About this episode

The episode discusses the potential for reforming American academia, which is perceived as ideologically captured and hostile to biblical Christianity, by exploring its historical roots and practical change strategies.

A public university professor writes in with a question a lot of people quietly carry: if American academia feels captured by ideology and hostile to biblical Christianity, is it already too far gone or can it be reformed? We start with the history many classrooms skip, that early American colleges were overwhelmingly founded with explicit Christian commitments, then we get brutally practical about what change can look like when you’re the only one in your department who still believes it. O...

People in this episode

Hosts: Tim Barton, David Barton, Rick Green

Topics covered

• academia
• Christianity
• reform
• education
• history

Keywords

• academia
• Christianity
• reform
• education
• history
• public university
• ideology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: American academia, Christian, public university

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