# witness (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 13 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover witness. Page: Feed: --- ## [Weekly Roundup: Aug. 21](https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/weekly-roundup-aug-21) _2026-08-21 · Word&Way · A Public Witness_ Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. This week we published a look on how churches responded to learning that the Department of Homeland Security spied on them and a report on the latest worship service at the Pentagon. ## [De Zes Sleutels](https://discoverwhatawaitsyou.substack.com/p/de-zes-sleutels) _2026-08-21 · Obliged to See · Muzzled Witness of the Damned_ Part Seven of The Blackwater Saga... ## [Southern Baptist Preacher Tells Pentagon Worship Service that God Will ‘Fight Their Battles’](https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/southern-baptist-preacher-tells-pentagon) _2026-08-19 · Brian Kaylor · A Public Witness_ An influential Southern Baptist pastor stood Wednesday (Aug. 19) in the headquarters of the world’s largest military and, with no sense of irony, preached a message of hope for Pentagon leaders by pointing to multiple biblical passages where God miraculously delivered people by defeating a large imperial military. ## [Powers for Good](https://fbsmit.substack.com/p/powers-for-good) _2026-08-19 · Frances Smit · Catholic Witness Stories_ A Back-to-School special ## [What Osea Keeps](https://discoverwhatawaitsyou.substack.com/p/what-osea-keeps) _2026-08-19 · Obliged to See · Muzzled Witness of the Damned_ Part Six of The Blackwater Saga... ## [SG212 - What happens between knowing what to do and actually doing it?](https://simplyglin.substack.com/p/sg212-what-happens-between-knowing) _2026-08-18 · Glin Bayley · You are Subject No.1 by SimplyGlin_ The Wednesday Witness Series | An unexamined negotiation with yourself. ## [THE GLAND THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SLEEP ON](https://discoverwhatawaitsyou.substack.com/p/the-gland-they-dont-want-you-to-sleep) _2026-08-18 · Obliged to See · Muzzled Witness of the Damned_ A Muzzled Witness Investigation Into Your Malfunctioning Third Eye... ## [OBEY](https://discoverwhatawaitsyou.substack.com/p/obey) _2026-08-18 · Obliged to See · Muzzled Witness of the Damned_ A Field Guide to the Glasses Nobody Wants You to Wear... ## [The WITNESS Top 50 Greatest R&B Songs of All Time](https://robertjonesjr.substack.com/p/the-witness-top-50-greatest-r-and) _2026-08-18 · Robert Jones, Jr. · Witness_ ESSENCE issued the challenge. I gladly accepted! ## [In Worship and in Court, Churches Respond to DHS Spying in Their Buildings](https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/in-worship-and-in-court-churches) _2026-08-17 · Brian Kaylor · A Public Witness_ At the start of worship on Sunday morning (Aug. 16), Rev. Cody Sanders gave an announcement that’s not what he typically offers: the congregation had been one of several churches “targeted by undercover Department of Homeland Security infiltration.” ## [AI Summaries & Audio Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/vo8NOsvsd0il) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to concise audio briefings for the latest stories. ## [The Antiquarian Society](https://discoverwhatawaitsyou.substack.com/p/the-antiquarian-society) _2026-08-17 · Obliged to See · Muzzled Witness of the Damned_ Part Five of The Blackwater Saga... ## [Not all news is created equal. The sad story of Jason Arday is testament to that.](https://itwillgetbetter.substack.com/p/i-dont-want-the-media-to-scrutinise) _2026-08-16 · Rebecca Mack ☕ · This Woman's Work_ The Weekly Witness Edition 8 ## [SG211 - I don’t want pressure to be my motivation anymore](https://simplyglin.substack.com/p/sg211-i-dont-want-pressure-to-be) _2026-08-16 · Glin Bayley · You are Subject No.1 by SimplyGlin_ Glin & Tonic Sunday Series | Turning inner growth into action without abandoning myself. ## [Witness and Wildcard # 9](https://fbsmit.substack.com/p/witness-and-wildcard-9) _2026-08-15 · Frances Smit · Catholic Witness Stories_ Our Lady of the Assumption | Powers for Good, a Back-to-School Special ## [Weekly Roundup: Aug. 14](https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/weekly-roundup-aug-14) _2026-08-14 · Word&Way · A Public Witness_ Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. In addition to a look at the problem with religious tests for office and a report on the Trump administration sending undercover agents inside church buildings that are free for anyone to read, paid subscribers to ## [Department of Homeland Security Spied on Churches in the Twin Cities](https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/department-of-homeland-security-spied) _2026-08-14 · Brian Kaylor · A Public Witness_ According to documents filed in federal court this week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents into church buildings to track activists attending events at Lutheran, Baptist, Episcopal, and Universalist churches. ## [What We Can Learn From AI Slop Images Celebrating Pentagon Worship Services](https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/what-we-can-learn-from-ai-slop-images) _2026-08-13 · Brian Kaylor · A Public Witness_ I first noticed something odd after reporting on Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” reading Psalm 144 during the Pentagon worship service in January to justify the U.S. ## [The Missing Books](https://discoverwhatawaitsyou.substack.com/p/the-missing-books) _2026-08-13 · Obliged to See · Muzzled Witness of the Damned_ Part Four of The Blackwater Saga... ## [SG210 - You already know what would move your business](https://simplyglin.substack.com/p/sg210-you-already-know-what-would) _2026-08-12 · Glin Bayley · You are Subject No.1 by SimplyGlin_ The Wednesday Witness Series | Why you spend your week everywhere else ## [Flunk Those Who Want a Religious Test for Office](https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/flunk-those-who-want-a-religious) _2026-08-11 · Brian Kaylor · A Public Witness_ The Republican lieutenant governor of Indiana wants to change his state’s Constitution to bar non-Christians from holding public office. ## [Crush Every Threat in Real Time (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/2vjO7iHuQ0RT) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ One agent for real-time detection, exposure tracking, and active defense. ## [A Tide That Doesn’t Turn](https://discoverwhatawaitsyou.substack.com/p/a-tide-that-doesnt-turn) _2026-08-11 · Obliged to See · Muzzled Witness of the Damned_ Part Three of The Blackwater Saga... ## [Is Substack travelling in the right direction? – the answer lies in the mouths of babes…](https://itwillgetbetter.substack.com/p/is-substack-travelling-in-the-right) _2026-08-09 · Rebecca Mack ☕ · This Woman's Work_ The Weekly Witness by Rebecca Mack - Edition 7 ## [SG209 - What if you already know who you are?](https://simplyglin.substack.com/p/sg209-what-if-you-already-know-who) _2026-08-09 · Glin Bayley · You are Subject No.1 by SimplyGlin_ Glin & Tonic Sunday Series | When the work shifts from finding yourself to expressing yourself. ## [Four-Chambered Heart](https://discoverwhatawaitsyou.substack.com/p/the-four-chambered-heart) _2026-08-08 · Muzzled Witness of the Damned_ Being an account of one heart, mistaken for four, and of the crossing that holds it together... For the one who commissioned this portrait of himself... ## [Weekly Roundup: Aug. 7](https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/weekly-roundup-aug-7) _2026-08-07 · Word&Way · A Public Witness_ Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. In addition to a report on Christian Nationalist rhetoric by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church that is free for anyone to read, paid subscribers to A Public Witness received a look at a rightwing church’s politicking for a ballot measure in Missouri (that failed on Tuesday). ## [THE OVERLOAD](https://discoverwhatawaitsyou.substack.com/p/the-overload) _2026-08-07 · Obliged to See · Muzzled Witness of the Damned_ Everything is on Fire, Nobody's Hiding it, and You're too busy arguing about Aliens to Notice... ## [Nuclear Weapons as ‘God’s Grace and Mercy’?](https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/nuclear-weapons-as-gods-grace-and) _2026-08-06 · Brian Kaylor · A Public Witness_ A prominent figure recently declared that the creation of nuclear weapons was proof that “God’s grace and mercy were bestowed upon our country.” While that might sound like the Crusader theology of Secretary of Pulp Fiction Pete Hegseth, it’s actually a claim made on Saturday (Aug. ## [Know Your Chart: Fixed Stars](https://discoverwhatawaitsyou.substack.com/p/know-your-chart-fixed-stars) _2026-08-06 · Obliged to See · Muzzled Witness of the Damned_ Only when the last spoke has been fitted to the wheel, is there completion... ## [The Quantum Lattice](https://discoverwhatawaitsyou.substack.com/p/the-quantum-lattice) _2026-08-05 · Obliged to See · Muzzled Witness of the Damned_ A Cage, Not a Grave... ## [SG208 - Doing fewer things is the more ambitious move](https://simplyglin.substack.com/p/sg208-doing-fewer-things-is-the-more) _2026-08-05 · Glin Bayley · You are Subject No.1 by SimplyGlin_ The Wednesday Witness Series | Why exceptional results keep being chased with an ordinary way of working ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/gDG71v5xYYEV) _2026-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [They won't count, but we will: Tracking Indigenous disappearance in Australia](https://www.blackwitness.com/p/they-wont-count-but-we-will-tracking) _2026-08-04 · Amy McQuire · BLACK WITNESS_ A new international partnership between The Disappeared Project, Locate International and Forensic Human Identification Co. will build the first database and DNA programme on Indigenous disappearance. ## [Thou Shalt Not … Amend the State Constitution?](https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/thou-shalt-not-amend-the-state-constitution) _2026-08-04 · Brian Kaylor · A Public Witness_ With the arrival of August, people in several states are heading to the voting booths for important midterm primary elections, including Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Virginia today. ## [Glin's July 2026 - 1 Page Report](https://simplyglin.substack.com/p/glins-july-2026-1-page-report) _2026-08-02 · Glin Bayley · You are Subject No.1 by SimplyGlin_ A Look Inside My Journey ## [The Tragedy of Power: And What It Takes to Build Another World](https://fatheradambucko.substack.com/p/the-tragedy-of-power-and-what-it) _2026-08-02 · Adam Bucko · Contemplative Witness with Adam Bucko_ A sermon on Matthew 14:13–21 ## [Hap-py Birth-day to Ya, Baba Baldwin!](https://robertjonesjr.substack.com/p/baba-baldwin) _2026-08-02 · Robert Jones, Jr. · Witness_ The Stevie Wonder version only. If you know, you know. :) ## [SG207 - Can you trust yourself?](https://simplyglin.substack.com/p/sg207-can-you-trust-yourself) _2026-08-02 · Glin Bayley · You are Subject No.1 by SimplyGlin_ Glin & Tonic Sunday Series | Trust yourself by honouring your own word. ## [Weekly Roundup: July 31](https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/weekly-roundup-july-31) _2026-07-31 · Word&Way · A Public Witness_ Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. This week we published the only report by any outlet on the latest Pentagon worship service. ## [SG206 - Why your team stopped telling you the truth](https://simplyglin.substack.com/p/sg206-why-your-team-stopped-telling) _2026-07-29 · Glin Bayley · You are Subject No.1 by SimplyGlin_ The Wednesday Witness Series | When you asked for the truth and couldn’t hear it ## [Witness and Wildcard # 8](https://fbsmit.substack.com/p/witness-and-wildcard-8) _2026-07-29 · Frances Smit · Catholic Witness Stories_ the Memorare, Martha & Mary ## [One week. Two pictures. Worlds apart.](https://itwillgetbetter.substack.com/p/one-week-two-pictures-worlds-apart) _2026-07-26 · Rebecca Mack ☕ · This Woman's Work_ The Weekly Witness with Rebecca Mack -Edition 6 ## [SG205 - The distance we've travelled](https://simplyglin.substack.com/p/sg205-the-distance-weve-travelled) _2026-07-26 · Glin Bayley · You are Subject No.1 by SimplyGlin_ Glin & Tonic Sunday Series | On old friendships, invisible growth and the people who remind us how far we’ve come ## [Gifts and Talents of Martha and Mary](https://fbsmit.substack.com/p/gifts-and-talents-of-martha-and-mary) _2026-07-25 · Frances Smit · Catholic Witness Stories_ A reflection on Luke 10:38-42 ## [Nearly fifty years later and I am playing again.](https://itwillgetbetter.substack.com/p/nearly-fifty-years-later-and-i-am) _2026-07-24 · Rebecca Mack ☕ · This Woman's Work_ 'You never had enough experience of play', my first therapist told me. Well I have come to Substack to put that right. Fancy a game? ## [SG204 - The consciousness it takes to trust yourself](https://simplyglin.substack.com/p/sg204-the-consciousness-it-takes) _2026-07-21 · Glin Bayley · You are Subject No.1 by SimplyGlin_ The Wednesday Witness Series | On trusting your own judgement when your certainty wavers ## [Read a Fucking Book](https://robertjonesjr.substack.com/p/read-a-fucking-book) _2026-07-21 · Robert Jones, Jr. · Witness_ Lessons I learned from my mentor Professor George Cunningham ## [Full circle, imperfect circle and the power of memory.](https://itwillgetbetter.substack.com/p/full-circle-imperfect-circle-and) _2026-07-19 · Rebecca Mack ☕ · This Woman's Work_ The Weekly Witness by Rebecca Mack - Edition 5 ## [Where Love Takes Root: Reflecting on the wisdom of Dorothy Day, Dipa Ma, and Andrew Young with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Adam Bucko](https://fatheradambucko.substack.com/p/where-love-takes-root-reflecting) _2026-07-17 · Adam Bucko · Contemplative Witness with Adam Bucko_ Sign up for our July 18th Beloved Community for Engaged Spiritual Gather ## [The Walls Answered Back: Standing in prayer outside an ICE detention center, we heard the people inside answer](https://fatheradambucko.substack.com/p/the-walls-answered-back-standing) _2026-07-13 · Adam Bucko · Contemplative Witness with Adam Bucko_ Contemplative Witness with Adam Bucko is a reader-supported publication. ## [Bins, bombs and Bellingham. What a time to be alive!](https://itwillgetbetter.substack.com/p/bins-bombs-and-bellingham-what-a) _2026-07-12 · Rebecca Mack ☕ · This Woman's Work_ The Weekly Witness by Rebecca Mack. Issue 4 ## [Watch: Calculus, The Big Ideas](https://metafunctor.com/post/2026-07-09-calculus-playlist/) _2026-07-09 · Alex Towell · metafunctor_ Calculus as one idea examined from every side: a seven-episode animated playlist running from limits through the derivative, the integral, the fundamental theorem, gradients, and optimization.