The sixth chapter of What Was Meant for Harm: A Media Memoir of Faith, Fracture, and the Fight for Truth is now available.

This chapter marks a shift — not just in the country, but in my own sharpening discernment.

After losing my mother in late 2020, I saw everything differently — the media, the country, community, family, and myself. Grief has a way of stripping away illusions. By January 2021, the country was fracturing, institutions were tightening their grip, and the media narratives no longer matched what people were seeing with their own eyes.

I write about the days surrounding January 6th, the censorship wave that followed, and the realignment of voices as independent creators stepped into the space abandoned by gatekeepers. I also discuss working with Blue October at the Studios at Fischer — a creative refuge in a chaotic season.

Clarity was born from loss. I realized the reckoning wasn’t coming. It had already begun.

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