HeyJaredLearning to Love
A guide through the wilderness. Here you'll recognize yourself, gain clarity and rekindle hope in God's enduring love. Weekly tools & testimony grounded in Scripture & orthodox theology. Together we're learning to love via God's process of transformation.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 5
- Latest publication
- Aug 21, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 4, 2026
Latest issues
I Wasn’t in the Wrong Place, I Just Couldn’t See (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I hated the world, I hated my job, I hated my life.I couldn’t see it then, but I hated myself.I spent years being angry at everyone and everything. I tried every way to improve my life, to follow all the “rules,” but all I found was frustration and failure.In between my frantic search for success, I spent my time escaping. Basically being anywhere but in my actual life.That is until I had kids – twins – and could no longer hide.This is my story and my reason for writing - that those who are lost
Why Digital Content Has Become Soul-Sucking Slop (opens the original)
Read excerpt
We are overwhelmed by an overabundance of information, causing existential dread on social media.Why is Substack’s new AI evaluation tool triggering so much angst amongst both authors and readers?I get why authors, who have spent years honing their craft, don’t want to be pushed aside by a machine.I also understand why those who have developed their AI partners don’t want their work labeled as “Fully AI-assisted.”1But mere labelling doesn’t explain the partisan polemics. Instead, the question is
Our Odyssey (opens the original)
Read excerpt
A face . . . A fleet . . . A war . . . A man . . . A thought . . . A trick . . . A trick to break the walls of Troy and burn it screaming to the ground!I am become death, destroyer of worldsNow God is deadAnd I—have killed him<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qqcj!,f_auto,
What is the Church? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
It’s Sunday morning. I pull into the old Sportsman’s Warehouse parking lot, next to the Walmart. Except it’s no longer a Sportsman’s Warehouse – they shut their doors 6 years earlier. Now it’s a massive church, though it doesn’t look like it. Clean lines, right angles, matte gray. If it wasn’t for the large “Church” sign, it would look like any other big box store.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9PoJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:st
What is America? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
On this 250th anniversary of America, I find myself torn.On the one hand, this milestone feels ominous. It seems to me, with our current political climate, it does not bode well. There is something cosmic about it, as there always is in the American story.On the other hand, I feel a sense of longing. Not for an idealized past, but rather for something lost. I’m searching for the true story of America. I’m searching for the American spirit.Subscribe nowGrowing up a
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.