Fred Smullin
@fredsmullin.bsky.social
Husband, father, grandfather, veteran, software engineer, author, pastor, mystic.
You can find my writing on Amazon and at:
https://www.fredsmullin.com/
You can find my writing on Amazon and at:
https://www.fredsmullin.com/
Advent invites us into that kind of hope: a hope that waits, a hope that listens, a hope that trusts silence long enough for the whisper of Christ to reach us finally.
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Hope When God Feels Silent
You are the God who waits until my heart is ready
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December 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Advent invites us into that kind of hope: a hope that waits, a hope that listens, a hope that trusts silence long enough for the whisper of Christ to reach us finally.
chasingadventrebels.substack.com/p/hope-when-...
chasingadventrebels.substack.com/p/hope-when-...
Thomas shows us that sometimes faith collapses not because it’s failing, but because God is reshaping it.
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Hope Through Disappointment
Your wounds are not the end of your story.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Thomas shows us that sometimes faith collapses not because it’s failing, but because God is reshaping it.
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Step into Advent with a quiet moment of hope. Read the First Sunday devotional and let a single candle’s light stir your spirit this season.
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First Sunday of Advent — Hope
Come back for me, too
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November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Step into Advent with a quiet moment of hope. Read the First Sunday devotional and let a single candle’s light stir your spirit this season.
chasingadventrebels.substack.com/p/first-sund...
chasingadventrebels.substack.com/p/first-sund...
Help us place hope into the hands of homeless youth—a warm lunch, a gentle reminder they’re seen, loved, and not alone. Your support becomes nourishment and dignity.
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Lunches of Love Ministry
In the heart of Salt Lake City, a beacon of hope shines at First Baptist Church of Salt Lake City, Utah.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Help us place hope into the hands of homeless youth—a warm lunch, a gentle reminder they’re seen, loved, and not alone. Your support becomes nourishment and dignity.
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For the weary and wandering: Advent walks through walls. If you’re hiding like Thomas, come—hope is looking for you. Subscribe to join this journey starting Sunday.
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Introduction
This devotional is for the rebels.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
For the weary and wandering: Advent walks through walls. If you’re hiding like Thomas, come—hope is looking for you. Subscribe to join this journey starting Sunday.
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"We have a guest submission today from my friend, Josh Gohlke. Josh’s excellent piece makes a stark argument: that under the guise of budget cuts and political posturing, America’s food-support systems are being deliberately eroded."
Making America hungry again
Guest Submission from Josh Gohlke
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November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"We have a guest submission today from my friend, Josh Gohlke. Josh’s excellent piece makes a stark argument: that under the guise of budget cuts and political posturing, America’s food-support systems are being deliberately eroded."
Happening this Sunday. Please join us. #SaltLakeCity
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Happening this Sunday. Please join us. #SaltLakeCity
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A middle finger to erasure.
More of this, please. Now do Black Lives Matter!
More of this, please. Now do Black Lives Matter!
October 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A middle finger to erasure.
More of this, please. Now do Black Lives Matter!
More of this, please. Now do Black Lives Matter!
Please join us tonight
October 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Please join us tonight
Join us if you are in the #SaltLakeCity area
October 20, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Join us if you are in the #SaltLakeCity area
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This Guide's cult‑breaking tactics show how repeating simple slogans can expose hidden networks—just like the secret deals between rich perverts buying children and their accomplices. https://americanmanifesto.news/anti-maga-messaging-guide-v1
September 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This Guide's cult‑breaking tactics show how repeating simple slogans can expose hidden networks—just like the secret deals between rich perverts buying children and their accomplices. https://americanmanifesto.news/anti-maga-messaging-guide-v1
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This is a fair point.
September 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This is a fair point.
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This is the best article anyone in the US can read today.
America is no longer descending into fascism. We are seconds away from impact
Military occupation has come to DC. If and when military occupation comes to where you are, there are things that you can do. This article outlines some of them
Military occupation has come to DC. If and when military occupation comes to where you are, there are things that you can do. This article outlines some of them
How To Fight A Military Occupation
Friction. Obstruction. Demoralization.
www.bannedinyourstate.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is the best article anyone in the US can read today.
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Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
August 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
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That escalated quickly.
July 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
That escalated quickly.
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Every protest march should have one
July 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Every protest march should have one
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I submitted my nonfiction short story, "The Heart," to Letter Review for publication. I hope to hear in October whether I'm one of the four authors selected or one of the twenty authors shortlisted.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky
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#WritingCommunity #Booksky
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Letter Review – Stories, Poems, Nonfiction, Interviews, Prizes - The Letter Review
New Writing Translations & Icarus (Revised) – New Poetry by KM Kramer 25/06/2025 The Sleeping Spaceman – New Short Fiction by Jonathan Glinsky 25/06/2025 Selisha – New Novel Extract by Roy Schmidt 25/...
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July 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I submitted my nonfiction short story, "The Heart," to Letter Review for publication. I hope to hear in October whether I'm one of the four authors selected or one of the twenty authors shortlisted.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky
letterreview.com
#WritingCommunity #Booksky
letterreview.com
I asked ChatGPT to design a book cover for me, and this is what it generated. It's way better than previous attempts. The difference is that I asked ChatGPT to recommend a prompt that would design the cover based on the first chapters of my memoir. What do you think?
June 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I asked ChatGPT to design a book cover for me, and this is what it generated. It's way better than previous attempts. The difference is that I asked ChatGPT to recommend a prompt that would design the cover based on the first chapters of my memoir. What do you think?
You have no place to lay your head—
and yet you are my home.
You ask for my whole heart—
and yet you mend it as I offer it.
You demand the now—
and yet you are patient as I learn to let go.
#Christianity #Psalms
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and yet you are my home.
You ask for my whole heart—
and yet you mend it as I offer it.
You demand the now—
and yet you are patient as I learn to let go.
#Christianity #Psalms
open.substack.com/pub/beseiged...
Psalm for the Pilgrim: I Will Follow
Inspired by Luke 9:51–62
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June 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
You have no place to lay your head—
and yet you are my home.
You ask for my whole heart—
and yet you mend it as I offer it.
You demand the now—
and yet you are patient as I learn to let go.
#Christianity #Psalms
open.substack.com/pub/beseiged...
and yet you are my home.
You ask for my whole heart—
and yet you mend it as I offer it.
You demand the now—
and yet you are patient as I learn to let go.
#Christianity #Psalms
open.substack.com/pub/beseiged...