Substacks recommended by Frank Schaeffer

Recommended by Frank Schaeffer

The New Glossary

By Samir Selmanović

Grounding and inspiration for ordinary mystics

A Wounded Healer’s Journal

By Paul Dazet

Reflections on hope, healing, and transformation by Pastor Paul Dazet.

Many Such Cases

By Magdalene J. Taylor

A dissection of sexuality and culture in the absence of much of either.

The Hartmann Report

By Thom Hartmann

A Daily Newsletter of Renaissance Thinking about Progressive Politics, Economics, Science, and the Political News Issues of Our Day

Essential Reading during these turbulent times. Thom Hartmann cuts right through the noise to get to the truth.

- Frank Schaeffer

The Christian Left

Since 2009, An Open Ministry for Christian Progressives and Their Allies. Discuss Current Events. Enjoy Fellowship. Take Action.

Scratch

By Kate Cohen

Scratch is a column that celebrates human agency in a culture awash in cheap consumer goods and A.I. It's about creating — instead of buying or simply accepting — the stuff, nature, and purpose of our lives. It's about what we make that makes us human.

The Porch - Gareth Higgins & Friends

By Gareth Higgins

A slow conversation about beautiful and difficult things - transformative storytelling since 2016.

Tia Levings, Writer

I'm here to help you understand Christian fundamentalism in the news, religious trauma, and trad wife reality so you can avoid the pitfalls and reclaim the future. 📚 NYT Bestselling author of A WELL-TRAINED WIFE and I BELONG TO ME

I Love Tia Levings. What more is there to say? If you want to understand the times we are in, Tia Levings, Writer will help you.

- Frank Schaeffer

Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Diagnosing a world in crisis while finding means and strategies for a better, realer, more human future.

I love talking to my friend Jared Yates Sexton as much as I love reading his fresh takes on America and our place in it.

- Frank Schaeffer

The Contrarian

Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy

I'm Listening

By Rev. Angela Denker

Step away from the noise. Take a breath. Join me as I listen.

Postliberal Order

By The Postliberals

Based interventions on philosophy, culture, economy, law, theology and the postliberal order.

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Heather Cox Richardson's daily writing is essential reading for anyone who wants to know the current status of America.

- Frank Schaeffer

Generation Tech

By Jean M. Twenge

Psychologist and author Jean M. Twenge shares the latest research on teens & social media, generational differences, and trends in mental health -- plus tips for finding a better balance with technology.

Patterns by Naomi Klein

Intellectual scaffolding for our age of serial shocks and deliberate discombobulation

Thinking about...

By Timothy Snyder

Opening the future by understanding the past.

America, America

By Steven Beschloss

Essays of alarm and hope, on politics and society, democracy and justice. With passion and urgency.

The Boogaloo: America’s Smoldering Second Civil War

By Keri Ladner

Just How Close is America to Another Civil War?

Persuasion

By Yascha Mounk

The community for those who believe that a free society is worth fighting for.

The Good Society

By Michael Albertus

How politics can fuel or fail democracy, development, and equality

If you want to understand how the past still owns us, Land Power is your essential read. Michael Albertus unearths the global history of who controls the ground beneath our feet, how they got it, and why land—not tech, not capital—is still the bedrock of inequality and political power. Sharp, revelatory, and disturbingly relevant. This one will change how you look at everything from eviction to empire.

- Frank Schaeffer

Proof

By Seth Abramson

Know Better.

JUDGEMENT

Two former freelancers united in JUDGEMENT

MADE WITH CARE

By Elissa Strauss

A newsletter and community for people who dream of a world in which parenting and caregiving aren’t only valued and supported, but treated with the curiosity and fascination they deserve.

Leta Selmanović

My Personal Substack

It Has to Be Said.

Recommended by Frank Schaeffer