Sola Exemplum
Sola Exemplum

You've had a difficult life.
Why?

There's a reason. Let's talk about it.

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Before you read on

  • Have you been told your pain was your fault?
  • Are you tired of answers that don't hold?
  • Why can't you shake the feeling that something is still true?
  • Have you stopped hoping, or just stopped saying it out loud?
  • Do you know the difference between being broken and being awake?
  • Is there anyone you can talk to about this?

If any of those landed — this is for you.

The argument

Sola Exemplum is the argument that the world is not broken.

That what you have been through was not a mistake. That meaning is not a consolation we invent after the fact, but the thing the world is here to produce. And that Jesus was telling you something the institution built in his name has spent two thousand years pointing away from.

The latest writing

The question no one answered

7 min read

The problem isn't that you stopped believing. The problem is that nothing else has been equal to the thing you stopped believing in. Something rang true, and nothing after it has rung the same way. That unfinished signal is what this book was written to name.

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The world does not hurt because God forgot you. It hurts because what happens here is the whole point.

— From The Primer

The books

  1. Start with this one if you're new

    Sola Exemplum: Primer

    The way in — the argument told without the academic machinery.

  2. The primary source

    Sola Exemplum

    The full case, made carefully — history, philosophy, and what the texts actually say.

  3. The official texts

    Sola Exemplum: Testament

    The ancient texts, reworked and curated — the signal before the institution got to it.

  4. A book for atheists

    Sola Exemplum: Bullshit

    For the atheist who has seen through every story on offer — an argument that what feels like being broken is actually being awake.

  5. Nag Hammadi commentary

    Sola Exemplum: Hidden James

    A close reading of the Hidden Book of James — a witness the institution left out.

  6. Nag Hammadi commentary

    Sola Exemplum: Revealer

    On the Dialogue of the Revealer — a human teacher reporting back on what he found.

  7. Nag Hammadi commentary

    Sola Exemplum: Thomas

    A line-by-line read of the sayings gospel — Jesus without the cross, without the creed.