A Very Special Announcement

Celebrating 5 years of this newsletter...with a giveaway!

This year marks five years of Substack for me.

When I launched, this newsletter was first called “Insights.” I had no ambitions for it. I certainly had no intention of this space growing like it has, or of the book that I’d write that would eventually give it a new name.

Here’s what I eventually wrote in the “About” page:

Digital Liturgies is an attempt to express the intersection of a robustly evangelical, Reformed Christianity with life in a modern, technological society. Most of my writing is an attempt to apply theological wisdom to the way I think, the way I communicate, and the way I live. Ours is a fractured, algorithmic, reactive age. Christian wisdom calls us to reflection, truth-telling, and humility. Those things are intrinsically more difficult in a world increasingly mediated by screens. This newsletter is an experiment in striving toward the values of Christian wisdom against the headwinds of technological formation, i.e., the “digital liturgies.”

Writing online has its share of pitfalls. It can be perilous to think in real-time. And the technological landscape has decidedly turn against the kind of writing I do here. Nevertheless, I think Christians in particular have to become people of clear, honest thinking in a muddy, dishonest cultural moment.

The last several years has been an opportunity, not only for me personally to grow into these ideas, but also to cultivate a small community of folks who share these core desires. And that is my goal for the next five years: To not just write, but to interact, to invest more in the comments and contributions that this space has been blessed with. I hope you’ll be a part of that.

In fact, I hope it so much, that I’m doing a giveaway!

Crossway has generously agreed to sponsor it, and I’m exceedingly grateful.

This is a subscriber-only giveaway!!!

So if you come across this post and you haven’t subscribed to Digital Liturgies yet, please do so! On May 16, two winners will be randomly selected from the list of subscribers.

First prize:

-A complete set of Christopher Ash’s 4-volume The Psalms: A Christ-Centered Commentary.

-A copy of Be Thou My Vision: A Liturgy for Daily Worship, by Jonathan Gibson

-A signed copy of Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age (with Study Questions)

-A complimentary 1-year paid subscription (or a gift subscription to someone else) to Digital Liturgies.

Second Prize:

-Be Thou My Vision

-Signed copy of Digital Liturgies

-Complimentary 1-year paid subscription

Note: Unfortunately, this giveaway is only open to residents of the continental USA.

How to Enter

-Subscribe to Digital Liturgies between now and May 15.

-Refer a friend to get bonus giveaway entries. If 3 people subscribe through you referral, you’ll get a bonus giveaway entry. If 10 people subscribe, you’ll get 5 bonus entries!

Thank you for making the last five years a truly rewarding season of my life. Further up and further in!

-Samuel