Rooted Statesmanship: An Appreciation of, and Response to, the Work of Trey Brock

Brock’s excellence and perseverance caught the eye of the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Roots Beneath the Republic

Abraham Lincoln described the Declaration of Independence as “the apple of gold” and the Constitution as the “frame of silver” built around it.
This tech entrepreneur wants to save the Constitution

Since the dawn of the American experiment in liberty in 1776 and the advent of our Constitutional Republic in 1789, “errors have crept in.”
The Stewardship of the “Little Platoon”

We are, in a very real sense, everyday patriots. We are entrusted with what Edmund Burke called “little platoons.”
Duty: The Forgotten Virtue (Recovering Responsibility in an Age of Convenience)

Many desire the benefits of rights—the freedom to speak, to act, to choose—while resisting the obligations that make those freedoms possible.
A country that stops to reflect – National Day of Prayer 2026

Stop, reflect, reset.
A Wall of Separation

Chief Justice Morrison Waite endorsed the now-famous phrase “as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the [First] amendment….”
Revival Before Revolution

“The body had nearly all returned to dust. Some portions of his grave-clothes remained.”
Following Wisdom

In early 1900’s America, President Theodore Roosevelt saw a storm brewing within Europe….
Why Faith Was Central to America’s Founding

Making sense of religion in a tolerant and diverse society.