Friday Morning
1The letter the five points were mined from, read whole — sixteen chapters, each with its key verse, Karl Barth at the desk, discussion questions, and a cloud of witnesses; printable one chapter to a page. A companion within the TULIP study.
Personal
6Sixteen verses on treasure, the single eye, mammon and anxiety, taken word by word in the Greek — with Evagrius, Chrysostom, Augustine, Calvin, Wesley, Bonhoeffer, Merton and Willard at the desk, and five questions answered plainly: what the verb behind “do not worry” actually forbids, whether the body is inside it, and what the kingdom turns out to be.
A distillation and indexing of everything Jesus himself said — the kingdom announced, the commands, parables, warnings & promises — heard on their own terms, without bringing in Pauline interpretations.
A study of the coming Kingdom of God and what the Bible wants us to know — the prophets’ hope, the already & not-yet, the resurrection of the body, and the renewal of all things.
The contemplative tradition read first-hand rather than through its modern interpreters — whole texts, set to be actually read. On the shelf: Dionysius’s Mystical Theology and Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on Ecclesiastes, complete, a chapter to a page.
The month-long retreat a wounded Basque soldier wrote at Manresa and spent twenty-five years revising — complete in Elder Mullan’s 1914 English from the Spanish autograph. All four Weeks, the Annotations, the fifty-one Mysteries, and every set of Rules, unabridged. No commentary, no verdict: the text, whole.
The rules that shape a community’s prayer, work, possessions, and life together. Begin with the Franciscan Order: the approved rule still professed today and the surviving earlier rule of Francis of Assisi.
Tools
2Walk through the church’s year across traditions. Begin with Advent and Christmas 2026: the fasts, the four Sundays, the Nativity, and the January feasts in Eastern Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant life.
Twelve forks in the church’s long road — authority, grace, the table, the water, the saints — each side stated at its strongest. Answer all twelve and be named a tradition, from Rome and the East to Wittenberg, Geneva, and Azusa Street. No verdicts; your answers stay in your browser.
The whole desk, cut small enough to carry — every page here on the phone, and nothing fetched to read one. The early church made its books miniature so they could be taken along; this is that, for this desk.
Church history, TULIP, intercession, stigmata, In the Empire, and the orthodoxy reference table — off the desk and onto the shelf. Every page still lives at the address it always had.