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Following Jesus ✝️𓅦𓅦𓅦

Self-professed followers of Jesus the Messiah on Nostr. Protestants, Roman Catholics and Orthodox welcome. (No LDS or JWs)

Curated by Marakesh 𓅦
by Christopher Gillespie

"Follow Jesus, and you’ll lose some things—but you’ll gain everything" Wednesday of Trinity 16 2025

That’s the paradox of the cross. To gain life, you must lose it. To be rich, you give it away. To be filled, you have to be emptied. That’s why we gather—to have our illusions shattered. To hear what’s true, even when it’s painful. Because Jesus isn’t trying to ruin your life; he’s saving it. He’s freeing you from the grip of mammon, from the illusion that you can save yourself, and from the lie that you can be good without God.

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by Christopher Gillespie

"What no doctor, no medicine, no fortune could do—Christ does with a word!" Trinity 16 2025

Death still stings, but it cannot keep you. The grave still claims the body, but not the soul. Christ has made death a servant of life, turning the enemy into the doorway through which He brings His saints home. And so, when the day comes—and it will—when your strength fails and your eyes grow dim, do not be afraid. Christ will be there, as He was at Nain, as He was at the tomb, as He is here now. And He will say to you, not as a command of judgment but as a word of promise: “I say to you, arise!”

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by asyncmind

The March of Code: When Infrastructure Becomes Empire

The same infrastructures that scaled commerce are now marching in lockstep as instruments of power. This poster is a mirror for the boardroom: when code becomes empire, accountability must follow. Publish contracts. Audit the cloud. Rebuild the commons.

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by Akamaister

Free Article 1 (Sept. 23, 2025): Freedom in the Fire: When Cultures Collide

This reflection explores how freedom is revealed and refined in cultural collisions. It argues that true freedom is responsibility carried under pressure, not license enjoyed in calm. Drawing lessons from island sovereignties facing imperial power, it invites readers to steward freedom with courage in their own homes, wallets, and communities.

by Christopher Gillespie

Ambrose on the Resurrection

87. If the earth and heaven are renewed, why should we doubt that man, on account of whom heaven and earth were made, can be renewed? If the transgressor be reserved for punishment, why should not the just be kept for glory? If the worm of sins does not die, how shall the flesh of the just perish? For the resurrection, as the very form of the word shows, is this, that what has fallen should rise again, that which has died should come to life again.

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by Liberty Gal

Abide

What does it truly mean to abide in Jesus and why does it matter

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by Contra

The Network Effect of Intellectual Diversity The architecture of human knowledge advancement has always depended on one critical variable: the diversity and density of our epistemic networks. On Nostr, we have the rare opportunity to consciously design these networks rather than inherit them through algorithmic curation or institutional gatekeeping. Why your follow list is your cognitive infrastructure: The sociologist Mark Granovetter’s research on “weak ties” revealed that breakthrough opportunities—new jobs, novel ideas, paradigm shifts—rarely come from our close-knit inner circles. They emerge from the periphery, from acquaintances who inhabit different knowledge domains and challenge our cognitive schemas. Your Nostr network should mirror this principle. Follow the brilliant minds who make you uncomfortable. Engage with perspectives that force you to strengthen or abandon weak arguments. Connect with builders, philosophers, dissidents, and domain experts whose worldviews create productive cognitive friction. The psychology of trust in decentralized systems: Trust doesn’t scale through institutions here—it scales through repeated interaction, reputation signaling, and network effects. When you repost thoughtful content, you’re not just sharing information; you’re participating in a distributed system of epistemic validation. You’re signaling to the broader network which ideas deserve cognitive bandwidth. This creates something unprecedented: a trust network that emerges from voluntary association rather than institutional decree. Your connections become nodes in a resilience network that can route around censorship, groupthink, and systemic failure.

Cover image for The Network Effect of Intellectual Diversity The architecture of human knowledge advancement has always depended on one critical variable: the diversity and density of our epistemic networks. On Nostr, we have the rare opportunity to consciously design these networks rather than inherit them through algorithmic curation or institutional gatekeeping. Why your follow list is your cognitive infrastructure: The sociologist Mark Granovetter’s research on “weak ties” revealed that breakthrough opportunities—new jobs, novel ideas, paradigm shifts—rarely come from our close-knit inner circles. They emerge from the periphery, from acquaintances who inhabit different knowledge domains and challenge our cognitive schemas. Your Nostr network should mirror this principle. Follow the brilliant minds who make you uncomfortable. Engage with perspectives that force you to strengthen or abandon weak arguments. Connect with builders, philosophers, dissidents, and domain experts whose worldviews create productive cognitive friction. The psychology of trust in decentralized systems: Trust doesn’t scale through institutions here—it scales through repeated interaction, reputation signaling, and network effects. When you repost thoughtful content, you’re not just sharing information; you’re participating in a distributed system of epistemic validation. You’re signaling to the broader network which ideas deserve cognitive bandwidth. This creates something unprecedented: a trust network that emerges from voluntary association rather than institutional decree. Your connections become nodes in a resilience network that can route around censorship, groupthink, and systemic failure.