{"product_id":"navigating-the-interregnum-david-a-kantor-9798234016461","title":"Navigating the Interregnum: Crossing Into Open Sea","description":"\u003ci\u003eNAVIGATING THE INTERREGNUM\u003c\/i\u003e argues that our civilization is passing through a prolonged crisis of disorientation: old spiritual centers have weakened, yet no new morally adequate integration has emerged to replace them. The result is a culture strained by fragmentation, mistrust, ideological substitution, institutional brittleness, and a growing tendency to seek salvation through politics, identity, technology, and control. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReading \u003ci\u003eThe Urantia Book\u003c\/i\u003e alongside social theory, history, and Christian reflection, this book interprets the interregnum not simply as a period of decline, but as a crisis of displaced ultimacy-a loss of the vertical axis of spiritual values by which persons and societies remain inwardly ordered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the heart of the book is a central claim: \u003cb\u003eOnly persons generate spiritual values.\u003c\/b\u003e Institutions, systems, and movements may preserve, distribute, and formalize values, but they cannot create them. Recovery therefore cannot begin with campaigns, branding, recruitment, or structural redesign alone. It must begin upstream, in the re-anchoring of persons to God, conscience, worship, moral seriousness, and the slow transformation of character. From that interior source, values migrate outward through relationships, communities, practices, institutions, and finally culture itself. This pattern is developed through the book's \"Social Genesis Sequence,\" a framework for understanding how genuine renewal actually spreads.\u003cbr\u003eThe book also offers a sober strategy for dissemination of \u003ci\u003eThe Urantia Book\u003c\/i\u003e under late-modern conditions. It argues that overt promotion, enlistment, and identity-based movement-building are counterproductive, especially in a suspicious age quick to interpret new religious energies as cultic. In place of recruitment, \u003ci\u003eNavigating the Interregnum\u003c\/i\u003e advocates \u003cb\u003equiet infrastructure\u003c\/b\u003e: wide availability of the text, secondary and mediating works, non-coercive inquiry spaces, small communities of formation, and a distributed ecology of spiritual practice in which the revelation can be discovered rather than pushed. The aim is not to build a movement, but to make a life-giving framework quietly accessible to serious seekers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUltimately, this is a book about \u003cb\u003eSoulcraft\u003c\/b\u003e: the cultivation of persons whose inner lives are re-centered on the will of God and whose transformed values can become socially consequential downstream. It is both diagnosis and strategy, warning and hope. For readers concerned with the future of civilization, the crisis of modern culture, and the role \u003ci\u003eThe Urantia Book\u003c\/i\u003e may play in a planetary spiritual renewal, \u003ci\u003eNavigating the Interregnum\u003c\/i\u003e offers a deeply considered vision of how lasting transformation begins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David A. Kantor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798234016461\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Urantia Book Films Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d","brand":"David A. Kantor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50546427461887,"sku":"9798234016461","price":5.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/navigating-the-interregnum-david-a-kantor-9798234016461","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}