Substack Articles
"It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,
and the glory of kings to search it out."
Proverbs 25: 2
As of this month, I've published 46 articles on the Substack Platform. I generally write an article per week (sometimes two), and have recently organized them into four categories to make it easier to get to the kind of article you might be interested in reading. As always, thanks for your interest. There is always a free subscription option and I will never publish anything that requires paid subscription.
Many of my compositions have stories behind how or why they were composed. If they do and I think listeners might be interested in knowing about them, I write them up and publish them on Substack.
This is a collection of stories, sentimental memories, thoughts that come to my mind while on walks in the woods...
These are articles, most of them based on memories, that I wrote just for the fun of it.
A number of years ago I wrote a sermon with ideas to answer the question; why does God allow bad things to happen to innocent people?
The more I worked on it, the bigger it got. It started as one sermon, then grew to four, then I realized it probably would have to be a book.
I asked a friend if she would read such a book, and she answered, "probably not", but that she would read the chapters as articles.
They need to be read in order, so I put them all in their own folder.
Train Station, Aller Valley
On the path that follows the river San Isidro...
NEW SUBSTACK SERIES PLANNED: "Echos of Guernica"
I have always had a strong interest in the history of the Spanish Civil War and have been reading on the subject since I started doing pilgrimages across northern Spain in 2013. It is a sensitive subject here in Spain and people are usually very reluctant to talk about it. But I managed to have a lengthy discussion with a history professor at the University of Leon ten years ago, which only added fuel to my interest. And in the years since I have had several opportunities to talk with locals about it. I even spent an evening in the village of Bulness (Asturias) listening to the memories of a very elderly lady who lived through it.
This war is arguably among the most tragic in human history for many reasons and when I first started learning about it, the prevailing sense in the writings suggested that it could never happen again. The circumstances leading up to it were too unique, too unlikely to have ever occurred in the first place let alone to reoccur.
But then I started noticing strong similarities to circumstances currently present here in Europe as well as the United States, even if in varying degrees. The idea started forming in my head to write about these circumstances with a backdrop of videos filmed in the places that most evoke them: Torrelavega, Ebro, Avila, Guernica, and Valle de los Caìdos (now called Valle de los Cuelgamuros).
The over-arching theme will be the tragic consequences of what I believe to be a catastrophically poisonous philosophy: the ends justify the means.
I look forward to working on it and hope you join my Substack channel for the articles and videos. Look for them to begin in late Spring, 2026.
