One of the Founding Fathers proclaimed, “An enlightened people will never suffer what was established for their security to be perverted to an act of tyranny.” The Patrick Henry College Institute is working to prevail over the ideas that threaten our freedom—we’ll hear more about this on today’s Home School Heartbeat with Michael Farris.
Mike Farris:
We hear a lot about the term “culture war,” how can we win the culture war?
Dr. Gene Veith:
Well, the basic unit of every culture is the family. So one of the things Christians can do is to build strong families. Have strong marriages, do good parenting, that’s the biggest thing we can do to really strike a blow for the culture war. The other thing is we can press the advantage that’s now opening up in education. We’re seeing now, among homeschoolers and some of the good Christian schools and colleges like Patrick Henry College that Christians can be better educated than the non-Christians. In the culture, it’s the educated people who tend to be the leaders. So these are two areas in the family and in education that as Christians we have a real advantage. And finally, we need to recover the doctrine of vocation, that’s that whole protestant doctrine about how we are to live out our faith in every dimension of our lives.
Mike:
Dr. Veith, I want to thank you for being one of those Christians on the frontlines, both in your writings and in your teaching at Patrick Henry College.
Dr. Veith:
Well, thanks for that.
Mike:
I’m Mike Farris.
