A Message For My Readers
On the occasion of my 50,000th subscriber
Hello readers. This week I have a head full of winter virus, and cloudy heads don’t make for good writing. But it seems I have had just had my 50,000th reader sign up here at the Abbey, and it feels like I ought to do something to mark the occasion. Anyway, I have a few things I’ve been wanting to say to you for a while.
So, in lieu of written words, I’ve recorded a short film, in which I reveal a rather special readers’ gift, talk about the role of the Christian writer in the age of the Machine, and think aloud about what my future will hold here at the Abbey of Misrule.
As a little gesture of thanks to all 50,000 of you, I’ve also knocked 10% off all paid subscriptions for the next month, so that you can read all of my words more affordably. If that sounds appealing, you can click here.
Writing for a living is is a privilege, and every single subscriber is a very particular gift. Blessings to you all. And thank you.
It’s not that writers like Crowley, Huxley, Rand and Orwell are predicting the future it’s that people are using their texts to make the future they predicted. But something that is worth investigating is those who have followed Tolkien and those who have followed Roddenberry, Vonnegut and Asimov. Tolkien looks back to go forward the others are progressive in going forward. In fact they are Marxists at heart if that is not a paradox or oxymoron! The likes of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg et al were all entranced by the latter not Tolkien who of course was a devout Christian. This needs writing about to bring more people’s attention to where our leaders and elite get their ideas and motivation from.
Thanks for this update. I have deeply appreciated the clarity and insight of your work, and I can’t count how many people I have forwarded your talk “the blizzard of the world“. That one in particular felt like it captured something that so few if any people today have exactly been able to put their finger on, and it explains well enough to family and friends why I’ve gone from being a militant atheist to being baptized into my local Romanian Orthodox Church here in northern VA (US) this coming Holy Saturday.
Looking forward to your upcoming book and whatever shape the following work takes. I don’t have much in the way of a gift for you, other than my subscription and my humble prayers.