media and the Internet, and then that content was used for another purpose and sold back to us.”

Pillaging of the Digital Commons

How AI companies took everything public (and private) and sold it back to us

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When we first started posting on social media, we had no idea we were generating free content to train AI models. But that’s exactly what happened. I think that’s kind of weird. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/the-pillag...

Pillaging of the Digital Commons

How AI companies took everything public (and private) and sold it back to us

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One of the things that can haunt you when you have a mental affliction and are a parent is: what if I mess up my kids? This post is about that question. In reality it’s a question every parent asks. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/how-to-par...

How to Parent While Suffering from Mental Affliction

Fulfilling one of your primary duties even under duress

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If we have an answer machine, does that make us more curious or less? And if less, then what will that do to us as humans? newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/what-happe...

What Happens When No One is Curious?

When we reach the "end of our exploring" and we don't arrive where we started from

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Today’s paid subscriber’s post is all about the tension between pursuing the human potential God designed us for and acknowledging our limits and our fallenness. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/striving-f...

Striving for Human Excellence

While accepting that you are still a fallen sinner

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In a world of indecision, we need prudence. Check out my latest book on how "To Live Well" in the modern world. bookshop.org/p/books/to-l...

Does birthright citizenship mean the end of America? What are we do to with these pseudo-existential threats to our country? These are the questions I deal with in this unlocked post. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/beware-the...

Beware the End of America!

On pseudo-existential threats and the need to work-through

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I was excited to join my friends at the @trinityforum for a discussion of To Live Well. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf_J...

To Live Well in a Chaotic Time

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