Things I’m expecting to talk about:

• Chronic illness stuff. I’ve been following a few accounts in Substack Notes that have me again wanting to discuss the thing that alas looms large in my life.

• Personal updates generally, I guess?

• Random other topics that are just chit-chat, what’s on my mind that doesn’t easily get filed elsewhere.

In summary: Topics that used to run on my personal blog, and maybe I will decide to resume blogging there, but for now it makes more sense to have a single interface for my various running-at-the-mouth needs.

As with the basic premise of One Soul at a Time:

• Combox is a perk for sponsors (paid subscribers and those who support my work in-kind elsewhere in my life), except the occasional prayer request thread, which I run a few times a year over on the “Home” section, in the original Evangelization & Discipleship newsletter.

• We remain non-political, including Church politics. This platform is not my spot for that. I developed a writing zone on Substack specifically for the benefit of readers who want to step away from the toxicity of traditional social media.

—> The combox policy is because I physically don’t have it in me to moderate comments, and also because I need a handful of paid subscribers to fund my few writing expenses, so this is my thank you for that.

Don’t have paid-subscriber status? By all means say something on Notes and ping me there, or share the post that has you talking elsewhere on social media . . . I’m in favor of discussion.

Is this a Catholic thing?

Well, I am a Catholic thing, so if that gives you hives this might not be your spot. But I expect most of the readership here in this section will be mixed-audience, and it’s already mixed-audience over at the original evangelization-topics zone. I don’t believe in proselytizing, so don’t sweat that.

=> If you’ve accidentally subscribed to the evangelization-topics portion of the newsletter and don’t care for that content, check your subscription settings to fix that.

As far as the combox or pinging me elsewhere goes . . . I’m not at all bothered by people sharing their non-Catholic (or struggling-Catholic) spiritual lives. You’ve got a perfectly lovable soul, no need to pretend it’s not there.