Walt Alexander puts himself on the line for his beliefs. The fact that he founded this magazine is an excellent example of this, but there are many others aspects of this in his life as well. “When you study scripture, you can’t help but recognize that many of the people God used for extraordinary things really went through a lot of difficulty. I remember doing a lot of reading in the book of Jeremiah and watching programs and hearing sermons about faith. There’s a lot to be said about that, being like a refining fire a blacksmith uses, burning off the impurities, but I like the analogy of building a great building. The higher you intend for the building to be, the farther down you must start laying the foundation. God intended to raise people like Joseph and Moses to great heights, but first he had to make them strong by going through hardships. I’ve tried to see my life that way. When my life was hard, and I felt like I was in the pit, I tried to realize that this was necessary so I could rise higher.”

Like many others, Alexander had to make drastic changes in his career because of so many jobs going out of the country. “For many years I worked in technical support and networking, helping people solve technical issues and I thought that I would be doing that for the rest of my life, but then those jobs started going overseas around 2005 and by 2007, it was very hard to find a job in that field. I didn’t really want to go into sales. I’d studied accounting and financial planning in college and sales really didn’t appeal to me, but the Lord had different plans. I started working in telemarketing and it can be really mind-numbing work so I started broadening my direction by writing an article for the company magazine. They published it and It made me feel really good and I started thinking along those lines and that opened up a whole new area that I probably would never have considered otherwise.”

Something had taken hold in Alexander, It was the beginning of a vision which then grew and matured and became more focused. “I often take my son to the bookstore and, when he was about three or four, he would play with the trains and the other toys and I would grab a few magazines off the rack to look through while he was playing. It always struck me there were very few magazines that reflected Judeo/Christian values. Nearly every magazine that had anything of interest to an adult focused on worldly values. There seemed to be a taboo on any sort of opening discussions about faith or spiritual values. You could find a few publications that were totally geared to persons of Judeo-Christian values but those magazines didn’t really examine life in today’s world. Instead they just focused on their specific religious beliefs. I know that nearly half of the people in America have solid spiritual beliefs, but most of the media acts as though it is a very small percentage.”

Yeah. What do you think that’ll take to turn the nation around? It takes a man with solid values, talent and commitment to even attempt such a project. It takes a Walt Alexander to accomplish it.