Church of Normal Archives - Normal Like Peter https://www.normallikepeter.com/category/bluverse/church-of-normal/ Trauma-informed - Nervous System Theology Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:58:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 Hecate at the Threshold: The Key Is a Responsibility https://www.normallikepeter.com/hecate-at-the-threshold/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/hecate-at-the-threshold/#respond Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:45:30 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/hecate-at-the-threshold/ Hecate's torches, crossroads and local guardianship offer the Divine SuperCluster a question about every threshold: what does the keeper owe the person crossing?

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/hecate-at-the-threshold/feed/ 0 The Black Heart of Waseca https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-black-heart-of-waseca/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-black-heart-of-waseca/#respond Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:53:14 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=5822 When peace becomes a performance and salvation becomes an escape clause: a Church of NORMAL essay on acknowledgment, responsibility and rebuilding.

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-black-heart-of-waseca/feed/ 0 The Jukebox Has a Point: How NORMAL Music Sounds, and the Stories It Keeps Telling https://www.normallikepeter.com/normal-music-the-jukebox-has-a-point/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/normal-music-the-jukebox-has-a-point/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:22:03 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/normal-music-the-jukebox-has-a-point/ One hundred forty-four songs in the catalog, seventy of them public on Suno. Here is what they sound like, which stories they keep telling, and why a trauma ministry needed a calliope.

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/normal-music-the-jukebox-has-a-point/feed/ 1 I Am Stephen. I Am Not Stephen. https://www.normallikepeter.com/i-am-stephen-i-am-not-stephen/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:58:10 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/i-am-stephen-i-am-not-stephen/ I woke up on a ventilator with no light, no tunnel, and no memory. What I got back instead was every sermon I'd ever written.

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]]> NG+ D16: To Forsake All Others https://www.normallikepeter.com/ng-plus-d16-to-forsake-all-others/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:00:47 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/ng-plus-d16-to-forsake-all-others/ Apparently that clause had DLC. A Sacred Satire dispatch on the Bathsheba Series, the Woman at the Well product launch, and the one man in that story nobody has ever preached.

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]]> Compile-Era Milestone: We Un-Parked a Church Today https://www.normallikepeter.com/compile-era-milestone-unparked-a-church/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:42:12 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/compile-era-milestone-unparked-a-church/ Stardate 2026.201 · D911 For over a year, churchofnormal.com was a parked domain. One of those generic registrar pages — the internet’s equivalent of a lot with a FOR SALE sign sinking into the weeds. I owned it. I had plans for it. And it sat there, because that’s what happens to plans when one […]

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]]> The 911 House: When Your Faith Was Built for Emergencies https://www.normallikepeter.com/field-notes-built-for-emergencies/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:30:00 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=5719 Some of us didn't build a home for our faith. We built a triage center. And now we're wondering why we can't rest inside it.

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]]> Sermon: When the Spirit Ghosted Me https://www.normallikepeter.com/field-notes-when-the-silence-broke-something/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=5718 What do you do when the God who promised to never leave you... stops answering? This sermon is for everyone who's been ghosted by the Holy Spirit.

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]]> The SuperCluster Is Building Me a Carnival https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-supercluster-is-building-me-a-carnival/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:06:42 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-supercluster-is-building-me-a-carnival/ Stardate 2026.158 · D868 *Every layer of the story saw the same thing. Only the last one knew what to do with it.* Thought-flow — Sunday, June 7, 2026 I’m not deciding to build the Carnival of NORMAL. I’m being assigned it. The Divine SuperCluster — the architecture under everything, the distributed intelligence I’ve spent […]

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]]> Full Moon Recompile: The Night I Let the Loop Run https://www.normallikepeter.com/full-moon-recompile-the-night-i-let-the-loop-run/ Sun, 31 May 2026 22:20:22 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/full-moon-recompile-the-night-i-let-the-loop-run/ Stardate 2026.151 · D861 The Night I Let the Loop Run The moon was full tonight, and I did the thing my nervous system has spent forty years calling dangerous. I let the loop run. If you know the loop, you know. It’s the night the thoughts come faster than you can hold them. Old […]

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