Truth & Tech

This is a general update to some of the things happening at Truth and Tech! I’ve got a lot going on and I am pretty excited about it!

Updates!

The Truth and Tech Newsletter

I’ve started producing a newsletter that goes out weekly on Substack and the premise is simple: synthesize the week’s most important news through a Christian worldview and get it into your inbox on by Saturday.

The process is worth explaining. Claude Code – Anthropic’s AI research assistant – reviews all the source material I would normally consume myself: news feeds, cybersecurity advisories, financial reporting, podcasts, and Christian commentary. It drafts the synthesis; I set the sources, the editorial framework, and the theological direction, and every issue goes through my review before it publishes. The result reflects my perspective. Claude makes it possible to produce it consistently.

The newsletter is based on five domains: cybersecurity, AI, global news, economics, and faith. The most important news in these domains gets reviewed and then added as appropriate into a single weekly newsletter. Each issue closes with a longer essay that takes one htread from the week and develops it through a biblical lens. Add in a section of “for the family” and a Bible passage for the week and it ends up being just as much an encouragement as an opportunity to be informed.

The latest issue was published today! Want to read along? Subscribe here!

New Docs!

I have updated the Documents page with a Bible study template and an updated PowerShell cheat sheet for 2026. A Python cheat sheet is in the works. Take a look and let me know: what would make them more useful, and what is not helpful? See them on the Documents Page.

Sola Scriptura – An Obsidian Vault for Bible Study!

This is the project I’m most excited about! I have invested a fair bit into building out an Obsidian vault that is focused on helping people to study Scripture. It has some more tweaks to get it ready, but I am close! And I can’t wait to get this tool to those who are excited about Bible study!

Obsidian is a free but powerful note-taking application that is exceptionally helpful for those who like to link notes to each other and tie thoughts and ideas together. You can create vaults which serve as containers for the notes and information you place in them. So, what makes this so exciting? Well, here’s what’s in it:

Three complete Bible translations — American Standard Version (primary), King James Version, and World English Bible — all 66 books, 1,189 chapters each, in Obsidian markdown. No importing, no conversion. Open the vault, click a chapter, and you are reading. The KJV and ASV come with Treasury of Scripture Knowledge cross-references built in — verse-by-verse wikilinks to parallel passages throughout both testaments, already there when you open the chapter.

14,197 Strong’s Concordance entries, one step away. Every Hebrew and Greek entry has its own note, organized by number. Type [[G3056]] from any note and it opens logos. Type [[H430]] and you are in elohim. The lexicon is in the vault — ready whenever word study pulls you in.

Six reference works in the vault, all searchable and linkable:

• Nave’s Topical Bible — 5,242 topic entries
• Easton’s Bible Dictionary — 3,959 entries on biblical people, places, and concepts
• Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening — 732 daily devotionals
• Westminster Confession of Faith — 35 chapters
• Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechisms — 303 Q&A combined
• Heidelberg Catechism — 129 questions across 52 Lord’s Days

Here is what each of those actually gives you. Nave’s and Easton’s are the tools you reach for when a verse raises a question: Nave’s collects every other passage in Scripture on the same topic so you can trace an idea across both testaments; Easton’s provides the historical and cultural background behind the word, person, or place. Strong’s indexes every Hebrew and Greek word in the Bible by number, so you can see what the original language actually says underneath the English — critical when you are trying to decide whether “faith” in Hebrews 11 carries the same weight as “belief” in James 2.

Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening is a year of brief devotional readings from one of the most gifted preachers the church has produced: two per day, each anchored to a single verse, worth reading slowly. The Westminster Confession and catechisms are the doctrinal architecture of orthodox Reformed Christianity, organized question-by-answer with Scripture proof texts attached to every claim. The Heidelberg Catechism covers the same ground through a more pastoral frame — the Apostles’ Creed, the Ten Commandments, the Lord’s Prayer — structured so a person works through it week by week across a year. All of it lives alongside your study notes in the same vault, searchable and a single link away.

Five Bible reading plans — 5-Day, Canonical Order, M’Cheyne, NT + Psalms/Proverbs, and Chronological — all pre-built and structured so you can start today.

Six study templates built on sound hermeneutics. Full Bible Study, Clausal/Propositional Study, Community Bible Study, Book/Chapter/Verse Question, Books of the Bible Overview, and Small Group — insert any of them into a new note with a single keystroke. The Full template walks you through pericope context, translations, word studies, theological big idea, fallen condition, gospel application, personal application, and illustrations in a single structured note.

30,099 notes in one vault. The KJV and ASV include Treasury of Scripture Knowledge cross-references — verse-by-verse wikilinks to parallel passages, already built in. Strong’s is one bracket away from anywhere. The reference works are all there alongside your study notes, searchable and linkable. You provide the connections between Scripture, theology, and your own observations; the vault provides everything you need to make them.

Obsidian itself is free for personal use. Everything in this vault is built on public-domain resources. What you are getting is the curation, conversion, linking, and structure — a serious Bible-study environment that would take a lot of investment to build from scratch.

I am getting close to a release date, and I want your input before I set the price. Would you pay $30 for these tools? I’ll be releasing videos on how to use it just for those who purchase it to make it even easier to unlock this tool. Let me know if that seems fair!