A BOOK REVIEW John Eidsmoe, New Leaf Press, 304 pages, Paperback. Did Christopher Columbus exploit the people of America – or did he evangelize them? Did Hernando Cortez subjugate the people of Mexico – or did he liberate them? These…
Read moreA Book Review Pat Robertson’s latest work is a literary Trojan horse. Its misleading apocalyptic title is certain to attract many of those who may be predisposed to reject its message. The New Millennium is not for everyone – but…
Read moreJohn Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene, authors of Megatrends 2000 (the follow-up to the 1982 bestseller, Megatrends), have included a chapter in their new book entitled “Religious Revival of the Third Millenium,” which describes the “unmistakable signs of a worldwide multi-den…
Read moreIf it is possible in a courtroom to judge a defendant guilty or innocent, or in a laboratory to discover the relationship between physical properties and phenomena, it must be possible to know the truth about history. The word “history,”…
Read moreSegments of this series have traced the subtle infiltration of anti-Christian philosophies into the mainstream of American education. During Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s lifetime, his universal fame as a writer was not dimmed in the least by his outspoken espousal of…
Read moreWhen America was new, her most promising candidates for pulpit and classrooms were sent to Europe to complete their education. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s appeal at Harvard College for a distinctly American scholar would seem to deplore this custom. His complaint…
Read moreWhen Harvard University was founded in 1636, the school was expressly chartered to train pastors and teachers of the Christian faith. From the earliest days of the colonies and until well after the Civil War, American education was preeminently Christian.…
Read moreIn this continuing series, we have examined how the Christian influence in American letters was subtly edited from the modern educational curriculum. This month, we will highlight the life and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson – who is celebrated today…
Read moreWe have discussed in the last two installments of this series that a certain elite group of educators, writers, and literary critics set out in the mid- to late 1800s to discredit the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This scheme was…
Read moreFrom our nation’s beginnings, the Christian faith has been interwoven with American philosophy. Over a century ago, however, an intellectual elite arose with the purpose of deleting Christian ideals from American education. In this column we will examine in detail…
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Featuring Dr. Kenneth L. Gentry at the 1999 Ligonier conference
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Sixteen noted Christian leaders and scholars apply the Ten Commandments to American life.
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A Christian civilization is emerging from under the wreckage of Modern culture.