To Build a Church, in a Tennessee Borough

Updates on Rebuilding Christendom

As you know, I’ve moved to Tennessee. I did this with Andrew Isker and the various people involved in the Ridge Runner initiative. It’s been over a year since I gave an update. And you need to know what’s going on!

New Christendom Press really set off momentum with their plea for building Christian Boroughs. Our American empire is in tumultuous moments, and our culture—our anticulture—is in dire straits. Rather than wallowing in it, we all have to do what we can to rebuild, and set the stage for an epoch of rebuilding. Setting roots, creating businesses, helping families survive through the crisis.

I’m intensively busy in the building of the Tennessee outpost of this meta-project. Ridge Runner has purchased, among other things, a massive area in rural Tennessee where many families over the coming years will join us in setting up homes and lives here. Already we have 20+families. And we anticipate hundreds.

At the center of the flagship development is a church, architected with meaning, built slowly and with care and longevity in mind. It will provide a spiritual home for the people of Whitleyville Reformation Church.

But that is not all that I am doing. I am working on—to be vague for the moment—an alternative funding enterprise to help with construction loans for families who want to build outside the banking cartel system. I am also building a gas and general merchandise storefront (Rockwell’s!) and going through the regulatory and legal requirements of this. I am working on other things too: sales team programs to provide jobs, some manufacturing infrastructure for jobs, farmstead networks, civil rights initiatives (to be announced) related to Heritage Americans (which of course transcend the TN borough) and so much else.

I’ve signed a book deal with NCP for a book on Heritage Americanism. Andrew and I are completely revamping the Contra Mundum podcast— the Appeal to Heaven history series is in production, and I’ll even now have my own discussions format without Andrew, to couple with our flagship show which is now pre-recorded and pre-produced for quality. I’m doubling down on my Canterbury Trails podcast with Jared Lovell and upping the quality of this Anglican-inspired show.

Canterbury Trails and the Contra Mundum Discussions show will premier every Wednesday (starting tomorrow!)

Blood and sweat and savings are all being poured into this.

But the church! The church is the center of it all. It unites the families, provides spiritual sustenance for longing families, and a home in which we can worship and fellowship.

People ask, with all this, how they can help. Is there investment opportunities? Yes, please. But more than that, I don’t need direct funds. I need the church to grow. If you have investment interests, you can message me. But please consider supporting the church itself. It costs about a million dollars to build this thing right, and also to support staff and overhead in the meantime. Just throw in $50 or $250 if you can. Some of you can do more.

WhitleyvilleChurch.com/donate

It is the center of all this. It is the center of us all. Please help us build. From time to time, Christendom depends on mutual aid. What can you do?

Thanks to all and contact me at any time: cjay.engel90[at]gmail[dot]com.