Journal
Grain’s own writing
Short studies tied to something we list, field reports on what the work actually involves, and plain explainers for the things people mean to start and never do.
The rhythm is fixed and small: one piece a week, one featured resource per charter. We would rather publish six things a reader finishes than fifty a reader skims. Nothing here is sponsored.
- What it is
- Grain’s own writing — short studies on a text, field reports on what a kind of work actually involves, and plain how-to-start guides. Each piece points at something you can act on in New Grain or Ripened Harvest.
- What it’s not
- Not a blog of opinions, and not sponsored. If a piece cannot point to something a reader can start, it does not run here. No organisation pays to be written about.
- How to use it
- Read the latest, or jump to a kind — study, how to start, field report, interview, note. Every piece links to the listing it is about, so you can go from reading to doing.
Latest
How to startNew GrainHow to go on a short-term trip without making it worse
The critiques of short-term missions are largely correct. Here is how to go anyway, on different terms.
First in an occasional series on the things people want to do and cannot work out how to begin.
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Study
A text, read slowly, and what it asks of a reader who intends to act on it.
How to start
The administrative truth about something that looks like a wall from outside.
Field report
What the work looks like from inside, assembled from what practitioners publish.
What we publish
Writing tied to something we list. If a piece cannot point at an opportunity or a course a reader can start this month, it is an essay, and there are better places to read essays. We correct in public and date every change.