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Hey everyone, John here. Wanted to share some exciting news with you. My new book, Against the

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Waves, Christian Order in a Liberal Age, is now out. You can go to againstthewavesbook .com,

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againstthewavesbook .com to get a copy. And if you like it, please rate it high on Amazon or wherever else you might have purchased the book.

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The reason I wrote this book is really because I think we are in a precarious position, approaching potentially a crisis.

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And that crisis is over a lack of vision, a lack of a positive standard.

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My books on social justice were really attempts to explain and refute social justice theory.

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I wanted you to know that the left's utopian egalitarian standards are bad.

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You should reject them and we don't have to conform ourselves to them, even if they try to force them on us.

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This is different. I've realized that a lot of the ideologies and approaches that we see, which are buried now on the political right, are tethered to liberalism in some way.

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They're either cartoons, very simple ideological reductionistic takes that only exist and get their life because of liberalism.

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And they're not really rooted. And I really want us to have a holistic, rooted vision for what we really defend.

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And that's what this book is. Conservatism traditionally has been the

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God's order, the created order, mediated through tradition and applied in particular contexts for the good of people.

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And that's why we have the laws that we do.

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At least that's why we have had the laws that we've had. And it's more than just politics. This is a complete social approach, not a universal one in every sense, although there's universal values we're drawing upon.

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But I take a lot of my inspiration and applications into particular situations from the

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American decentralist tradition. So there's a lot about localism. You're going to see a lot of talk about what is a nation biblically.

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I refute the proposition nation. You're going to see a lot about leadership. I explain in the best way

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I know how, what managerial elitism is, why it's a threat, and what the alternative is, which is a virtuous leadership that we need to restore to our institutions, especially our

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Christian institutions. There's a lot in there about a lot of different things, but all problems that I've seen arising, especially since 2020.

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They've been around before that, but I'm seeing crisis points emerge where people really are trying to navigate questions that they haven't navigated before.

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I talk about same -sex attraction in the book. I talk about what lessons we can pull from the woke church controversy.

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And now that we have some distance from it, we can look back and gain some applications. I talk about national revival and what that might look like, and maybe even give you some hope, because I do see plenty of things to hope in.

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I think God's still working even when our Christian institutions fail us. So anyway, there's a lot more that could be said, but I don't want to give you the whole book.

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You got to read it yourself. Again, go to againstthewavesbook .com.

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It's available in Kindle. It's also available on Audible, so you can enjoy that as well if you're an audiobook kind of person, and let me know what you think.