Over the last year, I’ve been exploring the work of Dr. Bob Schuchts and the John Paul II Healing Center. As dioceses continue to hire them (as well as Sr. Miriam Heidland who works collaboratively with them) to teach on healing, sexuality, and gender, it’s important to critically examine their work. Rather than presenting perspectives grounded in professional psychology and Catholic theology, they tend to offer teachings rooted in the protestant prayer healing movement and outdated (or simply inaccurate) psychological claims.

by Josiah Hughes and Sam Sutherland Jos: In July of 2017, we released our first episode of Blink-155. If you’re reading this newsletter, you are likely aware of it, but if not, what followed was over a half-decade of inscrutable and self-indulgent meta commentary/comedy about culture thinly veiled as noughties nostalgia music criticism and/or unnecessarily comprehensive pop podcasting.  The show was, obviously, a definitive work for ourselves, but it couldn’t have existed the way it did without the all-encompassing black hole that was blink-182 at the time.

In the landscape of distributor tech investments, few stories capture the essence of the investment thesis like that of Bluon. What began as an R&D venture in 2011 has now emerged as a force in the HVAC industry initially as a B2B SaaS tool for HVAC technicians …. and now, as the leading B2B HVAC Marketplace. This week we take an investment level deep dive into Bluon’s $7mm crowdsourced fundraise on a pre-money valuation of $107mm and how they’ve been able to bridge the gap between HVAC distributors and technicians.

I don’t only assemble my friends when I need to rescue an uncooperative animal. Sometimes, we get together for games. Okay, we actually have game nights all the time. I round up between four and six humans who can tolerate my presence for a few hours in a row and force them to play make-believe with me over little bits of cardboard. This weekend was different. It wasn’t just a time to move around some meeples.

The final box-office figures are in, and The Chosen Season 4: Episodes 1-3 came in slightly under the Sunday-morning estimates, earning $5.9 million for the three-day weekend and $7.4 million since opening on Thursday. So, is the latest big-screen release from The Chosen a hit? Well, it’s complicated. To recap: The makers of The Chosen have been experimenting with theatrical releases for just over two years now. First, they put a Christmas special with a brand-new bonus episode on the big screen in 2021.