No. 14 · Religion
“The Covenant”
Religion Mountain — October seventeenth at five, a volunteer chaplain's badge renewal arrives with one new paragraph.
Sep 30, 2026
Field Cases
When the demand comes, what do you say?
Ordinary believers, real techniques, fictional composites. Every case names what is being run on you and gives you the words to use — one mountain at a time, a new case every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Rather listen? Every case is also an episode of the podcast.
No. 13 · Family
“The Addendum”
Family Mountain — October third at five o'clock, a foster mother's license renewal arrives with one new page.
Sep 28, 2026
No. 12 · Education
“The Disposition”
November — a teacher-prep senior is told his convictions are a professional deficiency.
Sep 25, 2026
No. 11 · Business
“The Attestation”
Business Mountain — a bank officer is given until Friday at five to sign that a client he trusts is a risk.
Sep 23, 2026
No. 10 · Business
“The Lettering”
A custom cake order, a message he can't write, and a Saturday pickup four days out.
Sep 22, 2026
No. 09 · Education
“The Hallway”
October, a public middle school: a mother's question about her daughter's privacy comes back as a question about her compliance.
Sep 22, 2026
No. 08 · Arts & Entertainment
“The Set List”
Tuesday night email, Thursday rehearsal: cut the verses or step aside.
Sep 21, 2026
No. 07 · Media
“The Letters Page”
Tuesday afternoon: a publisher decides which letters are community comment and which are advocacy.
Sep 18, 2026
No. 06 · Education
“The Room”
Week one of the semester — a campus club is told its statement of faith must come off the charter.
Sep 17, 2026
No. 05 · Government
“The New Form”
Thursday, seven twelve a.m. — a marriage-license form is revised overnight, and a county clerk has thirty-one hours to sign her name under a creed.
Sep 16, 2026
No. 04 · Religion
“The Courtesy”
October — the interfaith council asks for the pulpit, and gives the church nine days to answer.
Sep 14, 2026
No. 03 · Family
“The Assignment”
Nine forty at night: a nurse is scheduled onto a procedure her conscience forbids, and told that saying no is refusing patient care.
Sep 11, 2026
No. 02 · Education
“The Instruction”
Education Mountain — a written support plan, a Friday deadline, and a mother nobody has told.
Sep 9, 2026
No. 01 · Business
“The Pledge”
When your job requires you to affirm what you don't believe
Sep 8, 2026