O. Alan Noble
@oalannoble.bsky.social
Author: #YouAreNotYourOwn, #OnGettingOutOfBed, #DisruptiveWitness. Assoc. Prof Eng., OBU. Fellow, Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. Bald, PCA.Substack: https://newsletter.oalannoble.com/
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can't fully express how grateful i was for this dispatch from @oalannoble.bsky.social. i'd recommend reading if you find yourself circling the same moral/theological Qs with increasing anxiety, or beyond the answers you can find.
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Tips for Living with Scrupulosity
Thinking through Religious OCD
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November 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
can't fully express how grateful i was for this dispatch from @oalannoble.bsky.social. i'd recommend reading if you find yourself circling the same moral/theological Qs with increasing anxiety, or beyond the answers you can find.
newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/tips-for-l...
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By reader request, I wrote out some tips for living with scrupulosity, which may be a little niche, but for those who it affects, it should resonate deeply. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/tips-for-l...
Tips for Living with Scrupulosity
Thinking through Religious OCD
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November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
By reader request, I wrote out some tips for living with scrupulosity, which may be a little niche, but for those who it affects, it should resonate deeply. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/tips-for-l...
I wrote about the role of the Christian intellectual in a secular, distracted age. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/the-fight-...
The Fight to Recover What Has Been Lost
On the work of the modern Christian in an age of secularism and distraction
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November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I wrote about the role of the Christian intellectual in a secular, distracted age. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/the-fight-...
I wrote about gratitude for CT: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/how-...
How To Practice Gratitude (Even When You Don't Feel It) - Christianity Today
Excitedly one Christmas I ripped off a present’s wrapping paper. I hoped to see one of those video games you could get at Blockbuster in the ’90s, like
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November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I wrote about gratitude for CT: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/how-...
I wrote about a touchy subject. Antidepressants and over-prescription among youth. What role could mentorship and therapy play in helping young people? newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/ssris-and-...
SSRIs and Resilience for Young People
Are we over prescribing SSRIs because we aren't mentoring young people?
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November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I wrote about a touchy subject. Antidepressants and over-prescription among youth. What role could mentorship and therapy play in helping young people? newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/ssris-and-...
Impostor Syndrome. Everyone seems to have it. How do you live with it? I recount my experience and give some advice. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/so-youre-a...
So You're an Impostor. Now What?
On living with impostor syndrome
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November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Impostor Syndrome. Everyone seems to have it. How do you live with it? I recount my experience and give some advice. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/so-youre-a...
I wrote about choosing to trust our neighbors in a low-trust society. Subscribe and read! newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/hoping-all...
Hoping All Things in a Low Trust Society
Why we should learn to trust each other again
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November 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I wrote about choosing to trust our neighbors in a low-trust society. Subscribe and read! newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/hoping-all...
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This resonated deeply with me.
I wrote about why you should be a playful father (if you are a father) and the theological implications of play. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/on-being-a...
On Being a Playful Father
Even when feel the weight of the world on your shoulders
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November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This resonated deeply with me.
Virtues need community to be cultivated. So what are we to do when our community isn't loving and virtuous? newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/how-to-be-...
How to Be Virtuous Against the Grain
What to do when your models of virtue are vicious
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November 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Virtues need community to be cultivated. So what are we to do when our community isn't loving and virtuous? newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/how-to-be-...
I wrote about why you should be a playful father (if you are a father) and the theological implications of play. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/on-being-a...
On Being a Playful Father
Even when feel the weight of the world on your shoulders
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November 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I wrote about why you should be a playful father (if you are a father) and the theological implications of play. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/on-being-a...
I wrote about the challenge of being known and the risk of being exposed. Subscribe and read! newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/on-being-k...
On Being Known
The challenges of exposure
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November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I wrote about the challenge of being known and the risk of being exposed. Subscribe and read! newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/on-being-k...
I wrote about acknowledging and living out responsibilities and why we tend to be hyper-responsible or irresponsible. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/on-knowing...
On Knowing Your Responsibilities
And turning things over to God
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November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I wrote about acknowledging and living out responsibilities and why we tend to be hyper-responsible or irresponsible. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/on-knowing...
I wrote about the well-worn slogan that we're all just "doing our best" and what it practically means in our lives. Subscribe and read! newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/on-just-do...
On Just Doing Your Best
Living in the space between excuse and ideal
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November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I wrote about the well-worn slogan that we're all just "doing our best" and what it practically means in our lives. Subscribe and read! newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/on-just-do...
I wrote about mass deportations: newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/on-authori...
On Authoritarian Immigration Policies
ICE and mass deportations
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November 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I wrote about mass deportations: newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/on-authori...
I wrote about the quest for wellness and how it cannot save you: newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/wellness-c...
Wellness Cannot Save You
How Wellness and Mental Health can be confused with the Gospel
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October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I wrote about the quest for wellness and how it cannot save you: newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/wellness-c...
I wrote about the possible shift from individualism to crowd identity. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/the-shift-...
The Shift from Individualism to Mob Identity
A thought experiment
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October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I wrote about the possible shift from individualism to crowd identity. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/the-shift-...
I wrote about something dear to me: the ability and beauty of comforting someone with the comfort of Christ through your own suffering: newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/comforting...
Comforting Others with the Comfort of Christ
Making purpose of suffering
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October 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote about something dear to me: the ability and beauty of comforting someone with the comfort of Christ through your own suffering: newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/comforting...
I wrote about how we make provision for our flesh online: newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/make-no-pr...
Make No Provision for the Flesh, Even Online
On the ways we are tempted to provide for sin
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October 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I wrote about how we make provision for our flesh online: newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/make-no-pr...
Sometimes you just have to write a post preaching to yourself: newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/what-is-yo...
What is Your Busyness Doing?
A reflection on acedia
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October 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Sometimes you just have to write a post preaching to yourself: newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/what-is-yo...
I wrote about how we can help invite people to recovery who have developed a taste for their own misery: newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/how-can-we...
How Can We Inspire Healing in Souls Habituated to Suffering
Inviting people to healing
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October 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I wrote about how we can help invite people to recovery who have developed a taste for their own misery: newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/how-can-we...
What is the greatest good in loving your enemies? To defeat them? Or something else? newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/is-it-lovi...
Is it Loving to Your Enemies to Defeat Them?
Why repentance is the greatest good
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October 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
What is the greatest good in loving your enemies? To defeat them? Or something else? newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/is-it-lovi...
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A good word from @oalannoble.bsky.social: “Any movement primarily driven by online lifestyle gurus, whether secular or religious, cannot give us the human love and discipleship we need to grow and mature in our faith. They can, however, manipulate our emotions and sell us a lot of swag.”
The Distinction Between Influencer and "Be Imitators of me, as I am of Christ."
And the perverse incentives that drive the former
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October 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A good word from @oalannoble.bsky.social: “Any movement primarily driven by online lifestyle gurus, whether secular or religious, cannot give us the human love and discipleship we need to grow and mature in our faith. They can, however, manipulate our emotions and sell us a lot of swag.”
Reposted by O. Alan Noble
“It’s not always easy to tell the difference between someone with a simple passion for theology and a disorder driving them with anxiety to find impossible certainty.” @oalannoble.bsky.social
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How Ministers Can Identify Scrupulosity
When earnest questions about faith and morality become compulsive and unhealthy
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October 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“It’s not always easy to tell the difference between someone with a simple passion for theology and a disorder driving them with anxiety to find impossible certainty.” @oalannoble.bsky.social
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Contra Driscoll, God has not bypassed the pulpit for the podcast, but it's worth pausing to explore the distinction between influencer and pastor/elder, and the effects of blurring that distinction. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/the-distin...
The Distinction Between Influencer and "Be Imitators of me, as I am of Christ."
And the perverse incentives that drive the former
newsletter.oalannoble.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Contra Driscoll, God has not bypassed the pulpit for the podcast, but it's worth pausing to explore the distinction between influencer and pastor/elder, and the effects of blurring that distinction. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/the-distin...
If you stay in ministry long enough, you're probably going to come across scrupulosity. I've tried to describe how to identify it and respond to it compassionately in this unlocked post. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/how-minist...
How Ministers Can Identify Scrupulosity
When earnest questions about faith and morality become compulsive and unhealthy
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October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
If you stay in ministry long enough, you're probably going to come across scrupulosity. I've tried to describe how to identify it and respond to it compassionately in this unlocked post. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/how-minist...