My JUDGING ATHENA Interview with ACFW’s Fiction Finder

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This is a really, really good one! Many thanks to Jessica, Kathy, and everyone at ACFW.

Interview with Perrin Lovett 2025

Is there a message you hope readers will take away from this book?

Yes, in fact, there are several, all of them related to various facets of Christian salvation. The first is general salvation: Deference and surrender to God, and the redemption of the soul through the supreme sacrifice of Jesus. My extremely unusual plot device involves the speculative use of a second, very different kind of salvation, the understanding of which requires a high degree of trust, faith, and imagination. In her gracious review, Emma Cazabonne of Words & Peace called it, “…a neat use of Genesis 6 and 1 Corinthians 6—a Pauline statement mysterious enough to offer a lot of leeway to novelists!” Walt Garlington, reviewing Judging Athena at Confiteri, said, “Mr. Lovett’s use of this device elevates it to new heights at the end of his story: The tragic beauty of those scenes sears the heart with descriptions that the reader will not soon forget.”

Within the story, and in large part dependent on the Pauline mystery and a few assorted metaphors, the primary focus is on a third concept, that of joint marital salvation, the quest of a man and his wife to mirror the marriage of Christ and His Church and to thereby assist each other in reaching Heaven. In so many ways, the book is a celebration of marriage, love, and family. It is a portrayal of the glorified Christian replication of the original marriage in Eden. The coupling of Adam and Eve speaks to the supremely important nature of matrimony: man and woman are literal parts of Divine Creation, and they were literally made for each other by God. As we know too well, since those first days, things have gone awry due to continuing human temptation, error, hubris, and sin. The commitment of marriage, as exemplified by and through its three primary tenets, is one of mankind’s great, wholly unearned paths towards ameliorating original sin.

In the postmodern West, even under the guise of Christianity, we have faltered anew. I, unfortunately, know this from experience, as I suspect many who read this interview do as well. Here and there, marriage and families have sadly descended into the unserious throw-away status that afflicts our age. But we are not lost so long as we continue to maintain faith, discipleship, contrition, and humility. I hope all readers enjoy Judging Athena. Yet my primary hope is that young Christian men and women are inspired by my gentle little story and assured that they are, indeed, worthy. In defiance of the world, they can join together as one, be fruitful, be happy, and be righteous. I hope and pray that there will be many, many more Josh and Athena couples joined at so many altars.

Reflecting back, what do you see as most significant to your publication journey?

The neat, short answer is…….

Read the WHOLE THING at Fiction Finder.

*I am a happy member of ACFW. If you’re a Christian novelist, please consider joining.

 

Real Solutions

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Michael Hudson has a newish article that dovetails well with my last column about Murikan usury. It’s not a solution for Murikans – and they don’t want one yet – but it is for the rest of the world, what, in fact, they’re already doing. BRICS+ is just one of the new mechanisms allowing the sovereign peoples to break free of the West.

In Murikan, da Murikans still keep on … being themselves. Pedro Gonzalez offers some much needed advice about the real solution to the problems afflicting the US of A.

I’m convinced that the only meaningful thing that people can do right now is focus on building a foundation for themselves in something that is not political, something that is not connected to the success of a political movement or political personalities, because these things are ephemeral, these things will pass away, and you will be left with yourself and your conscience in the end.

I would suggest that instead of playing the idiotic political and economic games rigged up by satanists who hate people, Americans should focus on building families and a return to legitimate Christianity. They have nothing (else) to lose, and everything to gain (back).

COLUMN: The United States of Usury

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The United States of Usury

 

Every once in a while, one hears something about cherished, if undefined, “American values.” I’ve looked into them and I can now define the primary three. They happen to coincide almost perfectly with Evangelical ”Christian” Zionist values and the values of the fallen, post-Enlightenment West. They are usury, sodomy, and genocide. These values overlap and work together. Herein, I briefly examine the first value, usury, with further commentary on the others to follow. But first! A joke. In perhaps a world first, a passing whale in Florida called emergency services to report seeing a beached Randy Fine. And now…

It took me a long time to realize the truth about the country I grew up in and used to love. Both the essence and the official history of America is largely a matter of intentionally contrived falsehood. The immediate post-peak America I grew up in was mostly a pleasant but dishonest veneer—a facade now completely fallen away. Very little about what we’ve been told about the American experiment is accurate, much of it being maliciously misleading. Books like Nonsense of Stilts by Paul Graham and The Nation That Never Was by Kermit Roosevelt III are, in fact, revisionist histories. They revise the historical record so as to make it truthful.

Professor Michael Hudson perhaps best summed up the first American value, usury, as it relates to the country as a whole, when he essentially said that America, like all Western, post-Enlightenment nation-states, is little more than an agent for the international financial class. It is, and it always has been that way. 

English America’s history began in earnest on April 10, 1606, at Westminster, London, with the chartering of the Virginia Company of London. The Company was essentially a hedge fund that operated in a way equivalent to modern ventures. All risks and costs were borne by the people and all the profits went to the shareholders. Then, the formula was simple: kill or push back the native American Indians, loot everything for profit, manipulate English law as needed to maximize profit, and run the whole scheme with slave labor, at first using poor English and Welsh servants, then Polish and other European thralls, followed by African chattel slaves. While the names and parameters have changed, four hundred years later, the plan is still operational, though now on a global scale. The patterns established in early colonial America were applied against Russia and Ukraine beginning in the 1990s. On the back of US imperial meddling, banks and funds rushed in, stole what they could, and worked with Washington to conquer, enslave, loot, and destroy. Thankfully, the general wickedness met a roadblock. I consider that if the Native Americans had had Russian weapons, then I would be writing from the Catawba Nation. I’d probably be writing about something else entirely. 

Almost everything in American civic life revolves around usury and profit for the satanic international elites. The once-sovereign Dollar was replaced by pure usury or super usury, a unique arrangement whereby money is nonexistent and what passes for money is utterly under the control of the commercial banks. They conjure it, via fake loans, out of nothing and for free, and the people, literally sacrificing their lives, work like slaves to repay it. This evil system, in direct contradiction of the commandments of Almighty God and Jesus Christ, channels all value and ownership into the clawed hands of the elites. 

The effects of the mass financialization are, as I have noted time and again, ruinous for the people. By design, and as compared to large ticket items (houses, education, healthcare, etc.), salaried purchasing power has declined by over ninety percent since 1950. That means that, on average, in order to live as his grandfather did, the modern American man would have to work ten full-time jobs. As an elementary math student from the near past could tell one, there is a problem with that situation. Along with other factors, most of them related to the elements of sodomy and genocide, the loss of purchasing power is one of the key reasons why young Americans do not date, marry, or have children. Super usury is dysgenic and dyscivilizational. 

Americans tolerate this evil for a variety of reasons, including hopelessness, insanity, stupidity, and sheer wickedness. Rather than hunt down and slaughter the relatively small cadre of their oppressors, they continue to go along with the plan, many of them still happily participating in the failed, fake, and dead institution of democracy. Many of them will continue to do this until the final collapse.

The rest of humanity should continue doing what they are doing now—moving onwards and forward, away from the debased evil of the West. They should also memorialize the lessons of the Enlightenment as a warning for the future. Learn from it, but do not trust or emulate it! In this monetary case, they should lock money and banking tightly under sovereign control and strictly prohibit any form of usury. They’re already doing it, so this is somewhat superfluous, but they also need to do whatever is necessary to keep the dying rabid dog of America and the West at bay until the beast ceases to be of any threat. Even if it is never reborn in its homelands, the spirit of the original West will live on in other civilized, sovereign cultures. That is a great hope and reassurance of this age!

Deo vindice.

COLUMN: A Pleasant Unscripted Ramblin’

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A Pleasant Unscripted Ramblin’

 

Who, really, doesn’t love a good, old-fashioned gibbering about nothing in particular? Well, love it or not, like it or not, it’s all I have this week. I had high hopes for this one, but sometimes we must settle. 

I started a draft about Russia banning the de facto national religion of the GAE, but then I thought, “Why bother?” Indeed.

The late political circus idiocy of the former US is of little interest to me. So there was nothing there. I mean, it’s over, folks. Maybe it’s not time to move on just yet, but it’s probably a good time to start packing.

It’s hot as blazes this summer. But that’s most summers down here. The heat zaps a certain degree of my creativity, though I try to make up for it in other ways. Results vary. Et cetera. While great commercial success still eludes me, Judging Athena has turned into my first critically acclaimed and award-winning book. Thanks, readers and reviewers! The manuscript of AURELIUS, Tom Ironsides’s next hard-charging action novella is with Green Altar Books now. So there’s that. Once the heat and my mind settle a bit, I’ll be polishing the next literary installment and working on the drafts behind it. Due time, due time.

Rumor has it that children in Gaza took a break from starving to death to raise funds to buy some SlimFast for Randy Fine.

Generation X, I have some great news for you! I’ve been most privileged to read the first installment of a new American epic that will debut in January, Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome, Episode One: Bad Boy by Chris Orcutt. In fact, all American generations are in for a treat: a literal time warp back to the middle of the 1980s. It’s almost indescribably good. Much more on that soon.

As for other summer reading, I’ve done my usual. Some of it was great, some less so. A few reviews will be forthcoming. Right now, among several others, two notable novels I’m working on are The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates and The Thorn and the Carnation by Martyr Yahya Sinwar. Both show great promise.

While one is never quite certain about these things, I fear I will miss the end-of-summer and fall fun up at the world’s greatest amusement park, Tweetsie Railroad. Of course, that doesn’t mean you have to. In August, kids of all ages will delight in The Ghost Riders in the Sky and Railroad Heritage Weekend. Come the middle of September, the Ghost Train starts those spooky night runs. All that is in addition to the usual merriment. 

And … that’s all I gotz. More and better soon. Quality will improve tomorrow. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!

Deo vindice.

While the World Watches

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For the life of me, I could not generate even the shortest column last week or this past weekend. Something will come along soon enough. Been busy. But here are a few related items that I could have otherwise hurled over to the Blog Extension at Telegram.

The current official death toll in the Gazacaust is around 60,000. Or, including all of the official missing persons, who are assuredly dead, it’s about 75,000. That’s terrible. But MOA calculates, as others do, that the official count is an undercount.

[MOA] headlined:

Trump Wants To Take Over Gaza, Announces 500,000 Dead

In 2023 the internationally acknowledged Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics’ count of the population of Gaza was standing at 2,226,544. Trump wants to remove all Palestinians from Gaza and gives their number as 1.7 or 1.8 million:

Reporter: How many people are you thinking need to leave Gaza?
Trump: “All of them. Probably a million seven, maybe a million eight. They’ll be settled in areas where they can live a beautiful life.” (video)
This is an acknowledgement, by the president of the United States, that the genocidal Zionists have murdered up to 500,000 people in Gaza.

Steven Donziger’s calculations now confirm that range.

SHOCK: Israel Has Killed 20.7% of Gaza’s Population. That’s 434,000 People. – Donziger on Justice, Jul 22 2025

Here is the latest data, updated as of yesterday (July 21): based on a statistical model developed by a prestigious medical journal called The Lancet, Israel has killed roughly 434,800 people in Gaza since the country’s military started to attack the territory on 8 October 2023. That’s 20.7% of Gaza’s entire pre-conflict population dead. Over half are women and children.

If the same level of killing and indirect death that took place in Gaza during the 594 days of the conflict happened in the United States proportional to population, roughly 70 million Americans would have been killed.

It could be even worse than that now that mass weaponized starvation sets in.

For those with Telegram, here is one small victim. (Disturbing image)

Another.

100,000 more child deaths may be imminent.

Believe it or not, some “people” are okay with the carnage, even encouraging it. The enormously fat and insidiously wicked Randy Fine is one of them. I wonder how long it would take him, under similar circumstances, to waste away like the child victims above.

Like it or not, Amerika, this evil is in large part on you.

 

The MLK Records

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Having resolved the Epstein conspiracy once and forever (FORGET IT!), the wise and benevolent Trump has released 230K documents related to the assassination of Dr. King. THE DOCS.

I mean, if THIS doesn’t clear it up, then nothing will!

I posted this here to take pressure off of Telegram’s servers. The Blog Extension is working over there, absorbing most of the daily fluff and being viewed on average by … no one. Join https://t.me/CSApossum or be left behind. (If it continues to receive little to no attention, I will probably shut it down.)

Another Look at the RADICAL LIFE

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Professor Dugin reposted my review of his Dasha’s striking little diary compilation. God bless the Dugins! Please read the whole review on Alexander Dugin’s Substack!

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Dugina, Daria, For A Radical Life: Meditations By Daria Platonova Dugina, Tucson: PRAV, 2024. https://pravpublishing.com/product/for-a-radical-life/

Last fall, I had the privilege of reviewing Eschatological Optimism by the late Daria Dugina (1992-2022), a book I learned of thanks to a very good friend. Earlier this year, I was reminded by another great and lovely friend that a second posthumous Dugina book was forthcoming in English from PRAV. One simply cannot have enough literarily in-tune friends in this life. Nor can one get enough of Russia’s brilliant and ever-rising star of intellect and steely determination.

It’s a shorter work, only 70 pages. Yet each and every sentence in it, every word lifts the spirit, touches the heart, and engages the mind. It is a compact gem, expertly translated, compiled, and edited by Jafe Arnold and John Stachelski. I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in life, death, philosophy, and the eternal battle between Divine good and lowly evil. I also suggest the book would make a fine gift for, say, a college student or a young adult. Or for anyone.

Walt Garlington Reviews JUDGING ATHENA

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In his very direct review, Walt Garlington is overly kind and beautifully descriptive.

Southern novels for many years have been heavily marked by violence and cursing.  This story is refreshingly different.  One is able to enjoy mundane things like the taste of pancakes, or walk amongst the summits of Orthodox theology, showing how husbands and wives contribute to the salvation of one another, without unnecessary shocks to the soul.

Returning to Mr Poe, his combination of melancholy and beauty is one of his most powerful contributions to literature.  Mr Lovett’s use of this device elevates it to new heights at the end of his story:  The tragic beauty of those scenes sears the heart with descriptions that the reader will not soon forget.

Judging Athena is a truly redemptive and rewarding novel to read.  We recommend it to all.

Please read the whole thing at Confiteri. Thanks, Walt!