ExegetingEverything

Substack run by @MrAshCunningham. An attempt to help every part of culture harmonise its cry of “Yours” with Jesus’s cry of “Mine”. Reviews & essays

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First post (long read): How (and why) to mow the lawn for Jesus.

What it means for God to be Lord over the banal & the beautiful, as well as the holy.

https://t.co/EvfzI0p6a3

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An only partially retributive post, questioning Dawkins' role in our public conversations... particularly regarding consciousness.

https://t.co/fNZLzYFzDa

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New long-read at the end of the first week of 2026.

On how we treat the past, look to the future & engage with the present - via stomp-clap; AI pornography & piano hall satirists.

https://t.co/VJGTTATz8V

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On banana chases and icy ends - a new post on the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen, and the craziest thing I actually believe.

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A new Faerie tale post for advent - written for those who feel the magic of Christmas, but don’t believe it’s there.

https://t.co/x5STLh4JrK

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On Emma Watson, and the need for a route back to sanity.

My first post since moving back up to Scotland.

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It is deeply unwise and wrong for 'gender criticals' to dismiss Emma Watson.

On the need for a way back for those who have been foolish, fearful or even wicked.

https://t.co/omM5RmgtzT

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A new post - on the way in which C.S. Lewis favoured Susan Pevensie above all his other creations... and how to let an invitation bring you into the party.

https://t.co/TFZbAwOI5c

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A new post - on the way in which C.S. Lewis favoured Susan Pevensie above all his other creations... and how to let an invitation bring you into the party.

https://t.co/TFZbAwOI5c

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I felt a little tense about this one: The Killing of a Sacred Imagination - what were humans made for?

On how innocuous habits & cultural norms can contradict our ethics & undermine Reality itself.

https://t.co/Nx4OUAOyrM

[ExegetingEverything @ExegetingEvery]

I felt a little tense about this one: The Killing of a Sacred Imagination - what were humans made for?

On how innocuous habits & cultural norms can contradict our ethics & undermine Reality itself.

https://t.co/Nx4OUAOyrM

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Quiet Revival - along with the Good Witch and other oxymorons.

How we need to correct our spiritual worldview to adapt to new opportunities.

“Revival doesn’t break out when the mob darken our doorstep. Revival breaks out when the Lord lights theirs up.”

https://t.co/9ALc48PCWN

[𝘼𝙨𝙝 𝘾𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙝𝙖𝙢 @MrAshCunningham]

“You can’t help nobody if you can’t tell them the right story.”

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New Post - looking at writers, musical artists and filmmakers who are thoughtfully engaging with culture in 2025.

From Sir Salman Rushdie starting his swan song all the way to the second wave of Brat and FKA Twig's journey with Carl Jung.

https://t.co/PQbYgVRNHy

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“Our world is a slowly rotating methadone clinic for all manner of evil”

How the Lily Philips documentary (and the man who filmed it) betrays our desire for moral dumping grounds so we may deposit our wickedness in a society-approved zone.

https://t.co/NfpqL6uUgF

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New post.

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It's after midnight, but I had to get this out of me before I slept.

8 anticipated consequences of the 'Assisted Dying Bill' which passed its second reading yesterday afternoon.

https://t.co/1n1D9pT5en

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New post - Cheap Trust

Why Truth is better than behaviour-modification, and how even a necessary cultural battle can be used to serve a false teacher (or ‘Why Wolves sometimes slay Dragons’)

https://t.co/5E6HorLKqx

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“One might argue that Jolly did a superb job with La Cène sur un Scène sur la Seine: accurately & rightly representing Parisian culture - both by subverting the Christian religion, and indeed, by taking a massive crap in the Seine”

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Against Seeking Offence
https://t.co/ddom0Sjkl5

The Olympic opening ceremony through the lens of Victor Hugo’s ‘𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 ��ℎ𝑎𝑡’: why offence is not a useful tool, and how missing the past can help us point to the future.

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“If you find a hungry enough man, offer him bread and give him a brick, he will shatter his own teeth.
And if you’re wondering who is wicked enough to prey upon such desperate people as that… you just need to find a greedy enough tooth fairy.”

https://t.co/ieP9ZKIMnO

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At approximately 3am this morning, while sat in hospital awaiting blood tests, I noticed the date.

With what consciousness I could muster, I wrote out my annual celebration of left-handedness, before this auspicious date could pass me by.

https://t.co/JHRMUrjfuZ