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New Book from Patrick Westfall Argues Humanity’s Core Problem Is ‘Misalignment,’ Not Ignorance
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Patrick Westfall has released "The Ancient Hubris," a philosophical and biblical work arguing that Scripture should be read as a single, unified narrative about humanity’s struggle to stay aligned with what the book calls the Eternal Source, rather than as a collection of separate religious texts. The book is published by Hawes & Jenkins and is available now at major retailers including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple’s iTunes Store, and Google Play, as well as through the publisher’s website.
The book’s full title, "How to Align With Divine Power to Overcome Disharmony Caused by an Ancient Hubris," signals its scope: a narrative that the author traces from before the biblical Fall of man through recurring patterns of authority, deference, exile, and restoration. According to the announcement, Westfall frames this as evidence of one recurring temptation running through history — the replacement of ultimate truth with substitutes — and examines how that pattern plays out both in institutions and in individual conscience.
Westfall is described as an independent biblical and philosophical writer who draws on Scripture, history, and institutional observation to build frameworks for recognizing what the announcement terms hidden manipulation and false authority. His approach, per the publisher, emphasizes discernment and personal responsibility over religious performance or ideological conformity.
"This work exists because I became convinced that humanity’s deepest problem is not a lack of intelligence, technology, or information," Westfall said in a statement. "It is misalignment. When people understand the ancient pattern, they gain clarity about their own lives and the world around them. That clarity is both liberating and demanding."
The publisher describes the book as equipping readers with a new interpretive lens for reading Scripture, history, and institutional behavior, and for examining their own spiritual condition. Westfall’s title shares its name, coincidentally, with historian Alistair Horne’s 2015 book "Hubris," a study of military overreach in six twentieth-century battles — an unrelated work, but a reminder of how durable the term has proven as shorthand for the kind of overreach that invites downfall, a concept with roots in Greek tragedy.
Studio CarryOnHarry will be watching whether Westfall’s framework finds traction beyond the readers already inclined toward this kind of biblical-philosophical synthesis, or whether its language of hidden manipulation and false authority draws a wider, more skeptical audience into the conversation.
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Montgomery Author Thomas McGowan Releases Memoir of Faith, “God Stories,” Through Covenant Books
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Thomas McGowan has published a new memoir, "God Stories: A Collection of 18 Remarkable God Stories from One Ordinary Man’s Life, Over a Span of 30 Years," through Covenant Books. Studio CarryOnHarry received an announcement describing the book as eighteen personal accounts drawn from three decades of McGowan’s life, organized around three themes: divine protection, material provision, and shifts in perspective.
McGowan, who lives in Montgomery, New York, with his wife Susan, writes that he committed his life to Christ at fifteen and has spent the four decades since building a practice of daily prayer. According to the announcement, the book’s eighteen stories include accounts of protection from danger, illness, and injury, provision of land, equipment, and housing, and experiences he describes as having reshaped his outlook on his own circumstances.
The book’s framing device, per the announcement, is a direct question McGowan poses to readers: do you really believe God will answer your prayer. "My deepest desire is that these stories will ignite a passion in readers to pray more intentionally about everything in their lives, and through that prayer, to encounter the same God who parted the Red Sea and toppled Jericho’s walls," McGowan said in the release.
The publisher describes the work as intended to invite readers to examine their own relationship with prayer and to consider the events McGowan recounts as evidence of divine involvement rather than coincidence. McGowan and his wife have raised four children, who the announcement states continue to practice the same faith.
"God Stories" is available through Covenant Books and at major retailers including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, and the Apple iTunes Store.
Studio CarryOnHarry sees this as part of a steady stream of personal-testimony memoirs reaching readers through Christian publishing houses, a genre that finds its audience less through critical attention than through word of mouth in churches and faith communities.
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Patrick Westfall’s “The Ancient Hubris” Reads Scripture as One Continuous Story About Authority and Truth
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Patrick Westfall has published "How to Align With Divine Power to Overcome Disharmony Caused by an Ancient Hubris," a biblical and philosophical work released as "The Ancient Hubris" through Hawes & Jenkins. The work frames Scripture as a cohesive narrative centered on a core theme: humanity’s tendency to displace genuine truth with false alternatives.
Beginning before the Fall and continuing through recurring motifs of authority, deference, exile, and restoration, Westfall traces this pattern throughout the biblical narrative, per the publisher. The project is framed as both a philosophical examination and what the announcement calls a spiritual diagnosis, looking at how people gradually give up personal conscience, how institutions turn into instruments of control, and how moral drift can spread through a culture while still looking reasonable and civil on the surface.
As an independent biblical and philosophical writer, Westfall draws from Scripture, history, and institutional analysis to develop frameworks that help recognize hidden manipulation and false authority., both in public systems and in private life. His work emphasizes clarity, discernment, and personal responsibility rather than religious performance or ideological conformity, according to publisher materials.
"This work exists because I became convinced that humanity’s deepest problem is not a lack of intelligence, technology, or information," Westfall said in a statement. "It is misalignment. When people understand the ancient pattern, they gain clarity about their own lives and the world around them. That clarity is both liberating and demanding."
The book is available through bookstores and major online retailers, including Amazon, Apple Books, Google Play, and Barnes & Noble, via Hawes & Jenkins. It’s worth noting the title overlaps with Sir Alistair Horne’s 2015 military history "Hubris," which examines twentieth-century battlefield overreach — a different book entirely, but a reminder that the word carries a long shelf life across very different genres.
Studio CarryOnHarry will be curious to see whether Westfall’s framework finds traction with readers looking for a systematic lens on Scripture, rather than a devotional or topical approach.
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