HeyJaredTheodivergent
Michael's Substack includes writing across a variety of genres about faith, humanity, and love.
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Livingston Learning Center Courses (opens the original)
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The first course is Vampires and the Ethics of Desire. Check out The Livingston Learning Center. I created a new spot specifically for courses to reduce the number of posts. This is totally a Theodivergent Course though! <img alt="a pers
Year of the Panda - August (opens the original)
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In this post, I’m going to try to answer a strange question: Can a panda have a calling? I have spent much of this Year of the Panda thinking about what pandas might teach us about being human, but lately I have wondered whether purpose belongs only to creatures capable of asking about their purpose. Nazarenes have traditionally spoken of sanctification… Read more
The Creative and Philosophical Process of the Story Splinters (opens the original)
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Splinters: A Short Story (opens the original)
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Orthocardia for the Regular Folks (Formerly the Dummies Guide, but that's a GenX thing). (opens the original)
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