Unequally yoked is a metaphor for our different and increasingly binary worldviews. A yoke binds people together in different relationships and distributes the burdens as they strive for their united goals, whether it be man and woman in marriage, employer and employee in a company or Republican and Democrat in governing. We were yoked together in 1776, when our united goal was to be a nation under God. But that God-fearing identity has been shattered.
Now, our yokes seem heavy and more of a burden because we have different visions of how the world should operate. The conservative view embraces tradition and a transcendent God and heaven. The Left view embraces a God within and heaven on earth. Right now, we’re living in chaos and confusion as a movement is afoot to turn the structures we know upside down as secular elites try to create a new social contract.
Bambi’s goal: Have sincere discussions and conversations about America’s identity. There is a reason why so many in society are mentally ill, confused narcissists. In this effort to obsess about our authentic identity, we’ve lost our identity in Christ. False fears, like an existential climate crisis, are distracting us from what we should fear - God. Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.” Without this alignment in being God-fearing Americans, we are unequally yoked.
What is a yoke? A yoke is a wooden cross piece that binds two oxen together to share the load in a united effort to till the field. Similarly people are also yoked together to share the burden of building civilization and fulfilling all the jobs that goal entails. Everyone is different and yet we complement one another like the pieces of a puzzle. We’re not entirely sure what our piece is; we may not even know where it fits in the grand scheme; we may not like the piece we’ve been given nor the piece we’re next to; but the puzzle remains and our role in it is indelible. We’re all here for a reason and without each of us the puzzle is incomplete.
The term unequally yoked is a double entendre. It can mean a physical or metaphysical yoke and it profoundly captures our human condition, as beings with different constitutions but inextricably bound to one another. As a Christian, I am unequally yoked with a non-Christian. As a Republican, I’m unequally yoked with a Democrat. As a woman, I am physically unequally yoked with a man, but metaphysically, we can be equal.
Summary of book:
The bad news: You’re being manipulated by a divisive false narrative that is being force fed by a commandeered media machine. The good news: Our country isn’t nearly as divided as you're being led to believe. Unequally Yoked is an examination of America’s raging culture war. A deconstruction of the forces that are working to pull this country apart, and a defense of the founding principles of the greatest nation on earth.
Drawing on her experience as an award-winning journalist and leveraging her focus on the growing mental health crisis, Bambi Francisco Roizen shows how the progressive left hijacked the national conversation, shaped a false narrative that America’s original sin is racism, and the path forward to destroy the institutions that got us here. The book examines gender and race relationships, breaking down the media to reveal the weaponization of movements like #metoo and BLM, and the strategy of division in the name of harmony.
Whatever your political leanings, this book is a provocative read that shows how the false narrative came to be and how it is trying to fill a God-shaped hole in our hearts. Postmodern relativism has canceled free speech and has put power at the center of culture. Her solution is for us all to start with a posture of forgiveness and grace, enabling us to uproot the source of all sin, evil itself!