Substacks recommended by Elias Crim

Recommended by Elias Crim

Religion, the arts, philosophy, culture... ...Foliis tantum ne carmina manda, ne turba volent rapidis ludibria ventis...

Window Light

By Matthew Shadle

Expert analysis on the fields of Catholic theology and ministry, explorations of historical theology, commentary on current events, and theological and spiritual reflections.

What could be more valuable for thoughtful American Catholics today than to have a sane and deeply informed commentator like this public theologian?

- Elias Crim

The Process/Practice Dispatch

By The PPS Dispatch

The PPS Dispatch is our way to capture, share, and make sense of what we are seeing and hearing within different places and communities. These signals resonate with us & inform our work focused on creating resilient organizations, communities, and places.

The Main Street Journal

By Michael Shuman

A hub for news about local investing

The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

Writing Home

By Dougald Hine

A series of letters and essays from Dougald Hine. Turning aside from the one big path that was meant to lead to the future, no longer in service to its promises, asking what else is worth doing with the time we have.

Davos V. Theos

By Jim Kucher

Reconciling the tensions between Economics and Theology, with a few rabbit holes along the way.

Some fresh winds of innovative thinking blowing here, just when church leaders are realizing they need the fresh air! Insightful and needed!

- Elias Crim

Toward Solidarity

By Nathan Davis Hunt

Notes on reweaving an engaged spiritual life of communion, care, and collective liberation. A community for muddied mystics stumbling toward the abolition of plantations, rekindling our humanity, and creating worlds where it is easier to love.

Gracious and righteous reflections at the intersection of liberation theology, social justice and community-building, with names like Paulo Freire, Madeleine L'Engle, Howard Thurman, Alicia Garza, and James Cone popping up along the way. Gratitude!

- Elias Crim

The Anchored Argosy

By Susannah Black Roberts

Alastair & Susannah Roberts' freight of wonders

People's Policy Project

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In Japan, living citizens can be acclaimed "national treasures." This project's team should be similarly recognized!

- Elias Crim

Rushkoff

I write about how we can sustain our humanity in a highly digital world.

He hasn't written a book about gardening or bowling but I would probably buy either. A marvelous guide to this moment in the funhouse of surveillance capitalism--he's humane, funny, self-critical. I'm on his team.

- Elias Crim

Galileo's Ghost

By Ricardo Simmonds

Overcoming conflicts in religion, science, technology, policy and environment.

A wonderful newsletter at the intersection of Catholic theology (especially of the ressourcement variety), climate science (the author just finished a PhD in the subject), and more!

- Elias Crim

Wear We Are

By Michael & Melissa Wear

From Michael and Melissa Wear, Wear We Are offers original analysis, exclusive interviews and curated news and content about faith, politics and public life.

A valuable window into the conversation today among civic-minded Christians hoping not only to rescue their "brand" but galvanize it toward the common good!

- Elias Crim

Roundtable

By Jerry Windley-Daoust

News and conversations about the Catholic Worker Movement.

𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃

By Matthew Franklin Cooper

'There is none who understands or seeks God. All have turned aside; together they have become useless.' (Romans 3:11-12) This Substack is a continuation (sort of) of the blog The Heavy Anglophile Orthodox, but with an emphasis on Scripture and poetry.

Cracks in Postmodernity

By Stephen G. Adubato

Cultural commentary that gives precedence to aesthetics and ontology over ethics and politics.

A unique zine in which somehow the Catholic Worker vibe intersects with a wonderful menagerie of brilliant sketchiness, impossible to describe.

- Elias Crim

Michel’s Substack: Fourth Generation Civilization

By Michel Bauwens

My personal Substack for sharing articles and structured curation on the theme of the emergence of a commons-centric civilization.

Simply one of the best thinkers on some of the most important issues we face at this moment.

- Elias Crim

On Wichita, the Mittelpolitan, and More

By Russell Arben Fox

Thoughts on my home city of Wichita, my home state of Kansas, mid-sized cities in general, and really anything else that occurs to me which I think is worth sharing. Enjoy!

A blast of sanity about politics, cities, and social regeneration!

- Elias Crim

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend

By The Rarebit Fiend

Occasional essays on literature, poetry, movies, and culture by the author of THE LAST WORDS OF JACK RUBY, a historical noir novel about the lifelong friendship between the notorious assassin and my cousin, the boxer and war hero Barney Ross.

A deeply reflective reader on his favorite subjects of poetry, movies and culture. His prose is a joy to experience.

- Elias Crim

The Elysian

By Elle Griffin

Exploring utopian futures through long-form essays and collaborative print pamphlets. Join us to get the Manifesto!

The Convivial Society

By L. M. Sacasas

Thinking about technology, society, and the good life.

Ivan Illich, Neil Postman, Jacques Ellul are all gone but this author's reflections invoke their wonderful spirits--highly recommended.

- Elias Crim

The Marigold Effect

By Pooja Mehta

insights on financial activism for a just economy. strategies for building strong, values-driven organizations. a digital archive of inspiring people, places, and ideas.

A terrific newsletter at the intersection of impact investing and social justice, written by a savvy attorney/entrepreneur--what a combination!

- Elias Crim

Relational Tech Project

By Josh Nesbit

The Relational Technology Project (RTP) builds and supports builders of village-scale tools that strengthen relationships in neighborhoods. We'll share stories from the emerging ecosystem of relational technology here.

This brilliant project is about imagining and then building small systems that are human scale and human-centered--i.e., they're not about achieving scale or efficiency or control. Highly recommended!

- Elias Crim

Connective Tissue

A newsletter on the connections, communities, and commitments that bind us together.

A thoughtful and well-informed new conversation around community, offering links to quality research, articles, and terrific projects-on-the-ground you hadn't heard of before!

- Elias Crim

Mosley's Marginalia

By David Russell Mosley

Essays on classical education, literature, culture, and the Catholic Faith

Here's a gracious oasis of literacy in which Dante, Chesterton, and McDonald are likely to come up. A delightful recipe!

- Elias Crim

Waymakers

Inspired by the skill, spirit, and the example of Jesus, Waymakers forms peacemakers through transformative training and constructive engagement with conflict.

Wisdom of Crowds

We are against consensus. // An ideas collective and debate platform co-founded by Damir Marusic and Shadi Hamid.

A wonderful ongoing and open conversation among a little group of well-informed friends with essays, chats, video podcasts, live episodes, and curated debates. Consensus is not sought here: it's about getting clarity on the fundamentals we rarely explore.

- Elias Crim

Housing is a Human Right

By Fran Quigley

A free newsletter about the historic struggle to ensure a home for all

Fran Quigley may teach law but he has the instincts of a terrific journalist--which is why his writing is a pleasure read. His newsletter is an inspiration!

- Elias Crim

Tender Buttons by Rebecca Mqamelo

By Rebecca

Writing from liminal spaces – technology, creativity, alternative economics, womanhood.

I love writers whose posts offer the reader surprises—Rebecca’s are a continual delight!

- Elias Crim

Reflections by Samantha Rose Hill

By Reflections by Samantha Hill

Reflections on art, culture, literature, philosophy and politics

Wonderful and often brilliant writing from a millennial intellectual whose lightly worn learning will remind you of an older generation.

- Elias Crim

Notes from the Middleground

By Damon Linker

Analysis and criticism of the antiliberal right, social-justice progressivism, and cultural topics

Sweet Unrest

By Renée Darline Roden

imagine if Keats had a newsletter

One of my favorite reads!

- Elias Crim

Trials

By Sarah Ball

We write the stuff we'd want to read.

This is the Substack home of Sarah Ball with her cheerful descriptions of bizarre fellow Greyhound riders, pilgrims going to all kinds of phantasmal shrines or maybe nowhere in particular. She's practicing for a book which I cannot wait to read.

- Elias Crim

Current Affairs News Briefing

An entertaining and thorough digest of the week’s most important news stories, from one of the country’s leading independent political magazines.

Desiring Life

By Samuel Ewell

I'm Sam Ewell, and this newsletter is a space for sharing reflections on experiences, inspirations and wisdom around what is life-giving to us and to what is worth giving our lives.

Here's a door into a private garden of spiritual insights and regenerative practices, tended by a wonderful spirit of the place, Sam Ewell. Nourishment here.

- Elias Crim

actually existing barbarism

By Madoc Cairns

Missives, essays and notes on the new dark age, already upon us: and on what, if anything, comes next.

Cairns, improbably young though he is, is a man out of time. His stylish prose evokes figures like Patrick Leigh Fermor or even at times Hilaire Belloc. He constantly surprises.

- Elias Crim

WANDERINGS

By Kate Tyson

Radical possibilities in business and economics from Kate Tyson of Wanderwell.