I find self-promotion incredibly difficult and awkward; it’s against my cultural inclinations and personal ingrainings. So, posts like this are few and far between.
Paid Subscriptions
I’m sure by now substack has pestered you at least once to consider upgrading to a paid subscription. You don’t have to, you never have to. You gain no access to any special features, subscriber-only posts, clubs, private chats, or whatever; nothing but the joy of givin. I am incredibly grateful to those who are paid subscribers; it means quite a lot that you think my writing here is worth supporting financially. If you want to support what I do here by paying for a subscription, then by all means do so, and know that I will be very thankful for it.
Podcast
Every many and his dog has a podcast these days. There is a podcast associated with this substack, and it’s just sermon recordings. The best way to hear a sermon is to wander along to your local church and listen to a live flesh-and-blood human being. But, the wonders of technology do mean it’s possible for us to record and pass along sermons with abundant ease.
I bring this up because (a) substack has recently made it easier on my end to do podcasts and integrate it to spotify, etc.. (b) you have to subscribe separately to get sermon posts. You can do that either by:
i) If you go to the webpage and click on settings/manage subscription, and switch “Comforting Dissonance” on, you’ll get emails for sermon/podcast posts
ii) you can subscribe on spotify here.
iii) or on apple podcasts here.
I’ll be uploading more sermons roughly monthly; The sermons uploaded are going to be a mix of recent and very-not-recent ones. So you can listen to the Seumas of yesteryear.
And while we’re here, here’s some good and timely advice on listening to sermons well.