What’s new on Feason

Razon — a scripture-grounded reasoning engine

Intelligence now has a second mode beside Chat: Razon. Where Chat is a companion you talk things through with, Razon is a colleague who insists on showing the work. It is built for the heavier theological questions — the ones where a confident-sounding answer is not enough.

• Cited by default. Every paragraph traces back to scripture, the Fathers, the councils, or named theologians, with the references inline.
• Verified before it answers. A second pass checks Razon's own draft against the sources it cites and flags anything that drifts.
• Refuses to invent. If the tradition is silent on a question, Razon says so rather than improvising.

Read it through your tradition

Theology is not read from nowhere. The new hermeneutical lens lets you tell Razon which tradition you are reading from — Catholic, Orthodox, Reformed, Anabaptist, Pentecostal, or simply Ecumenical — and the answer is shaped accordingly.

• Toggle the lens at the top of the Razon panel. The label reads "Tradition" so it is plain what you are choosing.
• Disagreement is surfaced, not flattened. When your chosen lens differs from another tradition's reading, the answer says so explicitly instead of papering over the gap.

Safety and disclosure

AI for serious theological study calls for serious guardrails. We have tightened them across the surface.

• Tooltips on the Intelligence and Razon tabs, the Tradition toggle, and the Razon eyebrow explain what each does, which model powers it, and the daily limit.
• Crisis-language detection. When a Razon prompt contains first-person self-harm or victimization language, the response leads with US and international hotlines before any AI-generated text.
• Empty-state disclaimer expanded. Razon is for serious study, may contain errors despite citation, and is not a replacement for pastoral guidance, theological education, or your church's teaching authority.
• Tagline updated to what the verifier actually delivers: "Every claim sourced. Every answer checked."
• CC BY 4.0 attribution for openbible.info cross-references and a credit for WEB scripture (public domain) at the bottom of the empty state.

Updated privacy policy

The privacy policy materially changed to match what Razon actually does. Existing signed-in users will see the "We've Updated Our Terms" modal on next visit and need to re-accept before continuing.

• Voyage AI added as a sub-processor for embeddings.
• Razon's safety-detection of input prompts is now documented in the AI features section.
• openbible.info attributed under CC BY 4.0.

An AI explanation of any verse

Tap a verse, hit Explain, and a focused AI explanation streams into the side panel — scoped to that single verse. When you have read it, the section collapses cleanly so the rest of the panel breathes.

Cross-tradition readings

A new Traditions section in the verse panel shows how six traditions read the same verse, side by side. Read the contrast yourself instead of guessing where the disagreement is.

Pick up where you left off

The homepage now carries a quiet link back to the last chapter you were reading. The reading habit gets a hand picking itself up.

Intelligence: more legible answers

• Avatars on each message so it is obvious who is speaking.
• Briefer answers by default — Intelligence stops sermonising and gets to the point.
• No em-dashes in answers. They were a tic; they are gone.
• Verses inside answers are now clickable and open the reader at the right place.

Tooltips for the jargony bits

Several scripture controls had labels that required a guess. Each of those now explains itself on hover, so the page teaches itself.

Web Push, alongside email

Notifications now ride Web Push in addition to email. Replies, listener gleams, group activity, and reactions arrive without you needing the tab open.

iOS PWA support

Install Feason to your iPhone home screen and notifications work as expected, with Open and Reply actions you can tap straight from the notification.

Streaks that nudge, not nag

• Milestone push at 7, 30, and 100 days, so you see the line you have walked.
• Streak-saver: a scheduled push lands roughly six hours before midnight in your local time zone if your streak is at risk that day.
• Visual feedback for streak growth at action sites across the app, not just on the profile.

More of the right events

• A new Gleam from someone you Listen to.
• A new member joins a group you are in.
• A like on your gleam, a reaction on your reflection.
• PWA app badge updates with the unread count, so the icon itself tells you when there is something to read.

Quiet cleanups under the hood

Old `forum_thread` references retired in favor of Articles, dead CSS swept out, tracked SQL migration files removed. The site is the same; the codebase is lighter.

The foundation

Groups are designed for the rhythm small groups actually keep: a weekly passage, a real meeting day, and the people who show up. We built the foundation in one pass and have been refining it since.

• Weekly meeting cadence anchored to a real date — not just a weekday — picked through a calendar grid popover.
• A banner image and a clean detail page for each group, with members shown alongside the reading.
• A rotating host so the same person is not always opening the meeting.

Meet inside the page

There is no separate meeting screen. Meeting mode is the group home itself, with past readings archived below.

• Read the passage inline. Tap a verse to anchor a reflection right where it lives.
• Prev / Next chapter buttons at the bottom of the inline passage so you can keep reading in flow.
• Reading-set, meeting-ended, and reply email notifications wired through.

Read together, react together

• Members can comment on the weekly reading, marked as either a Question or a Reflection.
• Replies one level deep — enough for a real conversation, shallow enough to stay readable.
• Quiet polish: settings pencil on cards, members aside on the reading hero, neutral secondary buttons, no destructive red.

Site-wide companions that came with Groups

• A unified tooltip system landed across the site so every interactive label can teach itself.
• A notifications inbox with deep-links straight to the comment or reply that triggered it.
• Public streaks on profiles, plus skeletons and empty states across slow-loading surfaces.
• Federated search that spans scripture, gleams, articles, and people.

Daily Verse

A new daily-verse page surfaces a passage every day and lets you "deepen" the loop without leaving the page. A small banner sits under the nav so the verse is visible from anywhere on the site, and the daily passage can be anchored from Intelligence or a Gleam.

Listen — follow without the noise

A new Sacred Heart button on profiles lets you Listen to a fellow. It is a follow without the social-media baggage: their gleams arrive in your notifications and inbox, and that is it.

Gleams reborn

• Per-mode grammar — Reflection, Question, Praise, Resource — so each kind of post has the language it deserves.
• Inline verse anchors. Type @james1:1 and the verse renders inline.
• Anchored Gleams now appear inline as fellowship comments on the verse they cite.
• +tag hashtags for surfacing themes across gleams.
• Character limit raised to 490 — long enough for a real thought, short enough to keep the feed scannable.
• Desktop filter brings the Daily Verse pill alongside the category chips.

Mission, expanded

The Mission page has been rewritten and redesigned. It says what Feason is for, what it is not, and who it is built with — without the "saints" register that read more like marketing than truth.

Doctrine and churches

• Eight doctrine pages brought up to the depth of the Catholic ones for parity.
• Detail pages for six historic churches you can browse from the Doctrines hub.
• A Browse view and an expanded Catechism + Mass section on /doctrines.

Lexicon and prayer

• Words already in your Lexicon are highlighted as you read scripture.
• The lexicon streak has been swapped for a prayer streak, which is closer to what people actually want to track.

Intelligence: Claude-style app-shell

Intelligence has been rebuilt around a real app-shell layout: a persistent threads sidebar, a clean composer, and a chat surface that fills the rest. Drag the sidebar to resize, collapse it on small screens, and your width preference saves automatically.

Gleams: a real moderation kit

• Reporting flow on every gleam so abusive posts have somewhere to go.
• Admin delete for the cases that need it.
• A scraper kill-switch we can flip if a bot starts mining the gleams feed.
• Composer hint that nudges people toward the kind of post the feed is meant to host.
• Resource Gleams: share a link and get a preview card, hardened against SSRF on the server.

Scripture, made editorial

The reader now opens like a book. A chapter hero anchors the page, a chapter ribbon runs across the top for jumping around, and a colophon closes the chapter with a "Continue to" link. The landing page and the notes page were redesigned to match.

Profile and email, redesigned

• Profile: editorial hero, rhythm grid, paginated activity. The page reads as one piece instead of three feeds stacked together.
• Notification and welcome emails redone in the brand system, so the inbox feels like the same product as the site.

Quote Map replaces Bible Graph

The old Bible Graph view has been replaced by Quote Map — a focused view of New Testament citations of the Old Testament, with the verse text rendered inline so you can read the connection, not just see it as a line on a chart.

Legal copy, sharpened

Terms and DMCA pages were beefed up with a real moderation policy, the DMCA agent address (info@feason.com), an explicit scraping disclosure, and clearer community guidelines.

A new home for Articles

The community Articles feed has been rebuilt to match the cadence of our long-form Writings. It is the same quiet frame, the same breathing room, now extended to everything the community publishes.

• Grid of covers. The feed now reads as a gallery — three columns of cover images with a small category badge, the title, and a single line from the piece itself. Skim it like a magazine table of contents.
• Split-hero article pages. Open any piece and you land on a full-bleed hero: the cover on the left, a colored panel on the right with the title, author, and date. The right panel carries a soft color drawn from the article itself, so every piece feels like its own issue.
• Clean reading flow underneath. Body text sits in a generous, serifed column below the hero. Replies and conversation follow at the bottom, where they belong.

Edit your published articles

Writing is rewriting. If you have already published an article and spotted a typo, a clumsy line, or a thought that needs another pass, you can now go back and change it.

• Edit button in the hero. On any article you authored, an Edit button appears alongside Share and Delete at the top of the hero.
• Same composer you wrote it in. Editing reuses the article composer so the experience is familiar — title, body, cover image, save.
• Only you can edit your own. Readers cannot change what you wrote, and you cannot change theirs.

Lexicon: save short phrases, not just words

Theology runs on phrases as much as words. Imago dei. Sola scriptura. Via negativa. Sensus plenior. Until today the Lexicon only accepted a single word at a time, which meant the phrases that mattered most often had nowhere to go.

• Highlight up to three words. Drag across a phrase and the familiar + Lexicon popup now appears, just like it does for a single word.
• Same AI companion, applied to phrases. Adding a phrase opens the same chat that unpacks a single word — now grounded in the phrase you actually selected.
• Tidy storage under the hood. Whitespace and capitalization are smoothed out before saving, so "Imago Dei" and "imago dei" end up as the same entry in your collection.

Polish

• Article hero buttons now read clearly on every background color — Edit, Delete, and Share all use a matching white-on-translucent treatment so nothing disappears when the panel is dark.

Intelligence — our new AI theology hub

The old Counsel page has been retired and replaced with Intelligence, a full-featured AI companion for theological study. You'll find it under Discernment in the nav, right alongside Journal and Lexicon.

• Saved conversations. Every chat is now persistent. Come back tomorrow and your threads are still there, neatly titled and organized.
• A real chat interface. Sidebar of past conversations on the left, active chat on the right. Start a new one, rename it, or delete it — your history is yours.
• Grounded in the tradition. Answers draw from Scripture, the Church Fathers, ecumenical councils, and the historic Christian witness. Scholarly when you need it, accessible always.
• Streaming responses that feel alive as the text comes in.

A more responsive layout

The Intelligence page adapts to how you work.

• Resizable sidebar. Hover the line between your chat history and the main panel — the cursor changes, and you can drag it narrower or wider to taste. Your setting saves automatically.
• Auto-compact mode. When you start chatting, the sidebar quietly slims down to give your reading more space.
• Mobile drawer. On phones, history tucks away into a slide-in panel so the chat itself takes the whole screen. Tap Chats at the top to open it.

Polish pass

• New chat button redesigned — clearer, warmer, and finally worthy of being the main action in the sidebar.
• Refined color palette on the chat history list to match Feason's sepia and ink aesthetic.
• Tightened typography so the first four suggestion prompts actually fit above the fold.
• Cleaner mobile form — no more accidental zoom when you tap the input on iOS.

Small fixes along the way

• Adding a word to your Lexicon while chatting no longer interrupts the conversation you're in.
• The floating chat bubble now hides when you're already on the Intelligence page (no point having two chats open at once).