Self-professed followers of Jesus the Messiah on Nostr. Protestants, Roman Catholics and Orthodox welcome. (No LDS or JWs)
On April 19, 2026, I ran a simple but revealing experiment: create and sign a note offline on one machine, move it physically, and publish it from another. No cloud. No sync service. No account login. What happened wasn’t just a workflow—it was proof of a different model for authorship.
Why Americans are nearly working themselves to death and all they have to show for it is bigger trucks.
The hireling runs. That is the only fact Jesus gives you about him. He sees the wolf coming, and he runs. The sheep scatter, the wolf takes what it wants, and the hireling is already down the road. Jesus does not tell you the hireling's reasons. He does not need to. The man ran. That is his whole character, stated in a single act. Set that figure next to the Good Shepherd, and you have the entirety of the Gospel for this Sunday: He stayed.
Trusting God when everything seems to be going wrong
Some work is finished before it is complete. This piece explores the difference between completing the work itself and seeing the results of that work—and why learning to be satisfied in that gap is essential.
When the pressure to prove something fades, the work does not stop—it becomes clearer and more grounded. This piece reflects on meaningful progress, including recent Continuum releases and foundational improvements, done without striving but not without purpose or responsibility.
Rest is not about stopping activity—it’s about ceasing from striving. This piece explores what it means to continue building, writing, and creating without the burden of pressure, while letting the weight of labor fall away.
Modern tools make it possible to build small sovereign applications extremely quickly, enabling a new model for software development.
Continuum is for people and organizations who need durable authorship, self-custodied identity, and a local-first publishing workflow. It is especially well suited for writers, journalists, researchers, human rights activists, ministries, and developers who want to create, preserve, and publish work without depending entirely on centralized platforms.
At first glance, Continuum may appear unnecessary to people who already write documents locally on their computers. After all, anyone can open Word, Markdown, or a text editor and save files in a folder. But Continuum is not merely a place to store documents. It is a local-first authorship and publishing system built around identity, verifiable authorship, durable archives, and intentional distribution. This article explains why the difference matters.
Zipcar, Uber, and Lyft promise convenience but leave us vulnerable to breakdowns and opaque rules. By imagining a decentralized alternative — built on peer-to-peer listings, portable reputation, and Bitcoin payments — we can see how transportation could become more resilient, transparent, and sovereign.
stop mining for hashrate and start mining for the heats
An exploration of how AI can serve as an amplifier for builders and writers without displacing human authority. This article argues for a sovereignty-first approach to AI, where ownership, authorship, and identity remain centered in the individual.
In Part 1, I described the architecture behind a decentralized publishing pipeline using Nostr, GitHub Actions, and GitHub Pages. In this follow-up, I walk through what it actually took to get that same pipeline working again in a new repository — including authentication issues, workflow permissions, and the small but critical details that make it all run automatically.
Last summer, I built a decentralized blog using Nostr, GitHub Actions, and GitHub Pages. I’m now taking that same idea and applying it directly to Continuum — turning tagged articles into a live, automatically updating site with zero manual publishing steps.
You want joy without the terror of standing before the God who raises the dead. Or you settle for dread with no hope of mercy. The women leave the tomb with both, and Matthew does not apologize. He tells you: this is what the resurrection does. It gives you fear and joy together, because the One you meet at the empty tomb is both Judge and Savior, both Holy God and your Brother.
Faith is born from the breath of God. The pneuma of Christ fills us. We live. We believe. We are blessed, because we have not seen and yet we have believed. The Spirit has breathed. The word has raised us. We stand. We confess. We live in His name.
A reflection on how the recent build, packaging, and distribution work is helping Continuum better embody the principles laid out in *Building Continuum: Local Authority in a Networked World*.
