Equipping the builders of the Christian economy.
Alongside is a growing coalition of Christian businesses, craftsmen, and households—all aimed at faithfully building the Christian economy. Shoulder to shoulder. Stone by stone.
Our Mission
Alongside exists to equip households, businesses, and craftsmen to build the Christian economy, shoulder to shoulder. Our aim is to recover the Christian pursuit of excellence (truth, beauty, and goodness)—in every corner of Christendom—continuing a legacy of hard work once forgotten, and leaving an inheritance to our children's children.
Our Vision
To build a platform that unites the men who build Christendom. We envision a high-trust network of households, businesses, and craftsmen working alongside one another, rooted in the local parish, accountable to each other, and building a legacy worth inheriting.
Pillars
Christian Coalition
Shoulder to shoulder for the Kingdom—we hold our confessions while preferring Christ's people across them, in the contracts we sign and the dollars we spend.
Leaving an Inheritance
A man's work does not end with his own hand. Skill, trade, and a good name are passed down—from father to son, master to apprentice, generation to generation.
Localism First
Christians must have rightly ordered loves, flowing out from our families, churches, boroughs, states—in that order, and only then to our nation.
Household Economy
Business is an outgrowth of family life, not a separate world with its own rules. We extend the household into work—caring for employees as souls under our charge.
Male Rule & Headship
God has ordained men to rule in the home, in the church, and in society. Because business extends the household, it also belongs under male headship, with women laboring fruitfully from and for the home.
Honoring the Sabbath
The Lord's Day is not a productivity opportunity. We close the shop in trust—God can do more with our six days of labor than we could wring from seven.
Our Team
Rob Hewitt
@rjhewitt3Founder
Rob is a reformed Christian, husband, father of three, businessman, and devout churchman. With over 15 years of experience, he runs Livingstones Studio, where he creates high quality websites, brands, and apps for businesses and ministries across the nation. He is passionate about helping Christian men recover their God-given duty to work with excellence and to build a multi-generational inheritance of faith, wealth, and culture.
Mikie Smit
@MikieSmitAdvisor
Mikie is a Christian, husband, architect, and father of four. He is a founder of SteadCraft Architects and Builders and occasionally goes full nerd on the Anything But Architecture podcast. He enjoys hand quarrying, hand cutting, and hand stacking stone, as well as hand hewing timber and hand drafting. Mikie argues that there is as much to learn by working with our hands in the materials God baked into creation, and believes that as Christians, we have a duty to recover craftsmanship, quality, and beauty so that we may build together across Christian traditions.
Connor Neville, RLA
@ekklesiadesignAdvisor
Connor is a licensed landscape architect and master planner who brings more than a decade of experience shaping places across estate gardens, homesteads, farms, communities, and historic sites with skill, beauty, and a collaborative spirit. He is a deacon, husband, and father of four who is passionate about designing with excellence, pursuing God’s glory, and helping build places and communities that serve the future and honor the inheritance we leave behind.
Nathan Burns
Advisor
Nathan is a Reformed Christian, husband, father of three, deacon, and advertising creative director by trade. He has more than a decade of experience in advertising and digital marketing, and is passionate about applying his skillset to build the Christian parallel economy.
Work worth inheriting.
Join a growing, national coalition of men building the parallel economy of Christendom with excellence, craft, and confession.