KINGS AMONG MEN is a community centered around Honor. We believe in the importance of living an honorable life, and the strength in banding together with those whom do the same.

WHY COMMUNITY?

America is in uncertain times. That is something we can all agree on. It is the times like these – the most uncertain of times – that it becomes essential to come together in solidarity and pull one another through.

WHY KINGS AMONG MEN?

America abandoned the idea of community a long time ago. But all around you it’s easy to see a culture crying out for community. Some fill this void with church groups, sports teams, work, or gangs.

While these examples can do a lot toward satisfying the need for community, there are two reasons why they don’t seem to be filling the need.

Firstly, their main focus isn’t on the community itself. Whether it be drug trafficking or worshiping a particular deity, the true focus of these groups pull attention away from the community and naturally exclude otherwise valuable potential members.

That isn’t to say that there is anything wrong with these groups, or that you should up and walk away from your church group. But as long as the primary focus rests outside of the community [practicing your religion, playing a sport, or selling drugs], the community will never get the attention it deserves, and will never be a high enough priority. What then is needed is a group where the good of the community is the primary focus.

The second reason that these types of social groups fail to fill this basic need is that for one reason or another they are exclusionary. Exclusionary has virtually become a bad word now days, but the fact is, as long as it is fair and for good reason, there is nothing wrong with exclusion; it is just a fact of life. Some people won’t require the necessary skills for a certain sports team, be of a certain nationality for an ethnocentric organization, or may not be of a certain faith. While excluding someone that can’t catch a ball from a football team certainly serves the teams interest, as a member of the community that person may have been capable of adding a valuable contribution. Just as on your sports team your focus should be your sport, in your community, your focus should be your people.

HOW IS KAM ANY DIFFERENT?

I did a lot of research leading up to the formation of KAM. Upon doing so, I realized that there are tons of social clubs, organized for a myriad of reasons, even for the purpose of community itself. However it seems that the criteria for membership and communal focus always seem to end up excluding people for reasons arbitrary to the cause that do nothing to support the interest of the community.

By centering ourselves on Honor, and opening ourselves up to anyone willing to live honorably, we dually benefit by making the idea of being a positive force within the community the primary focus, and allow ourselves a larger pool from which to draw valuable and participatory members. Why shouldn’t people of different faiths, backgrounds, and beliefs come together in the same community.

At KINGS AMONG MEN we expect nothing more of you than for you to be an honorable person, and to hold us to that same standard.