Interview with Dr. Gene Edward Veith
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| Vol. 69, Prg. 6-10
August 7-11, 2006
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Our culture is abandoning Christianity. What can we do to redeem the arts, media, and other major areas of culture? On this week’s programs, Michael Farris and Patrick Henry College’s new academic dean discuss the solution of Christian education.
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Dr. Gene Edward Veith
Prolific author, cultural commentator, and longtime educator Dr. Gene Edward Veith became the academic dean of Patrick Henry College in July 2006. Formerly the cultural editor of World magazine, Dr. Veith is well known in Christian, conservative, and homeschooling circles through his writing and speaking on various aspects of Christianity and the culture.
Dr. Veith has been a columnist for World since 1996, accepting a full-time position with the magazine in 2004. The bulk of his career, however, has been invested in Christian higher education. He has served more than 20 years in Christian academia as a professor of English and, for eight years, as dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at Concordia University-Wisconsin.
In addition to his frequent columns for World, which explore the shifting intersection of faith and culture, Dr. Veith has published some 17 books in both scholarly and popular genres, several of which have been translated into foreign languages. His writings number more than 100 scholarly articles, reviews, and papers, including God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life; Christianity and Literature: The Soul of the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; Reading between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature; Loving God with All Your Mind: Thinking as a Christian in the Postmodern World; and Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture (winner of the 1994 Christianity Today Book Award).
Dr. Veith is also on the board of directors of Concordia Publishing Company, is a senior fellow at the Capital Research Center, and serves on the executive council of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. He and his wife, Jackquelyn, have three grown children, Paul, Joanna, and Mary.
