Tom has stood in two rooms most people never see combined — the pulpit and the State Capitol. The Wrong Glasses is what he's learned standing in both: that America's crisis of debt and dependency is, at bottom, a crisis of what we've been trained to see as normal.
Coming in September 2026 on Amazon — paperback, hardcover, and e-book. Audiobook to follow this fall.
"It is a failure of the pulpit, and of the broader Christian intellectual tradition, to produce men and women who can read their cultural moment through a consistently biblical lens."
Put on someone else's prescription glasses, and the world blurs. Wear them long enough, and you stop noticing — you just assume the world looks that way.
That's America right now.
For a century, we've been handed the wrong glasses — a way of seeing government, money, and freedom that quietly trains us out of the biblical principles our founders assumed we'd keep. America doesn't have a debt problem. America has a discipleship problem.
The Wrong Glasses traces that shift from the founding era through today, and makes the case — plainly, without partisan slogans — that recovering a biblical view of freedom, stewardship, and self-government is the only way out of where we've landed.
In the book, Tom calls the pieces of that recovery spheres — family, church, community, government — gears that only work when each is the right size and seated where it belongs. The Wrong Glasses asks the harder question underneath: has the government gear grown too large while the others have quietly shrunk to make room for it — and what would it take to reset the whole mechanism, not just one gear inside it?
Written for Christian business leaders and civically engaged citizens who sense something is wrong but haven't had the categories to name it.