The Case for Christian Localism

Conversations That Matter

Jon Harris

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Article 1: The Case for Christian Localism: https://open.substack.com/pub/jonharris/p/the-case-for-christian-localism?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Article 2: The Culture We can Actually Build: https://jonharris.substack.com/p/the-culture-we-can-actually-build

Jon Harris argues that Christians and conservatives should prioritize local communities rooted in proximity, shared heritage, custom, and place to sustain civilization and authentic virtue. Humans are social creatures. Identity, trust, belonging, and moral formation arise from tangible local ties rather than distant ideologies or managerial systems.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Conversations, That Matter podcast, where we are forging a bold Christian vision for America.
0:15.7	I'm your host, John Harris.
0:17.5	We are going to talk today about localism, which is such an important topic. It is the need of the
0:22.1	hour because it channels where our loves, our loyalties, and our investments should go,
0:29.6	primarily to those we know, who we love, who we are in tangible proximity to on the local level.
0:36.6	And that is where lasting change really does happen.
0:39.7	Now, I know most of you were probably raised not to think about government or society,
0:44.5	the way that I'm going to present it to you today,
0:47.3	which is why it is so important that we recover the blueprint.
0:51.7	That's what we're going to do today.
0:53.0	We're going to recover the blueprint
0:54.4	from our not just Anglo-Protestant past, but from the biblical framework and the natural order
1:00.8	that God has set up. So hopefully that sounds good and it will be an encouragement to you and
1:06.0	maybe even touch your heart a little bit as we talk about it. I want to first let you know about something
1:11.5	that's coming up though before we get into all of that. On May 1st through 3rd, there is going to be
1:17.5	a conference in Tampa area in Florida. If you live in the Tampa area in Florida, I encourage you
1:23.9	to come out. It is called the Truth Conference, and you can find out more about it by going to
1:29.5	the truthfellowship.org. The truthfellowship.org. I will be speaking there. I know Dr. Russell Fuller will be there and a number of other people, and it will be a big blessing for you. You can look forward to that. the truthfellowship.org. Okay, let's get into it. Let's talk about localism a bit. It's not an ism.
1:47.3	That's the into it. Let's talk about
1:45.1	localism a bit. It's not an ism. That's the first thing. I refer to it that way, but it's really not an ism. It's just the normal way that people interact with each other because humans are social beings that God created. And so I start off in my substack piece, which is called the case for Christian localism, which is on this very topic,
2:01.6	I start off with a quote from Robert Louis Dabney, the Presbyterian theologian.
2:05.6	He says, government is not the creator but the creature of human society.
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