So wrote philosopher Richard Weaver.

Why is there such brokenness in the world? Why the intense conflict? Global war; border disputes; a nation divided over race, wealth, status; bickering with neighbors; domestic abuse.

External actions — from U.N. policies to family relations — spring from ideas. Call these ideas "philosophy" or "religion," they have consequences.

      Micah says man was created in a Garden, "the Mountain of the Lord." We rejected God’s Providence because we wanted to "be as gods" (Genesis 3:5). In our poverty, we sold ourselves to the demonic slave-traders of the polis.

      Jesus paid the price necessary to "redeem" us (buy us back) from the slave-traders. Satan has been bound. By destroying this slavery, Christ established His Kingdom. If we accept His gentle yoke, we escape the harsh taskmaster of addiction to sin. Christ’s plan is not to "rapture" His people, but to empower them to "overcome" sin and the demonic State. He is not "coming soon" to establish an Empire in Jerusalem.

      Churches preach defeat, slavery, impotence, and self-centeredness. "Shepherds" paralyze and castrate "the sheep." Liturgy and rituals replace dominion. Spontaneous obedience to the Blueprints of Life is muzzled by "doctrinal" diversions.

      Politicians legislate dependence and serfdom. Flag-waving replaces dominion, vengeance replaces mercy and "voting" soothes the conscience.

      The Media tempts us to self-worship. Meditation on God’s Law is crowded out by "entertainment." Mousketeers graduate to cocaine.

      Yet whenever the Gospel has been believed and fleshed-out, culture has blossomed. Science, the arts, schools, hospitals, "justice, mercy and faith," are the products of Christ’s Kingdom.

      Jesus promises that His Kingdom will spread across the globe, and will be global, or universalistic, including all nations, all peoples, all races. Though the "dominant culture" only reluctantly admits it, Christianity has leavened the loaf, and the dough is rising. "The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea." (Isaiah 11:9)

      Churches teach that everything is getting "worse and worse." Reforming lives and nations is thought to hinder the "return of Christ." Sectarianism and ecclesiocentrism is their sorry substitute for a Christianized Earth.

      Bureaucrats stalk the borders to keep "illegals" out. "My country right or wrong."

      This global spread of Christ’s reign will be in terms of obedience to Biblical Law, which is Christ’s Standard of Love, Justice, and Holiness. We do not adjust our interpretation of the Bible to fit our culture; we reconstruct our culture according to the Blueprints of the Bible.

      Churches teach that "we are under grace, not law." They still enforce their own laws and traditions, but they are not God’s. The rates for embezzlement, adultery, divorce, and abortion are as high in churches as among non-Christians. Governments seize billions, murder millions, destroy continents; churches are silent.

      Dictators assert that law and justice are "culturally relative." All cultures are equal (except Christian culture, which is "oppressive"). It becomes politically incorrect to condemn massive human-rights violations.

      Biblical Law teaches attitudes of virtue, reconciliation, and service; when mature, these qualities beat "swords into plowshares," disarming the heart of the individual and the polis. Decentralization replaces institutionalization.

      Churches support wars, bless bombs, cheer executions. When institutionalized violence is approved by the pulpit, it is practiced by the people.      

      When families begin exercising independent dominion, the "shepherds" question their loyalty to the church. Inquisitions keep would-be patriarchs docile and "submissive."

      The State is at war with Jefferson’s "yeoman farmer." Free men of independent creativity and political skepticism have been replaced by consumer zombies easily managed by Leviathan.      

The Christian Family will abolish the Church-State hybrid.

      When families put Biblical Law into practice, militaristic industrialism is replaced with contentment and a harmonious relationship with the land.

      When Christians attempt to live debt-free, church finance boards call them "unrealistic" and "impractical." Industrialist peonage is nurtured.

      The State rewards debt, impersonalism, and cut-throat competition.

      Just as we were adopted into the Family of God, Christians extend their families, bringing in the solitary and abandoned. Christians do not practice "rugged individualism." The "nuclear family" is culturally sub-Biblical. Living in extended-family communities, Christians exercise dominion and resist the pressure of worldly peers who spout the myths of the pre-Christian "principalities and powers."

      Church hierarchies pressure Christians who question birth control, HMO births, mass-schooling, and Secular Humanist degrees. Christians who practice hospitality, sanctuary, and home Bible-study threaten ecclesiastical monopoly.

      The nuclear-armed State is no less hostile to the decentralized provision of social wholeness.

The Creeds say "I believe in the Community of Saints."

The whole Bible — including the Old Testament — is God’s Law-Word.

From Moses to Malachi, God sets forth an unchanging standard of Justice, Mercy, and Faith (Matthew 23:23). When faithfully taught and obeyed, observance of the Law of God mends the torn fabric of life. Bringing our lives under the total jurisdiction of Christ is the key to social renewal, not reforming the lives of others through the impersonal violence of statist bureaucratic regulation. Biblical Law is God’s pattern for peace, justice, and harmony.

So writes the author of this webpage. My name is Kevin Craig, and sometimes I feel like the loneliest guy in the world. I was formally excommunicated from the "Religious Right," but as a Bible-believing Calvinist I am not comfortable with the anti-"Religious Right," even though for the last 10 years the "radical leftwing" Catholic Worker movement has been a large part of my life.

Micah’s radical vision of Vine & Fig Tree is set forth in great detail in this work, which spans the Bible from Genesis to Revelation:

Vine & Fig Tree stands for the proposition that the Bible advocates the elimination of the institutions of Church and State. These publications help show the Biblical basis for a radically decentralized personalist communitarian society, which we refer to as "patriarchy."

Micah’s vision, from the perspective of an arbitrator/peacemaker.

Vine & Fig Tree advocates the elimination of the State and its "system" of "justice." This is a book-length exposition of 1 Corinthians 6:1-11, which incorporates the exegesis and insights of over 35 respected Christian commentators on the passage. It argues that the Vine & Fig Tree Vision underlies Paul’s command to Christians not to resort to secular and pagan courts.

The idea of eliminating all political systems is met with alarm, even by "tax-protesting" "Christian Patriots." In their crusade against "commerce," they have demonized the Lex Mercatoria, or Law Merchant.

The Law Merchant was a system of non-political, voluntary arbitration of commercial disputes which existed in the Middle Ages. It is evidence that a global obedience to I Corinthians 6 is possible. This book examines the history of commerce before the rise of nation-states and shows that decentralized, patriarchal societies can more efficiently and peacefully carry out the Dominion Mandate than a world dominated by "archist" structures such as the State.

The Harvard University Negotiation Project studied techniques of conflict resolution and entitled their study Getting to Yes. While their techniques and insights are valuable, they are but vague shadows of a full-orbed Christian concept of conflict resolution. That concept is presented here. In a nutshell, peaceful co-existence of human beings does not depend on the existence of a well-armed Nation-State or global government.

Christian Conciliation finds its greatest obstacle in the institutions of church and State. Would-be patriarchs are intimidated into servicelessness by claims of authority and professionalism by agents of church and State. All the responsibilities of the Ministry of Reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:17-21) are given to "laymen."

Beginning where the volume above leaves off, those who occupy ecclesiastical positions are given suggestions as to how to equip "laymen" for their task as conciliators, and how "Priests" and "Pastors" can then themselves move up to the position of "laymen" and Godly Patriarch.

Also beginning where we left off with the "layman," the Attorney is shown that he is a king under Christ, with a call to justice. This publication shows how to turn an ordinary law-practice into a Christian Patriarchy.

Biblical critique of such concepts as Prison, Capital Punishment, and how the Patriarch should bring the message of Reconciliation to those who commit crimes. Theories tested by nearly 10 years of experience with violent and non-violent criminals in a Catholic Worker House of Hospitality.

A practical introduction to Christian Patriarchy. How an average, low-grade American can raise grandsons to be Patriarchs like Abraham, who was respected by kings of nations, was "rich in cattle and gold," and exercised evangelistic hospitality to over 1,000 homeless people at a time.

A program of Scripture Meditations designed to enhance patriarchal Godliness and begin the process of personal transformation which will result in a generation of society-shaping Christian Patriarchs.

An Historical and Theological Examination of the "12 Steps" of Alcoholics Anonymous, their compatibility with radical Patriarchal Christianity, and the crippling dilution of the program by demonic "new age" mythology and trendy pop-psychology.

Most Christians today are addicted to "church membership." A Biblical Critique of the institutional "church" is integrated with a 12-Step program which moves people out of churches, back to their homes, and into God’s world.

A 12-Step program for "adult children of the State" — people who were taught that the State is a "divine institution" and are recovering from its destructive model of violence, vengeance, and domination from which we have all learned so much, and have become "co-dependent."

The incredible violent and fascist origins of "The Sexual Revolution," exposing how we have all been influenced by the "New Morality," how Playboy has shaped how even Christians think about sex, and a 12-step program to overcome lust and addictive fornication.

Premillennialism — the eschatological perspective which holds that Jesus could come at any moment to set up a hierarchical rule in Jerusalem — is held to by as many as 50- to 80-million Fundamentalists and Evangelicals. The view has infected many mainline Protestants and Catholics as well.

Following J. Stuart Russell, this work argues against the notion of a re-incarnation or "second coming" of Christ and establishment of hierarchical "Christian" kingdom based in Jerusalem. Shows that "Second Coming" texts which have been misused throughout church history were intended to strengthen the Apostolic Church by promising the imminent "coming" of Christ in judgment against statist pharisaism, freeing the Church to re-create Edenic Patriarchy.

Building on the volume above, this publication shows that modern pre-millennialism, ritualism, ecclesiocentrism, etc., are holdovers from Judaism (specifically, Pharisaism, or Talmudism), and how Jesus destroyed this religion in A.D. 70. This work has nothing to do with any Semitic people as such.

Judaism is not the only ancient religion which haunts us today. This publication shows how so-called "new age" concepts were invented by ancient opponents of Biblical Faith who sought to cripple and enslave the masses in the service of archist political and ecclesiastical systems. Modern "new-agers," such as Maurice Strong, are again attempting to enslave Christians to the corporate-political machines of the "New World Order." Christ inaugurated the true New Age, and is overthrowing the old world order which the "new agers" are vainly attempting to resuscitate.

Radical Predestination is the basis for radical personal and social change.

We trust the State because we do not trust God.

We are addicted to the promises of men because we do not believe the Word of God.

There really is a God.

Not a "force."

God.

The God of Moses,

Isaiah,

and Jesus

is the One, True God.

Man is not God.

Everything else follows.