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I imagine there are a variety of reasons people will listen to a podcast like this, ranging from processing trauma if the listener was close enough to the story all the way to schadenfreude over seeing a controversial Christian leader fall from grace.

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The podcast was published between mid-2021 and late-2022. To its credit, and despite being a retrospective on events that had taken place more than five years prior, it does not try to wrap up the story with a tidy moral.

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Although the story is ostensibly about Mars Hill Church, much of the focus is given to its pastor, Mark Driscoll and his personality, leadership style and impact on the church and its people.

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Megachurches and the Temptation of Mass Appeal

For the past week I have been making my way through The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, a podcast published by Christianity Today about the Seattle megachurch. www.danielmoch.com/posts/2026/0...

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 29/05/2026

I mean that we continue to delude ourselves into thinking that artifical enhancements will best our natural selves, only to be (dis)satisfied when that doesn’t pan out. www.danielmoch.com/posts/2026/0...

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 29/05/2026

Something about this feels like an apt synecdoche of our era

The week's greatest (read: saddest) sports story comes from the Enhanced Games, a new Vegas-based competition showcasing athletes openly using steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), and vowing to crush records in marquee events like the 100-meter dash and the 100-meter freestyle swim. Interestingly, a competitor who vowed he'd "juice to the gills" performed worse than he did when he couldn't use drugs. Even more embarrassing: The 50-meter backstroke winner was a non-enhanced athlete, thus, writes James Dator for SB Nation, "tearing apart the entire premise for the games." All told, one world record was beaten while three unenhanced athletes won their events. It's a victory for man over pharma.

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 28/05/2026

Seasons of even small suffering thin out my soul www.danielmoch.com/posts/2026/05/…

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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 27/05/2026

Tired: thinking, fast and slow Wired: thinking, shallow and deep

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If this can make me more patient with the customer service agent who is unable to help me (and who is likely powerless to do so anyway), then that’s a win.

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What I mean is that Teresa’s framing is—for me—clarifying. Now I get to sift through the variety of small anxieties that attend modern life and figure out where I feel unknown. The hope is that acknowledging it will give me a chance to move through the discomfort with some intentionality.

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I think this is good. That feeling is a lie when it comes from a machine trained (simplistically) to produce an average response to my conversational input.

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This clarifies much of the ick I feel interacting with chatbots. If I am am engaged in some kind of transaction with one, then fair play. But the moment I start to feel known by one, I feel a deep unease and need to take very large step back.

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As those closest to me can attest, I do not respond well to being regularly misunderstood. I become bitter, short, passive aggressive. In short, I become smaller than myself.

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It’s hard to put words to just how deeply this resonates. I have organized so much of my life around trying to “be useful” or “do something meaningful.” I need to be seen like I need to breathe.

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 22/05/2026

I’ve been reading James K.A. Smith’s "Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark" and was taken aback by this passage commenting on Teresa of Ávila’s "Interior Castle": www.danielmoch.com/posts/2026/0...

One of the threads of Teresa’s Interior Castle that is so prescient and timely is her attunement to the fears and anxieties that lurk within us—anxieties only amped up by late modernity. … What are we afraid of? … At bottom, Teresa suggests, we are afraid of being misunderstood, unseen, unrecognized, bereft of love. We want to be known, recognized, liberated because we are loved as we are.

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The reality is that my “habits” recently consist of being distant and grumpy. Sure, I have my own stuff going on, but I have done a poor job insulating my family from it.

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 22/05/2026

James Clear recently asked, “If your family inherited only your habits …, which ones would be your richest gifts?” I was struck by the question, and not in a good way. www.danielmoch.com/posts/2026/0...

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When telling someone a web URL, instead of saying www long form, pronounce it “sextupleyou.”

Let's just hope our machine stops before Forster's

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I used to think Huxley had the most prescient take on where things were going, now I think Forster did

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 02/05/2026

I first encountered this a few months ago and have been haunted by it since

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Anyone able to recommend a domain registrar? My current provider seems unable to handle even simple support requests.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/04/2026

A bit over two years after starting to work on it... Go is officially FIPS 140-3 certified 💥 csrc.nist.gov/projects/cry... I am pretty confident Go is now one of the most—if not the most—seamless and complete FIPS 140-3 compliance solutions... with a single env var, out of the box.

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 21/02/2026

Just finished @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social’s Southern Reach trilogy. I’ll probably read Absolution at some point, but right now I feel like I need to sit with the lack of easy answers.

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 03/01/2026

I think Kingsnorth is onto something, but his discussion of science in Chaoter VII of “Against The Machine” needs more nuance www.danielmoch.com/posts/2026/01/…

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 26/12/2025

Hiked Lookout Mountain’s Bluff Trail today www.danielmoch.com/posts/2025/12/…

Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. Here is a short reflection on a Christmas passage, written for my kids. www.danielmoch.com/posts/2025/12/…

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 06/12/2025

The Unbearable Lightness of Excusing Oneself From Online Discourse

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 30/11/2025

Normalize meal-time video chats with friends and family

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 13/11/2025

Who’d have thought morning show hosts make terrible theologians

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/11/2025

Wait, so lunch sides today are potato salad *and* potato chips? Not a choice but both?

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Hey #KubeCon, be extra kind to the staff today. One of them I chatted with yesterday whispered to me that people were giving them a hard time today

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Sometimes I get the feeling “fun” is a sanitized word technologists use when they mean “addictive.”

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Even at #KubeCon the demo gods refuse to smile

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 10/11/2025

Yeah, I’m thinking “local” dev. If you move far enough left folks usually start stripping out mechanisms, and even if that’s unavoidable to some degree I wonder if keeping the policy/mechanism distinction in mind might help drive healthier choices

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 10/11/2025

Dev-Prod Parity has been a thing since 12factors, but I wonder if that can only be accomplished if limited to mechanism. Policies really need to change between dev and prod, no?

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 10/11/2025

So far Atlanta’s #KubeCon makes Detroit’s seem Bahamian by comparison.

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 05/10/2025

Be careful who you emulate. The desire to change the world can lead either to service or hubris.

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 01/09/2025

If you’re in the area, reach out and let me know. It would be great to make some connections in the area! www.danielmoch.com/posts/2025/0...