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What should I be writing about? (Poll inside)

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Beau Stringer
Dec 30, 2025
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I’ve been writing into the void for a while now, and I need to know if anyone’s still out there. Not in the desperate way. More in the honest way. The way you’d ask a friend across the table, “Are we good? Are we still tracking together?” Because here’s the truth about writing a weekly newsletter for people on different faith journeys. You’re never entirely sure what’s landing.

What I Think You Need vs What You Actually Need

Here’s my confession. I make a lot of assumptions about what matters to you. I think about the questions I had when I was leaving evangelicalism, the gaps in my theological education, the things I wish someone had told me sooner. So I write about empire theology and biblical interpretation and why the gospel isn’t primarily about getting into heaven when you die. I write about progressive Christian thinkers who helped me and scriptures that took on new meaning when I stopped reading them through an evangelical lens.

But you’re n…

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