Creating Controversy: Who Knew Offering Hope Could be so Polarizing?

How can we work together in an age of so much tribalism?

This is not a poetic post. It’s not an act of creative writing. It’s an acknowledgement, lament, and a plea.

Danger: High Voltage.

The Deep Down Things, the book Amber and I wrote together, releases in October. We’ve turned in the manuscript and entered into an important phase of the publishing journey—marketing. We’re working through promotional plans, gathering endorsements, considering podcast availability. It’s an important season for a book, and if there’s one thing you generally wouldn’t find in this liminal space between manuscript completion and book release, it’s this: controversy. But if I’ve learned anything over the last handful of years, it’s that everything presents an opportunity for controversy when you live in an age of tribalism.