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Greetings to all of you who’ve followed along with Passio. Whether you just recently tuned in, or you’ve been following us for a good while, we really appreciate you giving a little bit of your precious time and attention to our quirky and somewhat esoteric project!

Our new year announcement, which may be surprising, is this: the Passio Project is coming to an end. If you’ve been a paid supporter, we’ll stop those payments, but we can’t thank you enough for trusting and supporting us in that way. It’s been hugely encouraging, even as we’ve often felt we’re flailing around in the dark 😄

Times change, priorities change — Substack has changed! — none of which is any drastic reason to stop, but this is a season of life where we want to do less things, and do them better. We also could have left things open-ended, but we’ve talked about it a while and we agreed to call a definite stop to this particular project, with the hope of doing a better job at willing the one thing.

And fear not! If you’ve been invested in any of the ongoing writing here, there are still ways to stay connected to it.

Perhaps most obviously: our ‘slow research project’, Ulterior Lives, will resurface at David Benjamin Blower’s own Substack — we’re also talking to publishers about other possibilities.. (you may remember we mentioned potential print projects in 2026, and this is still true, but it’ll be in a different guise). But if you’ve enjoyed David’s contributions do give him a follow.

Our popular guests Vanessa Chamberlin (The Tuning Fork), Sam Ewell (Desiring Life) and Elizabeth Oldfield (Fully Alive) of course have their own excellent Substack pages.

The Passionist Order who initiated and supported this project will also be dropping stories and reflections on their website over the coming months, so if you found that dimension of things interesting, then take a look!

Many blessings,

Chris, David + Paschal