A Guided Descent
Blue Feather
Finding Living Water in the Age of the Shallows
by Will Henry
8 layers of descent. 38 guided prompts. One path back to the deep.
Launching April 4, 2026
Something has gone quiet in the culture.
Not the loud parts — those are louder than ever. The arguments, the outrage, the endless scroll of opinions nobody asked for. That noise is deafening.
But underneath it, in the places where real conversations used to happen — dinner tables, classrooms, faculty meetings, church halls — there is a silence that wasn't there before.
You've felt it. You're not alone. And the silence is not accidental.
A Descent in Eight Layers
Blue Feather takes you beneath the surface of a cultural crisis most people feel but few can name. Each chapter descends one layer deeper — from the silence you experience every day to the ancient patterns that explain why this keeps happening.
The Surface
The silence, the fear, the stagnant shallows
The Language
How words were captured and redefined
The Architecture
The intellectual blueprints behind the shift
The Machinery
How ideas became policy and enforcement
The Vacancy
What was removed — the sacred, the communal, the purposeful
The Consequences
Loneliness, despair, and the mental health crisis
The Ancient Pattern
This has happened before — Babel, Rome, and now
The Well
Living Water — the source, the way home, the depth
The Journal Edition
This Book Asks You to Write Back
The thesis of Blue Feather is that people have been silenced. The Journal Edition doesn't just explain the silence — it gives you space to break it. After each section, you'll find a guided reflection prompt and room to write your own story.
38
Guided prompts
8
Layers of descent
260
Pages
Grounded in Research. Told Through Story.
Drawing on sociology, linguistics, philosophy, theology, and story — from the Handless Maiden to the Woman at the Well — Blue Feather weaves research, narrative, and Scripture into a journey that doesn't just diagnose what went wrong. It asks you to reckon with what you find.
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Launching April 4, 2026. Available as a paperback journal and Kindle ebook.
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About the Author
William McGuire
William McGuire is a former school principal and international education consultant. Blue Feather is his first book.