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These days, I am a major digital minimalist. Maybe you can relate. I've stripped my phone down to the essentials: calls, texts, maps, and the occasional e-book. I don't even keep email on it. |
I started making changes like this years ago, once I realized how dangerously good social media companies had gotten at capturing my attention. I'd lose hours to the algorithm before I knew it. |
The news is like that too. There’s always something new. It doesn’t stop, whether it's morning, nighttime, weekdays, or weekends. That's a big part of why we send our newsletters just once a day, by email. |
We want you to be informed: to understand how the world is changing and where we're all headed, without the media's spin. What we don't want is to pull your attention away from what actually matters: family, faith, and room to breathe. |
About four years ago — digital minimalism aside — I started to religiously observe the Sabbath. Full, off-the-grid, spiritual observance. It’s been the most powerful change I’ve made in my life since. |
That leads me to the long-coming change we're making. |
A few months ago, we paused our Saturday edition to make room for the Sabbath. We were floored by the flood of positive responses. The biggest ask we got was “please do Sunday too.” We’ve had this planned for a while, and we're finally getting around to what we started. |
So, starting the 12th, we'll pause the Sunday emails too. |
(Don’t worry: the Sunday content won’t disappear. Instead of pinning it to a fixed spot on the calendar, we'll fold it into an extra email during the week whenever the stories call for it, like our recent one on Graham Platner.) |
During his rise, Charlie Kirk came to treasure the Sabbath through his friendship with Dennis Prager. He made a bold stance in favor of it — and promoted it publicly. He made it cool. His last book urged people of every background to reclaim a day of rest. |
I’ve always been hesitant to speak publicly on faith, but I’m borrowing Charlie’s confidence on this one. Our entire team at this point already observes the Sabbath, and we know that for most of our readers, that’s on Sunday. |
So, we hope you join us in slowing down and making room for faith, tradition, and rest. |
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One more thing, and this one's just for you. Right now, you're a free reader and only getting a preview of Upward News. |
We're grateful you're here for it. But there's a fuller version of this, the one our members wake up to every morning, and it's the difference between catching a headline and truly understanding what’s going on. |
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What we offer is this: You read for a few minutes, set the phone down with a clearer head instead of angrier, and carry the day with the context to see what's really happening, the clarity to make up your own mind, and the rare calm of being well-informed without being buried under it all. |
The next time someone you love is rattled by a headline, you'll be the one who can steady them and explain what's really going on. |
And we'll never pretend to be neutral about what matters most. We love this country and honor the faith and the traditions that built it, and we intend to use every inch of this platform to defend them: for you, for your children, and for a world that too easily forgets them. |
If that's a mission you believe in, we need your support to sustain it. |
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With gratitude, |
— Ariel David |
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