Substack can be a powerful tool for graduate students wrestling with thesis completion, offering several key benefits:

• Building writing confidence: Regular newsletter writing helps develop a consistent writing habit without the pressure of academic perfectionism
• Testing ideas publicly: Using Substack to share research thoughts allows students to get feedback and validation before committing ideas to their thesis
• Creating accountability: Regular publishing schedules help maintain momentum in the research process

How to use Substack effectively during thesis writing:

• Start small: Begin with brief posts about your research journey and gradually increase complexity as confidence grows
• Build community: Engage with other graduate students and researchers in your field through comments and discussions
• Document progress: Use the platform to track your research development and breakthrough moments

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💡 Pro Tip: Consider creating a private newsletter first if you're hesitant about sharing your work publicly. This allows you to practice writing without external pressure.

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The platform can serve as a bridge between informal thinking and formal academic writing, helping students find their voice while maintaining scholarly rigor.

I’m thinking a combination of your gift for accuracy, detail, and precision, together with the wonder, privilege, and luxury of receiving something of foreign origin, including an English lesson on modalities to share with others by correspondence. It would shout, in not so many words: “Abused? Mistreated? Want a better life? Try Jesus, he loves and cares for you.” I have chosen a retro postmaster look and feel and am working with graphic designers to create something of an “event” that both young and old can look forward to with each dispatch.

For the English lessons, I have already drafted an outline of the 7 modal excellencies, based on the Romans 12:6–8 worldview, on my Substack page. I’ve completed the foundation of around 22 units already, but they would need to be recalibrated into a lesson plan, which I am not trained to do. Let me know if you would be able to help in this area, for the benefit of ESL learners, to bring them up to speed on the 7 An Tu language from Genesis to Revelation.

These Substack articles are part of the foundational courseware for new joiners to our degree programme, which aims to bring students from ground zero to cap n’ gown over five years, especially those with limited English proficiency. The goal is to turn “students” into “candidates” who are familiar with the warp and woof of the biblical landscape, able to discern its contours, and eventually able to contribute their own insights to the paradigm. This may also form the basis of their own modalities research, should they decide to sign up for our degree offerings.

Of course. This is Lilian at her best. Her accuracy, detail, and precision decode and define her elemental modal excellence. That is why I’m proposing the retro postmaster project, where we can send out modalities lessons as English lessons to reach our friends along the Dalat to Nha Trang corridor, our new Pleiku friends, including the J’rai tribals, and the various pastoral networks from north to south (a reunification postal delivery system). All of it by snail mail that screams: “Abused? Mistreated? Want a better life? Try Jesus, he loves and cares for you.” I can just imagine friends of the Bridegroom, regardless of their English proficiency, opening up—nay, “unboxing”—specially crafted packages from outside the country, heralding news, views, opinions, and insights on modal excellence, one envelope at a time.

I want to share what happened yesterday when we first checked into the Mai Saigon in District 7. This prompted this article, which provides some background on how I derived the General Scholium (Tuyen Group, City of Faith, Hanoi) PDF that I sent to Ps Daniel after our Zoom call this morning.

As we got into the room, we found a pattern on the floor tiles that jumped out at me: a design motif comprising 9 x 9, 8 x 8, 7 x 7, 6 x 6, 5 x 5, etc. squares within squares, like Russian dolls, each fitting inside the other.

It spoke of the layered education approach ☝️: the first 22 squares formed the foundational layer, followed by a doubling to 44 and then 66, representing increasing levels up to a total of 91 squares. I’ll leave it to those with greater numeracy to interpret it more fully, but this is what I saw..