“Dispatches from the Sacred Grocery” is about finding something sacred in the ordinary, from neon lights and freezer doors to the quiet space between errands.
If it lands, share it.

ridgeandrailing.substack.com/p/dispatches-from-the-sacred-grocery

#writing #Substack #Appalachian #writersofbluesky

New post’s up.
Less grief, more grit.
An Appalachian User’s Manual is for anyone who’s ever taken directions like “turn where the Dollar General burned down.”

Not really a manual, but close enough.

ridgeandrailing.substack.com/p/an-appalac...

Wrestling hard with the idea of a Christian God, mostly because of American evangelicals. Love thy neighbor has turned into love thy neighbor if they check all the right boxes. The next pope might decide it. If he’s hardline conservative, the faith is lost.

A full note on substack - link in bio.

Respect makes a damn good disguise.
Some folks do harm in plain sight—and we let them.
New from The Ridge & The Railing:
Too Respected to be Suspected
ridgeandrailing.substack.com/p/too-respec...

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New on The Ridge and the Railing:
Trump posts an AI image of himself as the Pope. It’s not satire. It’s sacrilege in cosplay form.

🔗 [eiarmstrong.substack.com]

#TrumpPope #ReligiousCosplay #FaithNotFakery #ChristianNationalism #TruthWithTeeth #AppalachianVoices #SubstackWriters #CulturalCritique