If you would like to join me on a journey
From now until the end of July, I will be going on what I suspect is going to be an amazing journey.
It will be like this...
Each month, two book discussions:
One secular.
The other biblical.
By July, I expect them to converge.
The secular route will be more about the history of world events that have brought us to this moment in American history.
I grew up the son of ethnic baby boomers in working class Chicagoland. They believed in the American dream and the idealism stays with me, but also some of that disappointment of what has been allowed to become of the American dream stays with me.
What happened?!
How did we get here?
That is the secular route I will be taking.
And the second route...
For three years, I have realized something: there is only one way out of this mess.
That is the biblical route I will be taking.
The antidote to cultural Marxism is Christianity.
The antidote to globalism is Christianity.
The antidote to the health mandates is Christianity.
Sadly most Christians don’t realize that.
They are just a bunch of obedient cucks.
Christians are supposed to be obedient: obedient to God, not obedient to the most demonic commands of the world.
And over the course of these two converging, we will end up in some really neat places and we will also get to navigate through the backdrop of what is a historical election year in which the deep state appears ready to declare open warfare against the American dinner table — Donald Trump being a symbol of that.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is real.
But it is a cover for something all the more real: Jesus Derangement Syndrome.
Trump is a temporary substitute for the enemies of America to ridicule, as he ever-so-slightly stands in the way of the great weakening of America.
But there is so much more happening.
The real obstacle to the weakening of America is Jesus the Christ.
America doesn’t need Trump.
America needs Jesus.
Somewhere between now and July those themes will periodically cross.
A few handfuls of people to date have followed me into the book discussions that I have had over the last year or so.
Those discussions have been intimate, diligent, and a true time for both challenging each other and bonding with each other.
Over the last two months there have not been any book discussions and I’ve gotten an earful from some people — that is how much these discussions have come to mean in some people’s lives.
There is a neat thing that happens in that group as we debate and bond, practically in conspiracy against the world, as we each struggle through the most vexing questions of our own lives.
We don’t agree on everything, but we seem to agree that our group discussions are a pretty good place to hash out some of the most important questions of life.
I would like to invite you on that adventure.
If you are Christian I would like to invite you.
If you are NOT Christian I would like to invite you.
The conversation is not always all about God, though in my life I seem to see God’s fingerprints on more and more things than I ever realized possible, so I tend to see God behind the scenes quite a bit. It’s about discussing the most pressing matters of life in the context of some good books — books you aren’t likely to find on The New York Times bestseller list.
If you are just trying to make sense of the zany world we live in, I would like to invite you. If you are just a total know-it-all about the world I would still like to invite.
This is good time for any person eager to think through the concerns of our day, which are often concerns that have long been on the minds of valorous men and virtuous women.
The reading and discussions we will have during this powerful and monumental year in US history will leave you with a nuance more thorough than virtually anyone in the media.
Many of them are too busy working to stop and think.
We will be thinking through things.
Again, we won’t agree about everything and that’s okay.
What you will have is a chance to think through the hardest questions and deepest questions.
It will be the opposite of the distraction that is found in the media.
At once, you will see yourself discussing personalities as disparate as Johnny Carson, Alex Jones, Trotsky, George W. Bush, Karl Marx, Murray Rothbard, Whitney Webb, Ross Perot — as fellows discussion members lean on their own life experiences, and I have to tell you, I am proud to say that I have a readership with some really amazing life experiences.
These discussions end up being enriching if you just listen once in a while, even more enriching if you engage, and even more enriching if you make it a point to engage throughout.
But none of that is needed.
Come and go as you please.
Take and drink as you feel compelled.
Make a movable feast of the experience, making it a focal point of your year, or have a few intellectual hors d'oeuvres when you feel hungry.
It will be a powerful and varied experience that will leave you with a depth of knowledge on contemporary thought that will be very difficult to counter, very difficult to match — and with so much in the world to pay attention to, how beneficial it can be to have some time not just listening to a talking head, but to have time with peers as they share what their most pressing concerns.
And you will get to be a central part of the discussion, if you so choose.
This will be a most stimulating and significant year of both thought and action for me, and I believe it can be the same for you.
I look forward to that with you.
Come join me.
The first book discussion starts February 6.
It will be a religious topic, a biography of a praying working class man from Wales in the late 1800s, and early 1900s, who was changed mightily by his prayer life.
It may or may not be for you.
Before we reach Election Day 2024, I believe quite the tapestry will be woven from the death of Christ to the present day that will leave no one questioning how integral faith is to our current crisis and current solutions — even if you are agnostic or even atheist as I once was.
Only, where we end up in our discussion, I believe, will look very different than what anyone has ever described as the conversion of faith and American history.
Join me, in a very unique year of conversation. February 6 we get started.
This isn’t a year long commitment.
This is just a small step in that direction.
Tap here to join in from the very beginning.
Let’s live this year out together, let’s think this year through together, let’s take a journey together, one that I think will be unlike anything most people have ever gone on — perhaps even a journey that will be totally unique, totally encouraging, and totally unrepeatable.
That’s the kind of journey I believe is ahead.
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Allan Stevo