The Village
The Vision
I. The Concept of a Christian Exodus.
The word “exodus” is of Greek and Latin derivation, essentially meaning “the way out.”
We are creating a “way out” for Christians, a place for believers to escape the Babylonian system, both in terms of its decadence and its impending judgment. We are creating a place where Christians can live their faith without compromise to an apostate society or fear from anti-Christian authorities.
In this, we recognize the need to have places for Christians, regardless of income, both in remote locations within the United States and developed world, as well as locations in the developing global south where the next Christendom is rapidly ascending and in need of solid leadership and guidance.
II. Christian Love and Unity.
The CEP is a place where all true and sincere Christians, regardless of theological background, are welcomed into fellowship and who shall be accommodated in terms of their distinctive convictions, worship, and practices with the ultimate goal being greater unity over time.
Thus anyone who holds to those fundamental truths that define us as Christians (as summarized in the Nicene Creed) and endeavor to live a Godly life (as defined by the Holy Scriptures in the Law of God) and are willing to love and accept others who do the same, are welcomed by us as being our brothers and sisters in the Lord.
III. Christian Expression and Debate.
The CEP is a place where Christians are not only permitted, but encouraged, to openly debate their differences in brotherly love without being censored and where losing one’s temper is the greatest indication of losing the argument.
In the household of faith, there is no censorship or cancel-culture, so long as debate is done in civility, decency, and love and not in a spirit of sowing discord among the brethren or to publicly attack our project and leadership in a malicious manner.
IV. Biblical Masculinity and Femininity.
The CEP is where historic Christian patriarchy is not only the norm, but the rule. We are creating a place where women are encouraged to bring forth a Godly seed and to be submissive to their own husbands and to male authority in general. Likewise, we are a place where men are encouraged to protect, provide, teach, and lead in all areas of communal life.
We seek to raise a new generation of men and women that have no knowledge of divorce, broken families, and sexual immorality and where head coverings and dresses are as a common sight as yoga pants and green hair dye in LA.
V. Christian Independence and Inter-Dependence.
At the CEP, we strive for independence (through self-sufficiency) from the 9-5 rat-race, government interference, a corrupted food system, and the medical establishment. We are willing to fight and struggle to maintain this independence while also embracing our real dependence on God for His provision and on our fellow Christians for support and the sharing of our time, talents, and treasure.
In this, we recognize the balance of recovering once-lost traditional skills and crafts while making prudent use of new technologies in advancing Christ’s Kingdom in our interconnected and digital age.
VI. Education as Outreach.
At the CEP we see our principal mechanism for changing the church, and the world itself, in Christian education. We shall teach young men the “three cardinal” disciplines of a new Christendom in which they shall learn to (1) advance the kingdom by learning the skills of the future ( AI, blockchain, 3D printing, video game design, P2P, cyber-security, and storytelling), (2) defend the kingdom with the knowledge of the truth (Biblical study, systematic theology, church history, philosophy, economics, & apologetics), and (3) sustain the kingdom by learning the skills of the past (permaculture, homesteading, alternative medicine, midwifery, martial arts, artisan craftsmanship, trade-skills and culinary arts). At the CEP, young men and women will be prepared to fight for God’s people against the tide of a fallen culture and a globalist led takeover of our society as warriors for Christ, skilled in every way necessary for the rise of this new Christendom.
In this, the CEP also endeavors to overthrow the old paradigms thrust upon our children for generations. We will provide education for our children that is free like a local public school, organized and standardized like a private Christian school, while also being adaptable and parent-led like homeschooling. We shall take the best ideas of a rigorous classical Christian education on the one hand and the skills-focused freedom of unschooling on the other.
VII. Recovering the Historic Faith.
The CEP is not a cult, we are not trying to destroy the church and rebuild it in our own image; however, unlike the wicked system of “denominationalism” we begin with the assumption that the church is ultimately the communion of all believers.
Thus, though we tolerate and accommodate Christians of all theological backgrounds, such a militant ecumenicist approach is also necessarily offset by the structure of a real masculine and biblical leadership, proper vetting, and discipline for unrepentant and lawless individuals. What we tolerate is not necessarily what we teach, but what we teach is the understanding of the Biblical faith as held by all Christians everywhere and always and of those doctrines recovered in the Reformation. We are truly Reformed Catholic, Evangelical, and Orthodox.