I get this. I’m definitiely “sitting at the back of the class” but am starting to find myself there more than other platforms!

You should try again! I feel like the momentum there has swelled in the last month or so, for some reason. (As someone with no real data, but pretty good at reading “vibes”. 🔮)

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Unrelated - I think you need to have a Substack moment and start migrating over! (Thought of you this morning when I was contemplating jumping into a Substack slow-read group to read War & Peace in 2026. If you led a Moby Dick read, I would be totally in!)

So much, yes! My heart swells at every golden hour that hits Chicago streets and buildings and hardly blips at a beach sunrise.

Here’s his account of what happened.

We defaulted to Pillar and then decided to help out with their campus launch at Western's chapel last fall. It's been good!

Yeah! Family needs became pressing about a year and a half ago and we had to switch to online schooling for my youngest, which meant my bandwidth for working "weekends" was gone. So I stepped down from my role Maplewood (very sad! love them all!).

(Also, Pillar calls them “worship folders”. Is that an RCA thing??)

Ordinary Time sending song? I’m on a work trip and away from my bulletin otherwise I could snap a photo.

Yes! I have some songs that have very different arrangement vibes depending on if I’m playing the piano or guitar and I can’t decide which version will eventually be recorded. 🙃 I like them both!

Very much one of my stress nightmare scenarios. 😭 Less than 30 mins to assess and rehearse songs I didn’t pick and modify all the key signatures on the fly. Eeep. 🙏🏻 (Thankfully it all worked out, however I have no adrenaline now left in my body.)

It grows here in Michigan too!

What do think of Annie Jacobsen’s new book, Nuclear War?

And the city, state! I’ve wasted years of my life trying to find out where a church is located—scrolling through every page on their site.