Hmmm, Now What? Election 2025

Well... that election didn’t quite go like we wanted, did it? No great surprise, and this email isn’t meant to add to an abundance of emotional online commentary.

So... now what? It would be easy to just sit in endless post hoc analysis, or doom scroll social media. Both can be versions of avoidance - like drinking a dozen beer to escape confronting a difficult decision. The problem with beer (or twitter) is reality still awaits when the binge is over.

At risk of oversimplifying, I see two choices:

A) Take defeatist hyperbole to its eventual conclusion, pack up and leave - Alberta secession (or move to Alberta), to the US, Costa Rica, isolate in the woods alone, wherever.

B) Plant our feet, defend truth and work to build like never before.

Neither are simple. I’d be lying if I pretended I hadn’t thought about option A (more than once), and I’m not suggesting it’s wrong. But I'm predisposed to B.

I’m going to sound like a broken record, but I tend to repeat myself when I really believe something.

Culture needs to change, first and foremost.

Community is more important than ever, as we stand firm and build.

Culture change starts in our homes, building resilience through a foundation of faith and family, thinking through how we'll deal with difficulty and loss.

If I’m an unplugged father, working on my online presence more than equipping my kids to confront the world’s lies, then I’m just part of the problem. Weak parents and marriages make for weak families which make for weak churches, weak communities, and a badly broken nation.

One excellent starting point as a foundation, which I’ve shared with my grown kids and some friends is here.

The steps to build strong resilient communities will be unique for each of us, depending on everything from our family make up, to where we live. But we can’t just be keyboard warriors. We must start expanding our circles, surrounding ourselves with those we can partner with in the battles ahead.

Even though this has been a hard week, we know where our hope lies. GK Chesterton once said. “The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.”

Continue the fight.

Greg