The ideas of the 19th century have come to fruition in the 20th and 21st centuries, thanks to the high school literature class. Unfortunately, some students pay attention to the “great literature” of the great humanist empires. Kevin Swanson interacts with the ideas that destroyed the Christian faith in American literature, and presents a better way to teach children (for the last few Christians left in the west).
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“ Tempest in a Teapot ” Yes, I had to read Arthur Miller's play THE CRUCIBLE in high school and it was an overtly anti-Christian work that perpetuated many of the myths of the Salem Witch Trials. The nadir was reading the play INHERIT THE WIND (and then watching the movie), a work that viciously mocks fundamentalist Christians and dismisses as hopelessly ignorant a literal reading of Genesis. Those are two examples that spring to mind, BUT what I remember most from high school English is being introduced to Shakespeare and Dickens and many other wonderful works of literature. As Christians it's tempting to become paranoid and suspect a cabal of publishers and teachers are crafting anti-Christian textbooks and syllabi. Such is not the case, and I speak as a certified secondary English schoolteacher. The books don't set out to undermine faith, even if not promoting it. Chaucer, Milton, Blake, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and a host of other Christian authors still enjoy a place in the canon for upper-level courses. For the majority of students in the dumbed-down "Language Arts" classes, studying thoughtful works of substance has been replaced with reading popular young adult fiction and drawing pictures afterwards. Trivialization is more the threat and reality than the anti-Christian agenda Kevin suggests here.
Kevin Swanson has served as elder and pastor of Reformation Church, OPC since its inception. Kevin was raised on the mission field in Japan in the 1960's and 1970's. Together with his wife Brenda, they are bringing up five children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord....
