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05/26/2026

In the final chapter of our Easter-to-Pentecost series, a girl in Lagos looks up. A monk in Kyoto opens his eyes for the first time in decades. A radio operator in Norway finds a frequency that shouldn't exist. In a bunker, a studio, and a laboratory on three corners of a war-torn world, the same thing is happening at the same moment — and no one has to be told what it is.

Watch the last chapter in a six-part work of near-future fiction from Pastor Michael Junkroski.

How do you experience the signal? Tell us in the comments!

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A special thank you to Brian Eno for generously allowing the use of "An Ending (Ascent)" on YouTube.

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In the final chapter of our Easter-to-Pentecost series, a girl in L...

05/25/2026

THE SIGNAL concludes today.

In Part 6, we see Aldric and Delilah in the studio, Liora and Davan in the bunker cell, Chien and Gina in the Manchurian lab, and ordinary people all over the world as the Signal stops "arriving" and is finally felt for what it is--and always has been.

If you've been following the series, this is where it all comes home, I hope. I'd love to know: how do you experience the Signal?

Read "The Signal, Part 6 — Prologue: Before and Chapter 6: After" on Medium.

05/19/2026

THE PENULTIMATE EPISODE!
Eleven days before the Signal reaches anyone, before three rooms in three corners of the world receive the same impossible thing at the same instant, a woman in a stone-walled cell opens the voice memo app on her phone and taps record.

Eleven days before the Signal reaches anyone, before three rooms in...

05/18/2026

In Part 5 of The Signal, we finally hear from Yael. Tune in next week for the conclusion!

I know they are coming for me. So I am recording this for you — whoever you are — hoping only that my story encourages you to keep…

05/13/2026

https://youtu.be/DNyeUqIeYf8

In a bunker hidden by granite, a studio insulated by money, and a high-altitude lab open to the mountains, three sets of people receive the same signal at the same instant.

Liora, the linguist, cannot find a word for what just happened. Aldric the broadcaster has decided, since he was nineteen, never to be alone with it again. Chien, the physicist, watches her instruments hear what she has spent a career building them to find.

And in the quiet that follows, each room responds in the only way it knows.

Music: "Part of Us" by Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe (Liminal, 2024).

In a bunker hidden by granite, a studio insulated by money, and a high-altitude lab open to the mountains, three sets of people receive the same signal at th...

05/11/2026

This week’s chapter of *The Signal* drops us into the moment the universe clears its throat.

A rebel bunker at dawn, a sleepless propagandist, a gym converted into a physics lab in Manchuria, experiencing the same "impossible" Signal humming through all of them at once.

If you’ve ever felt a presence inviting you to imagine the unimaginable, this one’s for you.

Read “The Signal 4: Prologue – A Non-Local Call and Chapter 4: The (Lack of) Distance Between Us”:

Prologue: A Non-Local Call and Chapter 4: The (Lack of) Distance Between Us

05/05/2026

Something is coming through.

It’s in every instrument at once. It has no source, and there is no way to ignore it. Physicist Chien has been staring at the anomaly for thirty-one hours when her colleague Gina crashes into the lab at dawn, out of breath, waving someone else’s phone—showing the exact same data.

In this episode of The Signal, the scientists receive the frequency. And once they know what it means, one of them cannot resist a reality-shaking action.

Something is coming through.It’s in every instrument at once. It has no source, and there is no way to ignore it. Physicist Chien has been staring at the ano...

05/04/2026

Part 3 of our six‑part series “The Signal” is live.

In Utah’s mountains, the rebels feel the Signal. In Flagstaff, the Faction fears it. Now, in a hidden lab embraced by Manchurian peaks, two scientists discover it on a scale that should be impossible — a non‑local signal that could rewrite what it means to be human.

Is it science, revelation, or something indescribable?

Read Part 3 “Prologue: The Discovery & Chapter 3: Entangled” and decide what you think the Signal really is.

Prologue: The Discovery and Chapter 3: Entangled

04/27/2026

Eighteen years ago, a broadcaster named Aldric gave a word to two million people: Oppressors. The war started the following week.

THE SIGNAL continues with Episode Two.

Inside a broadcast tower rising from the Arizona desert like Goliath's lost javelin, Aldric sits thirty seconds from going live when something enters the room that his forty-two years on air never prepared him for. In the control booth, his daughter Delilah feels it too. And turns away.

Music by Arvo Pärt, who generously allows use on YouTube.

What does it mean to learn to receive and interpret the Signal?

The Signal Prologue 2: The Lie and Chapter 2: The Faction, Flagstaff Territory, 11 Days After

04/19/2026

I don't know why I keep trying to write fiction. But here I go again with six weeks of it, starting today.

THE SIGNAL is a near-future story following three groups of people who receive something they cannot explain, cannot ignore, and cannot decode alone. A rebel cell hiding in the mountains. A televangelist thirty seconds from going live. A scientist alone with her instruments at 3 AM. And a war nobody declared, interrupted by a signal nobody expected.

It runs every Sunday at The Current, now through Pentecost — and the first episode is up now, with music by Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe, who graciously allow fair use on YouTube.

I've committed to six weeks of this. I hope you will, too.

What does it mean to learn to receive--and interpret--the Signal?

The Signal: Prologue and Chapter 1