Self-professed followers of Jesus the Messiah on Nostr. Protestants, Roman Catholics and Orthodox welcome. (No LDS or JWs)
What does independence mean in the digital age? Reflecting on America's 250th birthday and recent changes to Continuum, this article explores why true software sovereignty comes from owning the architecture rather than becoming dependent on any single provider or platform.
This document outlines the current architectural direction for Continuum Vault. It communicates the long-term vision and guiding principles rather than every implementation detail. As Continuum evolves, this document will evolve alongside it.
For years, my digital life was scattered across Facebook, LinkedIn, X, WhatsApp, Nostr, and countless other services. Each knew a different part of me, but none ever felt like home. This is the story of the question that ultimately became Continuum.
St. Jude will not let us grow comfortable: the Lord saved a people out of Egypt and then destroyed those who would not believe. Faith can die, and a baptized man can become a cloud without water — all the look of a Christian with no rain in him. But the same Lord who judged the unbelieving in the wilderness comes down the mountain to a demon-tormented boy and a father who can barely pray, and He is faithful where our faith is little. Our safety is not the strength of our grip on Christ but His grip on us.
Arbitrary data — inscriptions, tokens, spam — is being used to slow Bitcoin's growth, raise node costs, and push the network toward capture. The answer is BIP-110: a node operator's veto.
A slave born in the house does not dream of freedom. He can't picture an outside, so he calls his cage contentment. You know something he doesn't, because it already happened to you once with your money. You cracked a wall and found a door. That crack isn't your failure. It's proof you can do the one thing the other rooms require.
You already caught the con where free apps sell your data. That was the easy version. The real trap is that everything handed to you for free quietly removes a reason to build it yourself, and you pay for it in a currency you can't feel. You fixed your money and called it done. This is why the job's barely started.
You have been somebody's disciple since the day you were born, and Jesus warns that you never rise above your teacher — given enough time, you simply become him. The world is a blind guide that trains us to judge first and forgive slowly, and we have become blind guides ourselves, reaching for the speck in a brother's eye with a plank in our own. But there is another Teacher: Jesus is the Father's mercy in the flesh, who takes our score-keeping heart to the cross and trains us in Baptism, Word, Absolution, and the Supper until we begin to look like Him.
Nostr is a commons. Don't let it become a tragedy.
A Catholic professor gives a talk on 'The Eclipse of Catholic Pelvic Morality.' I wasn't having it. What followed was an uncomfortable confrontation, but I felt it was necessary. Was I wrong to confront him publicly? What do you think?
The affliction that sweeps through your life is not a club driving you out but a broom sweeping you home: His pursuit, not your punishment. He answers the charge that He receives sinners with the lost sheep and the lost coin—lighting the lamp of His Word, laying the sheep on His own shoulders rejoicing, carrying you to the rail. You came in a lost coin and go out treasure in the King’s own hand.
The Lord sends Jeremiah running through Jerusalem to find one righteous man so the city may be pardoned—and finds none. The foe gathers from the north and Jeremiah’s vision unmakes creation itself over a people wise to do evil. The one Just Man is found at last outside the walls, and for His sake the city is spared.
For twelve years she had been unclean — exiled from the assembly, emptied by physicians who took everything and healed nothing. So she comes to steal a cure from the fringe of Jesus' garment, certain God's mercy runs out like everything else has. But His power goes out from Him and nothing is subtracted: she came to take a cure and leaves a daughter. There is always more where that came from.
"For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn themselves cisterns — broken cisterns that can hold no water." (Jer. 2:13)
You have what Lazarus had. You have a name, given in the water. You have the promise — eternal life on account of the promise, not on account of your merits. You have Moses and the Prophets and the One they promised, who is here, on this altar, in your mouth and in your body.
Riley and Gillespie sit with Bo Giertz and read his open letter to the churches. Crisis, liberal theology, the resurrection as the center of preaching, and the church's endurance through every age.
You went into that water still carrying the old premise — still asking what resurrection could possibly mean, still uncertain whether the age to come is anything more than this age with the dying removed. And you came out having been given something you did not generate, extra nos, outside yourself, from the One whose Name was spoken over you.
