America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.

Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

The sense of all stylistic change is that the underlying view of the world changes.

'Biblical worldview'. The term means literally a 'view of the world', a biblically informed perspective on all of reality. A worldview is like a mental map that tells you how to navigate the world effectively. It is the imprint of God's objective truth on our inner life.

My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.

Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.