Knowledgebase
The library behind the table.
A growing collection of readings and reference pages — the questions we keep circling back to about faith, media, community, recovery, and technology. Sourced carefully, argued fairly, and free to read.
Different views. Shared humanity. Real community.
Nothing here is a membership test. You don’t have to agree with a page to belong at the table — these are invitations to think, not positions you’re required to hold.
We try to follow one discipline throughout: state the fact, then the popular interpretation — and keep the difference honest. Where something is contested, we say so.
Browse by topic
Five threads we keep returning to.
Christianity
Scripture, church history, and spiritual formation — including the case that love wins, the history of how the Bible came to us, and the parables as a spiritual map.
Explore Christianity →Media Discernment
How outrage, incentives, and narratives capture attention — and how to read headlines and evidence without being deceived or divided.
Explore Media Discernment →Local Community
Grassroots trust, neighbor support, and rebuilding belonging — why the local table matters and what the church was meant to be.
Explore Local Community →Recovery & Wholeness
Recovery, the Four Pillars of Wholeness, healthy accountability, and the slow work of rebuilding an ordinary life that holds.
Explore Recovery & Wholeness →AI & Technology
How algorithms, automation, and digital systems shape attention, truth, work, and community — from the first algorithm to the modern feed.
Explore AI & Technology →Start here
A few pages worth your time.
Universal Reconciliation
The historical and biblical case that love wins in the end — presented fairly, for study, not as a line you have to sign. A gentler version exists for anyone blocked by the fear of eternal hell.
Read it →The Four Pillars of Wholeness
Surrender, Healing, Renewal, and Service — the practical spine of the Common Ground Way, drawn from where many traditions quietly agree.
Read it →How the Bible Came Through History
A careful, sourced walk through how the text was transmitted and how belonging moved from households to parishes to public systems to a marketed faith.
Read it →Voices from the early church
Hope before hell hardened.
Four early Christian writers who took judgment seriously and still expected restoration. Each page gives what they actually wrote, in a named translation — and what scholars still argue about.
Origen of Alexandria
c. 185–253 · The early church’s most prolific biblical scholar. Condemned three centuries after his death — and still the clearest early case that the question was open.
Read Origen →Gregory of Nyssa
c. 335–395 · A canonised saint who helped settle how the church speaks about the Trinity, and thought evil would run out before God did.
Read Gregory →Clement of Alexandria
c. 150–215 · Taught at Alexandria, and assumed without controversy that God’s punishments were meant to work rather than merely to last.
Read Clement →Isaac of Nineveh
c. 613–700 · A bishop from the “wrong” side of a schism, read and revered by the churches that had split from his.
Read Isaac →This library is still being written.
New readings are added as they’re finished and checked. Some pages are evergreen and settled; others are early drafts we’re still sourcing. If a link isn’t live yet, it’s on the way.
We’d rather build something honest slowly than publish something shallow fast.
From reading to the room
The library points back to a table.
All of this is meant to be talked through with real people, not just read alone. If that’s what you’ve been missing, there’s an open seat.