The NXR Podcast - American Glory - Religious Wars Are Coming — Build Christian Towns Now

00:00:00.000 Today on American Glory, we're discussing the future religious wars in America

00:00:03.660 and the necessity of building Christian towns. In my weekly audit, we'll take a look at both

00:00:09.080 a Christian town and an Islamic town, and how Christians should be thinking about America's

00:00:13.880 future. All that and more, coming up right now.

00:00:30.000 Welcome to American Glory. This is season two on American Christianity. I'm your host, 0.60

00:00:34.440 Dale Partridge. This is episode six of season two, and it's titled,

00:00:38.440 Religious Wars Are Coming, Start Building Christian Towns. Now, this season, I'm covering

00:00:43.640 eight topics around American Christianity. In the last episode, I asked the question,

00:00:48.320 will your church survive what's coming? And I explained the necessity of what I called

00:00:53.320 wartime churches and wartime pastors. Now, today's episode functions a bit as a part two

00:00:58.540 and approaches the question, if Muslims and Hindus are willing to cross oceans to establish

00:01:04.360 religious towns in our country, why aren't Christians willing to relocate, consolidate,

00:01:09.700 and build religious towns in our own country? In this episode, we're going to be talking about

00:01:14.700 four key ingredients for establishing Christian towns in America. Now, if you didn't know,

00:01:20.960 American Glory is both a podcast and a video show. And if you want to listen, you can listen

00:01:25.580 at the NXR podcast feed, or you can just search American Glory on Google, and you're going to

00:01:30.080 find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Now, if you want to watch

00:01:34.120 the video, and it comes with helpful slides, a documentary style, as I say every week,

00:01:37.960 and it's available at my YouTube channel, at Dale Partridge TV. Now, one thing I want you to

00:01:43.760 remember, this video is cultural warfare, and the battle is often in the comments. Now, if you're

00:01:51.380 willing, I'm just going to ask you, leave a positive comment on this video. It really does

00:01:55.300 help demonstrate to the normies that these ideas are not extreme, and it gives confidence to those

00:02:01.780 people who are influenced by consensus mindsets. So it's a small task, I know, but it really does

00:02:07.500 help. So on that note, let's begin. America is no longer a nation. It's a war zone of competing

00:02:16.080 peoples. For 70 years, we were told that nationalism was the great danger, that borders

00:02:21.860 were cruel, that preferring your own people was racist. We were sold a dream of a borderless,

00:02:27.980 multi-ethnic, multi-religious empire that would be held together by tolerance and GDP. We were told

00:02:34.040 that race and ethnicity wouldn't affect our national unity and that religion could be

00:02:38.900 privatized. We were told that nationalism produced terrible wars and multiculturalism

00:02:44.100 would teach us to be more accepting and bring greater peace. 0.97

00:02:48.200 And our fathers accepted it.

00:02:50.880 But what was sold as progress to them

00:02:53.440 has been delivered to us as nothing but national chaos. 1.00

00:02:58.620 Diversity is just a clever way to reduce Western people in their own lands. 1.00

00:03:03.700 Tolerance was used to pacify our discernment against evil. 0.99

00:03:07.880 Equality was preached to make us feel guilty for our heritage and strengths. 0.95

00:03:12.860 But on one point, they were right. 0.94

00:03:15.280 Nationalism does produce wars between other nations. 0.63

00:03:18.520 But what they didn't tell us is that mass immigration produces wars within nations.

00:03:23.360 In other words, when you add multiculturalism to a country, you also add civil wars to its

00:03:29.900 already existing national wars. 0.88

00:03:32.100 Sure, the shooting hasn't begun, but the Cold War is here.

00:03:35.860 The chessboard is being set, and the fight is being fought, not in some far-off land,

00:03:42.460 but in our neighborhoods, in our schools, in our city council meetings, in our churches,

00:03:46.180 in our boardrooms, our offices, and in some circumstances, even our own families.

00:03:50.960 The national temperature is rising, and everybody feels it.

00:03:55.000 People are moving, dividing, they're taking positions.

00:03:57.620 The great migration of COVID was just a foretaste of the division to come. 0.85

00:04:02.360 White flight continues to grow in American cities. 0.75

00:04:04.540 racial and religious segregation is greater now than it was even in the 1950s. Animosity and 0.96

00:04:10.760 resentment is coming to a boiling point. You see, the Republican party is even fracturing at every

00:04:15.840 point. MAGA is at war with America first. Denominations are splintering. The moderate

00:04:21.560 and the middle class are just disappearing. Polarity is increasing. Used to be able to stand

00:04:27.500 in the middle, right? And reach on one side to the left and one side to the right. But now if

00:04:32.380 you're standing in the middle, you just look like an idiot. People are sitting there looking at you 1.00

00:04:35.900 and say, pick a side. And we have hyphenated Americanism on top of all this. And at every

00:04:40.600 turn, we have DEI. Muslims are turning our historic churches into mosques and are building 1.00

00:04:45.960 their own cities in our nation. They're changing our street names to the names of their Arabic 1.00

00:04:50.340 heroes. Communism is having a comeback on the left, but Hitler is growing in popularity among

00:04:55.900 the young men on the right. Conversations around segregation are re-emerging. Social media is

00:05:01.240 filled with young Christian men posting crusade-like war images in hopes of slaughtering

00:05:06.240 their historic religious enemy. This is what America is becoming. We think that there's an 0.93

00:05:12.520 alternative to nationalism and we think that that alternative is globalism, but it's not. It's

00:05:16.660 actually tribalism. So you can't import millions of foreigners with incompatible cultures and 0.99

00:05:22.280 religions and languages and temperaments and expect to increase national harmony. See, 0.98

00:05:27.760 mass immigration and multiculturalism gave birth to tribalism, and every group is busy securing

00:05:33.140 its own interests at the expense of others, all on the same land. It's a reward your allies and 0.78

00:05:39.500 punish your enemies era with nothing in between. Now, tribalism is not new. Okay, Africa has tribes

00:05:46.280 and there's about 3,000 of them actually today. And as a result, the entire continent is almost

00:05:51.240 in a constant state of war and conflict. That's what tribalism does. It trades national unity

00:05:56.660 for endless internal conflict. See, but as Christians, what are we to do? Do we flee?

00:06:03.380 Do we stay? Do we fight? And if we do fight, what does that even look like? And if we do stay,

00:06:09.340 how do we stay? And if we do flee, where do we go? These are the types of questions that I hope

00:06:14.600 to answer in this episode, which is ultimately the practical implementation of Christian nationalism.

00:06:20.960 But before I begin with these questions, I just want to lay some groundwork real quick.

00:06:25.380 Now, as I mentioned in season one, episode eight on Christian nationalism, there are two fronts

00:06:30.420 to the Christian nationalist approach. Okay. One is top down, which is recovering political power

00:06:36.180 and reasserting Christian moral order at the state level from the top. Okay. The other is 0.83

00:06:41.860 bottom up and it's deliberately planting and fortifying Christian communities that can hold 0.79

00:06:47.080 ground while the larger nation remains unstable. So it's planting churches, starting Christian

00:06:52.060 schools, et cetera. And we need both. We need both top down and we need both bottom up. Okay.

00:06:57.340 That requires strategy. So first we must think as though we are at war because we are. Okay. I don't

00:07:05.560 know how to say it like any more clearly. America is being invaded, not just from illegals, but from 1.00

00:07:12.600 chain migration, from legal migration, and from the reproduction of the tens of millions of pagan 1.00

00:07:18.620 foreigners who are already here. Now, in war, the decision to secure a territory depends on two

00:07:26.620 things. Okay. Whether the territory is winnable and whether it is worth winning. Okay. You need

00:07:32.220 both. Okay. There are many small towns in America that are winnable, but not really strategic and

00:07:38.700 worth winning. And there are many large cities that are worth winning, but not actually winnable

00:07:44.140 at this particular moment. So the key is to find a place that meet both criterias.

00:07:49.540 The second thing we must consider is momentum. No competent army willingly leaves its soldiers

00:07:57.220 scattered across the battlefield in small isolated groups with a few resources and no ability to

00:08:02.300 reinforce one another. So consolidation is key. So Christians from across the country need to start

00:08:08.900 coming together, concentrating their resources, strengthening their supply lines, creating

00:08:16.000 enough momentum to advance rather than just barely survive. 0.99

00:08:21.520 See, there's a reason more than 110,000 Muslims live in Dearborn, Michigan, rather than just

00:08:29.180 being scattered in pockets of a few hundred across the country.

00:08:33.100 They are building a concentrated front, truly like a nation within our own nation.

00:08:39.800 They are essentially claiming sections of our own country that we will never regain

00:08:44.760 without some sort of war or bloodshed or conflict. 0.96

00:08:48.160 American Christians have to begin thinking with a similar degree of seriousness.

00:08:53.700 We need to claim and hold particular places in order to preserve them as places of safety

00:08:59.400 for strategy.

00:09:00.740 OK, this is a part of continuity. And these are hubs for establishing political power for the

00:09:06.560 next generation. Now, I know it sounds a little like dystopic to organize in order to keep what

00:09:12.260 is already ours, but the numbers show that it's actually necessary. We know that whites are now 1.00

00:09:18.760 roughly 57 percent of the American population. That's a drop of 20 percent in just the last 30

00:09:24.740 years. Okay. Among those that are under the age of 18, the figure actually drops down to 46%.

00:09:31.380 And so at the current trends, whites will be a minority in America within one to two generations

00:09:37.000 and Muslims and Hindu communities in the United States have a significantly higher fertility rate

00:09:42.720 than the native white Christian population here in America. So combine that with their

00:09:48.320 continued immigration and the chain migration of their family members and the demographic

00:09:53.360 replacement through fertility rates, the trajectory is unmistakable. Okay, sure, these groups are

00:09:59.840 still like, they're minorities today. But we have to remember that an organized minority always

00:10:06.700 overcomes a disorganized majority. And that is that numbers alone don't decide the outcome in a

00:10:13.120 war. Okay, the victory often goes to whoever is the most committed, the most organized, the most

00:10:18.780 strategic. And unfortunately, Muslims and Hindus and Jews are far more organized as of late than 0.78

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00:11:56.420 Christians to essentially organize under the vision of establishing Christian boroughs or

00:12:01.660 Christian cities or Christian towns or Christian colonies. I don't care what you call them. I want 0.97

00:12:07.040 to think seriously about the four ingredients required to making this actually work. And those

00:12:14.120 four ingredients are these. Number one is strategic location. Number two is pastoral vision. Number

00:12:21.800 three is building institutions. And number four is taking political power. Now, before I begin, 0.95

00:12:29.400 I just want to answer a question that I think some of you, at least the Christians in the room,

00:12:34.540 are probably thinking. They're thinking, how is this biblical? What is the scripture that calls

00:12:39.680 us to do such a thing? Well, first, scripture says that the two greatest commandments are to

00:12:47.500 love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and to love

00:12:50.240 your neighbor as yourself. Now, one of the most practical ways to love your neighbor is to ensure

00:12:55.580 that they are not ruled over by pagan foreigners who hate Christ. So second, God says in the first 0.99

00:13:03.080 and second commandments, no other gods and no idols. Okay. Our government is importing pagan

00:13:09.460 peoples into our lands and you cannot separate pagan peoples from pagan worship. You can't 1.00

00:13:15.120 separate pagan peoples also from importing their demons with them. So Christ does not want America 1.00

00:13:21.160 filled with more people worshiping false gods and having demonic religions. We have to remember 0.97

00:13:26.860 that the church is the conscience of the state. I'm going to say that again. The church is the

00:13:31.960 conscience of the state, and the state must be discipled constantly by the church. There's a 0.84

00:13:38.280 separation of powers, but there is not a separation of influence. And for that reason, it is the 0.88

00:13:43.460 Christian duty to stop any influx of paganism that's coming into our nation, whether by civic 0.99

00:13:50.260 strategy or political strategy. So let's just begin with talking about the first ingredient, 0.98

00:13:55.900 which I would think is strategic location. American Christians relocate for employment, 0.72

00:14:02.480 for family, for lower taxes, for affordable housing, for better weather, okay? Yet they 1.00

00:14:08.760 almost never relocate for the purpose of joining and strengthening a serious Christian community. 0.85

00:14:15.140 Now, do you think Somalis would prefer Minnesota? It is literally the most unnatural climate for 1.00

00:14:22.520 their biology. Okay. They come from the hottest part of Africa and now they're sitting in this

00:14:28.320 Northern state filled with six months of snow in America. So why are they there? Well, because 0.58

00:14:35.920 it's a politically strategic location filled with liberal allies and they have momentum there and

00:14:42.500 they're continuing to leverage that momentum. See, our unwillingness to make these types of moves

00:14:47.960 reveals two things. First, white American Christians lack the in-group preference 0.70

00:14:54.680 that other ethnic religious groups possess. Second, we just don't have many places that 0.83

00:15:01.880 offer a clear vision for some sort of civic Christian town that is worth joining. And so

00:15:08.700 while Christians hesitate to move from, say, like California to Arizona for the sake of like a

00:15:14.780 strong Christian community with a vision, Muslims and Hindus and Africans are crossing oceans to 0.92

00:15:20.920 establish religious enclaves in your nation. And this has to change. We cannot build Christian 1.00

00:15:27.820 cities without Christian people. And we cannot create a concentrated Christian community while 1.00

00:15:33.560 everyone remains scattered according to their personal preferences across the nation. In 0.89

00:15:39.220 healthier times, strong Christian towns might have just kind of grown naturally from the existing 1.00

00:15:44.740 population. But we're not living in that time anymore. Our churches are weak, our families

00:15:52.280 are geographically dispersed, and many local institutions have already been captured or

00:15:57.600 hollowed out by liberals or by pagans. And so rebuilding Christian towns is going to require

00:16:04.240 intentionality. It'll require some Christians to place religious community above climate 0.97

00:16:10.560 or convenience or career advancement. It's going to require families to ask not merely, 0.55

00:16:17.480 where can I make the most money or where would I most enjoy living, but where can my family

00:16:22.700 worship faithfully, contribute meaningfully, and help build something that may endure for

00:16:29.040 generations? And this requires us to stop thinking like individualists, which again,

00:16:35.640 has two dimensions. First, way too many of us are not thinking about our own children or our

00:16:41.640 own grandchildren. We think, oh, you know, well, it's not that bad now. It might be that bad after

00:16:48.960 I'm dead, but that's not my problem, right? That's like a boomer mentality, right? That's how they 0.81

00:16:53.800 think. We got to stop that mentality. The second dimension is that when you move your family

00:16:59.220 somewhere, you have to think about the fact that you're actually moving not just yourself,

00:17:04.460 but your great-grandchildren there as well. Men, you have to start thinking like a patriarch.

00:17:11.360 You cannot take this kind of hobo, transient, rootless position anymore, like packing up every

00:17:19.340 time your emotions shift or you have a new job opportunity. We need more people with a burn the 0.98

00:17:25.480 boats, multi-generational mentality that anchors in and protects the place that it stays at.

00:17:31.220 Second, as I said earlier, we want something that is both winnable and worth winning. Okay. So for

00:17:41.060 us, I'm just going to give my own experience here because that's all I can speak to. We chose

00:17:45.740 Prescott, Arizona. It's pronounced Prescott, but it's spelt Prescott, Prescott, Arizona. And here's

00:17:52.800 why. Arizona is a state that is often a swing state in national elections. It's a red state,

00:17:57.700 But what keeps it red is Yavapai County and Prescott is the county seat. And so keeping this

00:18:04.200 county red and Christian is strategically vital, even kind of at the national level. Now, other

00:18:11.280 factors really do matter as well. Okay. You want allies, right? So you look for red states, of

00:18:16.800 course. You look for high white populations, not because we like hate other races, but heavily 0.99

00:18:22.860 white population cities produce safer and cleaner towns. That's just a fact. Now, there's another 1.00

00:18:29.820 reason that we chose to be in Prescott, right? It's roughly 85% white. It's actually less than

00:18:35.960 1% black. It's relatively affluent. It's not a luxury place, but close. The higher cost of living

00:18:45.680 is actually works to our advantage because it makes it harder for large numbers of migrants

00:18:50.900 to move in here. Now, geography can also help in your search for a particular place.

00:18:58.120 We sit about 100 miles away from Phoenix at about 5,000 feet elevation in the mountains.

00:19:04.920 Now, the distance can limit some employment options, which again, can play to your favor,

00:19:11.540 but can also work against you. But the natural beauty of a particular place also helps because

00:19:19.180 when you have good weather, you have nice geography to look at, it makes it easier to

00:19:26.520 attract serious families to relocate and join you around the country. So pick a place with as many

00:19:33.840 of those kind of factors as you possibly can. And don't view relocation as like escaping the battle

00:19:40.640 or abandoning your current location. You have to see it as a strategic relocation, as a way

00:19:46.120 to establish a defensible place where Christian life can grow again. Essentially, I was thinking 1.00

00:19:54.120 about Joel Webin's book, Fight by Flight. And the premise of his book is that sometimes the best way

00:20:03.880 to love a particular place is to leave a particular place. He makes the argument from California that

00:20:10.000 you know, the best way to love California is to leave California. It was maybe a strategic

00:20:15.740 retreat for him to move to Texas. And I think there is a lot of people in similar situations.

00:20:20.820 There are strategic retreats for you to relocate and find a particular Christian town with

00:20:29.580 more potential to build momentum. Okay. The second ingredient is pastoral vision.

00:20:35.200 A friend of mine, I remember he visited Europe and he was looking at the cathedrals. He

00:20:39.940 came back and he said to me, we want what they built, but we don't want to believe what they

00:20:46.800 believed. We want what they built, but we don't want to believe what they believed. And this is

00:20:53.160 precisely the problem. We admire the stone, the glass, the music, the Gregorian chants,

00:20:59.020 the universities, the laws, the cities, the institutions of Christendom. Yet most Christians 1.00

00:21:03.980 reject the theology that made all of that possible. Those achievements did not emerge 0.69

00:21:09.680 from some weak, modern mega-churchianity, complete with like the rock band worship and

00:21:15.020 men who preach in shorts, okay? They were built by historic confessional Christianity that believed

00:21:21.820 that Christ was not Lord just of the soul, but the Lord of the whole world. You know, the church,

00:21:28.820 the kings, the nations, the families, the schools, the trades, the laws, the architecture,

00:21:34.240 everything. And so the leaders of old Christendom didn't confuse their civilizations with the final

00:21:43.640 kingdom of God, but they also didn't see Christ's reign as some sort of invisible, disembodied,

00:21:50.220 privatized, and culturally sterile reality. They expected the spiritual reign of Christ

00:21:55.740 to produce material fruit. So they expected Christian churches, Christian schools, Christian

00:22:01.700 hospitals, Christian laws, Christian art, and architecture, and public morality, and ordered

00:22:07.460 communities. Psalm 24 one says, quote, the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. And so

00:22:15.280 like no part of human life lies outside of the rightful authority of King Jesus. And this isn't

00:22:21.980 strange. This is not a strange concept. Every religion eventually gives physical form to its

00:22:29.040 spiritual vision. Okay. Muslims build mosques and schools and neighborhoods and businesses

00:22:34.280 and political associations that reflect Islam. Okay. Hindus build demon temples and cultural

00:22:40.740 centers and monuments and communities that reflect Hinduism and historic Christianity 1.00

00:22:46.400 did the same. The question is not whether theology will shape America. The question is

00:22:53.680 which theology will shape America? And as I argued in the previous episode, the church is entering

00:22:59.780 what I think is probably a 10 to 15 year wartime era. And tragically, again, many pastors do not

00:23:07.460 understand what time it is. And instead, what they're doing is they're continuing to minister

00:23:11.040 as if it's the 1990s, and they don't see that we're undergoing an organized religious, demographic, 0.82

00:23:16.920 institutional, and cultural, and political attack by third world pagans and media manipulating Jews

00:23:23.100 all around us. And much of this blindness is truly theological. Many pastors have absorbed 0.58

00:23:31.260 a liberal, individualistic, Gnostic view of Christianity that's privatized in which salvation

00:23:37.480 is really the, it deals with the salvation of the soul, but it never touches the physical world

00:23:43.320 because the physical world is abandoned to the devil. I talked about that in the

00:23:46.760 way that dispensationalism has affected our worldview. Now, a pastor who cannot see this

00:23:53.620 will have no category for building a Christian town. His weak kind of modern theology has

00:24:00.920 trained him to maintain like a spiritual only congregation, not to cultivate Christian

00:24:06.340 civilization. And so a huge part of this is finding a pastor who embraces historic Christianity.

00:24:13.820 So think Anglicanism, Presbyterianism, Lutheranism.

00:24:19.100 And I know there are gay Anglicans, gay Presbyterians, and gay Lutherans, but there's also extremely

00:24:25.300 historic, robust, masculine-based versions of every one of those denominations.

00:24:31.820 Now, I want to talk about Rome for a second.

00:24:34.340 Yes, Rome has its beauties, but Rome, in my opinion, is inherently globalistic and fights

00:24:40.360 against this nationalistic structure.

00:24:42.800 Eastern Orthodoxy is inherently Eastern and foreign to our Western heritage and mindset. 0.96

00:24:48.780 And so America is a Protestant nation, and I believe it can only be recovered by historic 0.98

00:24:54.040 Reformed Christianity.

00:24:56.500 Now, if you want to learn more about that topic, I actually, I touch on this.

00:25:00.800 I wrote a book called Reformed versus Rome.

00:25:03.720 I was comparing kind of the Reformed perspective versus the Roman Catholicism perspective.

00:25:11.540 And I think it's really helpful if you're on the fence or you're investigating that,

00:25:15.440 you can pick it up on Amazon.

00:25:17.580 Now, a strategic relocation is not enough, okay?

00:25:21.760 You might gather people in the right town, but without the right set of pastors who understand

00:25:30.400 the times, who are embracing the doctrines of historic, civilizational, building Christianity,

00:25:36.180 and having the vision and the energy to fight for an American Christendom, to kind of restore

00:25:43.720 the American Christian nation that we once were, that effort is going to lose momentum. So if you

00:25:50.520 don't have all of those things, you're going to lose that momentum. And as I said in the previous

00:25:55.320 episode, you need a wartime shepherd. It's so demoralizing to be in a church and trying to

00:26:01.360 motivate your pastor with this type of vision. You want somebody who's already there. And

00:26:07.480 honestly, if you're just looking for someone, it's probably going to be someone who's outspoken,

00:26:12.300 someone that's preaching and writing and publishing and teaching and filming and building.

00:26:17.320 And these are probably going to be men that have kind of a magnetic personality or qualities about

00:26:23.340 them. They probably have some sort of social media platform or again, are known to some degree.

00:26:29.180 and that's important because these people need to be capable of drawing in serious Christian

00:26:36.740 families into this shared vision and mission. Now, I'm not talking about like celebrity

00:26:43.500 Christianity, okay? And to combat that, I think you should look at these pastors' families. You

00:26:50.820 should visit these churches. You should witness and see the health and the fruit that's there.

00:26:57.020 Determine if what is being said online or in their books is actually real in the local area.

00:27:03.680 In fact, I've actually learned that there's like an ethic.

00:27:06.320 You know, you might've heard like good from far, but it's far from good.

00:27:10.240 You should be able to go into these communities and the closer you get, the better it gets.

00:27:16.980 I was actually listening to a podcast maybe a year ago, and I had another Christian pastor

00:27:20.880 talk about that when people came to their church, they saw things online, but when they

00:27:25.480 came in closer, they realized it's actually better than it is online. And that's hard to do.

00:27:31.680 And I think that's the kind of pastoral staff and community that you're trying to look for.

00:27:36.940 They actually have anchoring points. They're actually level-headed. There's actual real

00:27:41.040 fruit on the ground. Now, historical events actually confirm that this is a very important

00:27:47.000 thing, and it's actually true of historical figures. It's like Calvin, John Calvin. He

00:27:52.040 didn't merely write theology. He shaped the entire city of Geneva into a reformed center

00:27:58.800 of education and politics and structure. John Knox didn't just pray for a collection of privately

00:28:06.680 converted Scots. His mission was to reform the entire nation. His famous line was,

00:28:11.280 give me Scotland or I die. I think about the Puritans in New England. They understood that 1.00

00:28:18.000 society required Christian institutions. Harvard, think about this with me. Harvard was established

00:28:22.800 in 1636. That's 16 years after the Mayflower arrived. Okay. Like they didn't have perfect

00:28:30.760 conditions. They literally looked at a wilderness and they were building houses out of logs that

00:28:35.940 they were chopping down by hand. And within 16 years, they're building Harvard. Like think about

00:28:43.940 the absolute mission and intensity of that. And so they knew that building schools and churches

00:28:53.920 and trained ministers were essential for establishing dominion in this new land.

00:28:58.860 Now, in more recent times, we do have some places that you can look to as an example.

00:29:05.560 Moscow, Idaho, under Douglas Wilson, he's established a network of churches,

00:29:11.000 schools, publishing over the decades. We have Brian Sauve and Eric Kahn up in Ogden, Utah,

00:29:18.600 and New Christendom Press. We have Joel Webin in Georgetown, Texas with NXR and Right Response

00:29:26.700 Ministries. We have Andrew Isker in Gainesboro, Tennessee. He's trying to build Christian

00:29:32.820 townships. And by God's grace, we have our little church, Kingsway, here in Prescott, Arizona. We're

00:29:37.900 attempting to carry out very similar vision. Now, I'm sure there are, there's probably many more

00:29:43.600 across the United States. I just don't know them personally. I do know every one of these men

00:29:49.180 personally. So now I will say none of this should be romanticized. It is a slow and difficult work,

00:29:55.760 but places are changed when Christians gather and they have a good leader and they continue to

00:30:03.760 build. And so you don't just need a good location. That's important. And you need to be willing to

00:30:08.560 relocate. You also need strong pastors. And those pastors need to be handcuffed to both the gospel

00:30:15.560 and to the civilizational building vision of Christianity. So third, you need Christian 0.57

00:30:23.220 institutions. And I like to believe that we're living in what I would call like a Mayflower 0.95

00:30:29.760 era and that these like Christian towns kind of act like little Christian colonies, right?

00:30:37.040 There really is like a parallel here. Let me explain this. People are moving across the country

00:30:42.260 and they're seeking out essentially a better spiritual life. That's happening. 80% of our

00:30:50.680 church are people that have relocated from different states. And what they're doing is 0.86

00:30:56.760 they're landing at these places and they're beginning to build or to rebuild Christian

00:31:00.900 civilization similar to the Mayflower or the Massachusetts Bay Colony, et cetera. But when

00:31:07.560 you arrive at ground zero, right, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Where do we begin? And again,

00:31:13.380 I think that we could look to the Puritans as an example. Okay, the first things they built were

00:31:18.840 what? Homes and churches and schools. And that's not something to overlook. Again, here in Prescott,

00:31:26.760 you know, we've been here for the planet of this church four years ago. We've been renting

00:31:30.880 buildings on Sunday for worship. We're now working to find a consistent location to get us

00:31:35.980 kind of a greater degree of stability. From there, we hope to grow and to save and eventually

00:31:39.800 build maybe a beautiful colonial style stone church with a bell tower, you know, maybe attach

00:31:45.840 a school to it, have some offices, buy a couple acres with it. That's the vision. That's the hope.

00:31:51.000 But step one is to establish homes and churches. And we need our families to become

00:31:56.060 financially stable, right? That's what we're working on, right? They need to purchase homes

00:32:00.380 rather than remaining perpetual renters and establish themselves in the community. That's

00:32:05.500 a very important part of this particular project. Now, the way that you get established is often

00:32:13.680 through commerce, right? Through work. And for that reason, we're fairly entrepreneurial at our

00:32:19.320 church. And I encourage churches to be entrepreneurial because you can't hand down a

00:32:23.140 job, but you can hand down a business to your children. And most of our men are either working

00:32:28.160 for themselves or they have a side business if they do have a job. In fact, I would say much of

00:32:33.540 my ministry, because I was in the business world before I was in ministry, much of my ministry is

00:32:39.040 actually helping men become financially stable, producing strong, profitable businesses. This is

00:32:46.460 actually, it's not something I expected, but right now, understanding the multiple dimensions of the

00:32:52.580 atonement isn't as pressing as we need to establish a business that can pay for our

00:33:00.140 bills and support our church and provide for our family. And so there is more pressure in this

00:33:08.300 particular area. And I think that's pretty common for most pastors. We talk about financial issues

00:33:12.240 and establishing really good foundations for producing, again, this vision. Now, like the

00:33:18.480 Puritans, we've also started a school, right? We started a K-8 classical Christian school, 0.93

00:33:25.240 a classical Christian school. And we don't think that it's wise to wait to educate the next

00:33:33.000 generation. See, homeschooling, it's better than public schooling. We homeschooled for many years,

00:33:37.100 but it doesn't compare to a robust classical Christian school. We have just learned that

00:33:43.520 recently over the last couple years. And we want our children and our community to be better than

00:33:49.820 us, smarter than us. So they need to be reading biographies of great men and women now. They need

00:33:55.000 to be reading the classics now. They need to be learning and understanding Latin and theology

00:33:59.840 now. They need to live a liturgical life now. And of course, we want them to be also singing

00:34:07.600 and reading music and doing all that beautiful Christian life now. And another dimension I'm

00:34:15.560 thinking about is just fulfilling the mission of multiplying the vision. And I think the way that

00:34:23.560 you can do that is through publishing. I think it's an important part of this institutional

00:34:30.020 section because publishing really does magnify and contribute to spreading the vision. And so

00:34:38.280 for us, that looked like starting relearn.org. We have the relearn app, which is just basically

00:34:44.920 thousands of very important, out of print, slightly modernized, historic audio books

00:34:53.300 brought back to life because we live in a time where we need to recover and retrieve the way

00:34:59.220 of the old world. And so we try to push books in there for kids and for adults and for parents.

00:35:05.680 New Christendom Press is producing great works. NXR is publishing great works. And so we are

00:35:12.340 working diligently to publish. And I think that's a very important part of this vision

00:35:18.400 for Christian Town. So churches, schools, businesses, and publishing. I think these

00:35:25.420 are foundational institutions for establishing the base of a Christian town. The church forms

00:35:32.320 the Christians, the school produces the capable men and women of the future, businesses provide

00:35:37.000 jobs and wealth and stability, and then publishing strengthens the vision of those that are already

00:35:41.480 there and those that essentially could be drawing people into the mission. So the fourth ingredient,

00:35:49.940 and the last ingredient is taking political power. Now for far too long, most Christians have 1.00

00:35:56.080 treated political power as like something inherently suspect, something worldly, it's 0.98

00:36:01.260 corrupting, it's beneath the kind of religious life. And that has been a deadly mistake. Okay.

00:36:06.640 Power is not evil. Power is simply a tool. It's the capacity to order a people to reward what is

00:36:14.480 good and to restrain what is evil. The question is never whether power will exist. Uh, the question

00:36:20.820 is whose hands will hold it. And, and essentially, you know, to what end will it be used? So Muslims

00:36:27.880 understand this. Hindus understand this. They don't apologize for seeking political power in

00:36:32.260 our land. Okay. And as, uh, you know, as of the last couple of years, you know, there are roughly,

00:36:39.540 I think 250 elected Muslim officials across local, state, and federal levels in America,

00:36:47.540 including mayors of significant cities. I think there's over 50 of them that are actually mayors

00:36:52.560 in cities. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that that is the number. And a handful of them

00:36:57.140 are in U.S. Congress. And so Hindus are likewise. They're holding seats in U.S. House of Representatives, 0.98

00:37:04.060 the rapidly growing numbers at the state level. These are not random individuals who happen to

00:37:10.580 share a private faith, okay? They are advancing the interests of their own people. They practice

00:37:16.220 identity politics without apology. They are nepotistic in the literal sense. They prefer

00:37:21.680 their own people, promote their own, hire their own, govern their own, okay? The myth of neutral

00:37:28.460 representation is just that. It's a myth. America's government only worked that way of

00:37:35.840 representation in a racially homogenous American Christian context. It's why John Adams said 0.96

00:37:43.780 famously, quote, our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. And he's talking

00:37:52.080 about Christianity there. He goes on to say, it is wholly inadequate to the government of any

00:37:58.100 other, end quote. Okay. When pagan foreigners win office, they do not leave their ethnic or

00:38:03.620 religious identities behind. Okay. They remain Muslims and Hindus first. And American Christians 0.99

00:38:09.540 must stop pretending that they don't understand this. But more than that, we have to just stop 0.99

00:38:14.980 doing nothing. Okay. I feel like most Christians are just like deer in the headlights when it comes

00:38:20.460 to political, you know, engagement in the nation. And now, as I mentioned earlier, I believe it's 1.00

00:38:27.720 our duty as the church to raise up Christian statesmen. Okay. Men who are like robustly

00:38:33.000 Christian, uh, they're disciplined, they're rooted, uh, ideally they're, they're drawn

00:38:37.700 from historic American stock. Um, and, and these should not be, uh, social media, you

00:38:46.560 know, people with social media platforms. And here's why you don't want someone with

00:38:50.440 a long public track record at this particular time, uh, that makes them easy targets for

00:38:55.940 slander, you kind of want to keep them a bit ambiguous. And they should be serious, capable,

00:39:02.800 bright men who can present themselves as moderate, competent candidates, and then have them win

00:39:08.960 office and then govern according to the historic Christian way. And they should do that in their

00:39:14.920 justice and their order and their understanding of civilization. Now, politics is a contest

00:39:21.720 for the direction of the nation. And if we refuse to compete, others will simply take the field

00:39:27.620 and rule over us. And so this is where we stand right now. America is no longer held together

00:39:34.820 by a shared people, a shared faith, or even a shared vision for the future. It is a tribal

00:39:40.600 empire that is making every group that understands the stakes very clear on what they're doing.

00:39:49.700 They're consolidating, they're building, they're taking ground. Muslims are doing it. Hindus are

00:39:54.700 doing it. Liberals are doing it. We can't keep scattering, keep pretending that like this old 1.00

00:40:03.840 order still exists and we can't keep losing. Okay. Or like the alternative is just that we

00:40:11.220 finally wake up and we choose places that are both again, winnable and worth winning. We gather

00:40:16.800 under these wartime churches and wartime shepherds. We plant and start and establish

00:40:21.080 real institutions. We raise up godly men who will take political power without an apology

00:40:26.220 and bless our descendants for generations to come. And I get it. I know it's inconvenient,

00:40:32.940 right? It's inconvenient. You have been betrayed by your leaders. They sold your inheritance to

00:40:41.180 other foreigners. And so, yeah, it's inconvenient, but you either move now and build now or you force 1.00

00:40:49.860 your kids to do so in 15 to 20 years. Either way, depending on where you live, again, you might live

00:40:55.940 in a really great place, but it's very possible that you or your children or your grandchildren

00:41:00.560 are going to have to move because if you don't build and establish a defensive front, so if you 0.98

00:41:08.620 have an offensive strategy of building a defensive front, some Muslims or Hindus are going to move 0.90

00:41:14.580 in and liberals will move in and they're going to do it for you. And so if you don't start 0.96

00:41:20.100 establishing now, while there is no outside pressure, eventually your kids are going to

00:41:26.300 be overtaken and they're going to have to relocate and you're going to have more essential Christian

00:41:31.920 refugees floating around to different places in the United States. And so the question is not

00:41:36.240 whether Christian towns or boroughs or colonies, whatever you want to call them, will be needed. 0.58

00:41:41.400 They already are. The only question left is whether enough of us are going to stop thinking 0.99

00:41:46.860 like rootless individuals that are disconnected from the past and the future and start acting

00:41:50.980 like a people who intend to keep our country and start being strategic and start winning over our

00:41:57.900 particular cities and holding ground. You've got to burn the boats, folks. You've got to choose

00:42:03.380 your ground. You've got to build something that lasts for multiple generations. And then we can

00:42:08.640 make that glorious prayer. And by God, we'll have our home again. So that's a wrap for that portion.

00:42:16.220 I want to move into our weekly audit to take a look at a few different videos.

00:42:27.180 So this first video is from about five years ago, and it's out of Moscow, Idaho. Now I know there's

00:42:32.800 been some beef between Doug Wilson and some of our camp, but I think that we can still observe

00:42:37.840 the objective good where we see this kind of fruit. And about 50 years ago, Doug started

00:42:44.620 building a Christian city and they've made a lot of progress. And I just wanted to show this

00:42:52.500 short video. And the video is important because it helps give a little bit of a vision of what

00:42:59.480 i've been talking about and i think sometimes we just need to see something um see something

00:43:05.040 working so we go okay i think we can recreate that and so let's just go ahead and take a look

00:43:09.620 what comes to mind when you hear the words moscow idaho peas and lentils rolling wheat fields

00:43:16.880 stunning nat geo landscapes northwest river supply maybe you have a cousin who had a friend

00:43:23.560 who went to the U of I.

00:43:25.420 Or was that Iowa?

00:43:27.240 Yeah, probably.

00:43:28.640 No Hawkeyes here.

00:43:30.380 Just a few thousand vandals.

00:43:32.620 Isn't that the place where those people were arrested

00:43:35.220 singing psalms at a mask protest?

00:43:37.880 Yep, that's us.

00:43:39.940 And stay tuned. 0.82

00:43:41.280 We're still kicking against petty tyranny.

00:43:46.260 Maybe Moscow, Idaho makes you think of Logos School,

00:43:50.020 one of the top K-12 schools in the world,

00:43:52.320 has made its home in a repurposed roller rink.

00:43:56.200 It gave birth to the worldwide classical Christian education movement.

00:44:00.140 Hundreds of thousands of students have now gone through programs and curricula

00:44:03.980 modeled on what happens in those classrooms.

00:44:09.360 And then there's New St. Andrews College,

00:44:11.920 that conservative Christian college with backbone,

00:44:14.860 tough in the classroom and tough in a brawl.

00:44:16.880 You know, that school where all the students know science.

00:44:21.060 If Moscow makes you think educational Mecca, you're not wrong.

00:44:25.200 And we won't even judge you for the cultural appropriation.

00:44:28.080 If Moscow makes you think of an exploding Christian community or those raucous fellows on CrossPolitik or Doug Wilson or the Bible Reading Challenge or high-level Christian education or fearless preaching, then you're thinking of the right town.

00:44:42.080 And it all started with books. 0.98

00:44:44.540 Books about family, about marriage, about faithfulness.

00:44:48.040 Books about logic and rhetoric and biology.

00:44:50.420 Books built on the one true foundation of any lasting community.

00:44:54.560 The book.

00:44:56.060 Your local gun shop might run short on brass.

00:44:59.260 Walmart might have empty shelves where the 9mm should have been.

00:45:03.080 But we will never run out of these rounds.

00:45:08.020 Moscow, Idaho.

00:45:09.540 Home to Cannon Press and a home away from home

00:45:12.040 for every family, church, school, and movement

00:45:14.380 we have ever supplied in their pioneering.

00:45:17.520 Canon Press, Outfitters of the Reformation.

00:45:21.520 Yeah, so this was, again, very helpful.

00:45:23.660 When I first went up to Moscow, Idaho years ago

00:45:27.280 and got a chance to see and witness what they have built there,

00:45:32.960 you know, it's tempting to join places like that,

00:45:35.820 but we need, and I think even some of the people up there would say that,

00:45:39.040 it's time to actually establish these types of towns all over the place.

00:45:44.340 And again, it's long vision.

00:45:45.460 50 years, right? It's long-term, multi-generational vision, but it can be done and it must be done.

00:45:54.240 Now, the next clip I want to show is this clip from Dearborn, Michigan, which you guys know

00:46:01.020 is essentially turned into an Islamic town, an Islamic colony here in the United States. Let's

00:46:07.460 take a look. So, okay, you guys probably saw those houses. They're just doing this in a neighborhood,

00:46:34.500 right? They're literally just walking through a neighborhood and you look at those houses and

00:46:38.460 those houses were probably built, you know, I don't know, 70, 80 years ago. And I'm just like

00:46:46.520 thinking about the American families that lived there in those houses. And they were, again,

00:46:51.500 betrayed by their leaders who sold their city to pagan foreigners who are now controlling the 1.00

00:46:58.040 politics, running the streets, controlling the police, putting in Sharia law, Sharia courts, 1.00

00:47:06.800 taking over their churches, taking over their places of worship. And it's just sad to watch.

00:47:15.680 And it's going to happen in other places. In fact, it's already happening in other places.

00:47:20.600 Now, many people don't even know, but Henry Ford was born in a barn in Dearborn, Michigan.

00:47:28.000 And in just, again, over 100 years, his town has been completely stolen.

00:47:33.180 It's completely gone.

00:47:34.500 And that's what I'm talking about.

00:47:36.260 This is the kind of pressure that's coming.

00:47:41.240 And I know it's early.

00:47:42.540 It's like I'm trying to sound the alarm a few decades in advance.

00:47:50.300 And I think that that's my hope is to wake people up to be a blessing to their grandchildren. 0.55

00:47:57.780 Because again, you know, building a Christian town is going to take decades at minimum.

00:48:02.800 And we're not even going to have an opportunity to experience the fruit of that. 0.95

00:48:09.240 My last name is Partridge, right?

00:48:10.700 And there's actually a funny, I always get called, you know, Partridge in a pear tree.

00:48:14.620 It's like my whole life.

00:48:15.340 And there is an old saying that says, you plant pears for your heirs, because it takes like 15 to 20 years for full harvest pear trees to function.

00:48:27.040 And I think that's the kind of mentality that we need right now is planting civilizational pear trees all around the United States.

00:48:35.440 And so we need godly shepherds. And then we need people to make the sacrifice and relocate

00:48:42.880 and anchor in and build something great. So that's a wrap for this episode of American Glory. Next

00:48:49.220 week, I'm going to be talking about why I'm reformed and why I encourage Americans to become

00:48:56.120 Anglicans, Presbyterians, or Lutherans. And I'm going to talk about the differences between those

00:49:00.860 and kind of my own personal journey,

00:49:03.380 maybe some contrast to Roman Catholicism

00:49:05.800 or Eastern Orthodoxy.

00:49:06.700 I'm still not sure at that point,

00:49:07.700 but it's gonna be a good episode.

00:49:09.560 Now, if you don't already, you can follow me on X.

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00:49:16.580 I would love to have you.

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00:49:22.400 Now, my feature book for this episode

00:49:23.720 is still from the same as last episode

00:49:26.060 is The Manliness of Christ,

00:49:27.600 How the Masculinity of Jesus 0.89

00:49:29.100 eradicates effeminate Christianity. It's available at relearn.org in the audio version on the relearn 0.62

00:49:35.200 app in the app store, or you can just pick it up on Amazon. So my name is Dale Partridge.

00:49:40.340 Thank you for watching or listening to American glory. I'll see you next week.

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The NXR Podcast - August 11, 2026

American Glory - Religious Wars Are Coming — Build Christian Towns Now

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