The Soul of the Secular Campus: Can It Be Saved? 

Host: Dr. Jamie Mitchell

Guest: Dr. Corey Miller

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 2/3/26. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

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Jamie Mitchell:

Good afternoon. Welcome again to Stand In the Gap. Today I am your host, Jamie Mitchell, director of church culture at the American Pastors Network. Well, here’s a piece of history you may not be aware of. Did you know that Harvard, Yale, Princeton, all have deep Christian roots and were founded to train clergy and promote Christian virtue? Same is true for Brown Columbia and Duke universities. Harvard founded in 1636 named after John Harvard, a Puritan who had a burden for training illiterate ministers and who gave his library and his life savings to the college. Back in that day, they were required to study Greek and Hebrew, and their original motto was Truth for Christ and his church, Harvard University, 1701 a congregationalist clergy began it. They were committed to a Puritan religious education and strict requirements and daily chapel. Princeton University 17th 46, by a presbyter ending included John Dickerson who advanced the Presbyterian theology, and their original motto was under God.

She flourishes. Brown, founded by Baptist Columbia, by Anglicans, and Duke University by Methodist all had schools of divinity. So why this history lesson? Well, by the 1900’s, these places of higher learning had drifted and departed from their original intent and slowly declined at the havens of godlessness. They are no longer training for righteous purposes or for the cause of Christ and most promote sadly to say an anti-Christ rhetoric. The problem is that it is colleges and universities that have a major influence on the minds and hearts of our nation. Around 18.4 million students attend US colleges and universities in the fall of 2025 and about 15.3 million undergraduates, 3 million graduate students, and the large share of these students attend the public four year university. The secular university is both a source of damage to the soul of our young people, or it could be the greatest mission field known to the evangelical world.

It is that quandary is the purpose of our program today, our theme is the soul of the secular campus. Can it be saved? And to help our discussion is a new guest to stand in the Gap. Dr. Corey Miller. Corey is the CEO and President of Ratio Christi, a ministry that focuses on college students and professors and attempts to engage in rational, intellectual and biblical conversations about faith, life. And God, he’s the author of a new book, which is the foundation of really this program, the Progressive Miseducation of America. Corey, welcome to Stand in the Gap Today. My dear brother,

Corey Miller:

Jamie, it’s so great to be here with you. Thanks for inviting me.

Jamie Mitchell:

Corey, we have a lot of ground to cover, but here is where I think we need to start. Your ministry focuses on the secular university campus. What is the state of the secular university soul? How corrupt is it and are there any encouraging signs and what are the factors to play on the college campus today? Help our listers understand and pull back the curtain for us.

Corey Miller:

Yeah, the soul of the university is sort of like the soul of the first man, Adam, whose whole soul was designed to be purposed for giving glory to God. And that’s how our universities from Europe to the United States and even to Southeast Asia for literally hundreds of years up until 1840, virtually every college professor was also a member of the clergy. And up until 1880, church and chapel attendance were still required. So this secularization and really radical secularization is fairly new in the picture. But think about this in the same way that Adam started out, a soul pointed to God and then became corrupt. Harvard’s motto was a truth for Christ in the church for almost 300 years. Well, two months ago they hired a drag queen professor named Lahore Vata. Think about that. And in 2019 was the first time there are now more atheists than agnostics on the campus for the first time ever in almost 400 years than Protestants and Catholics, the chief chaplain is an atheist.

He moved down to Yale, the second university, it was at Veritas Light and Truth, and it produced people like Jonathan Edwards, the great American theologian. And today in Yale Divinity School you have a Mohawked lesbian professor named Lynn Toad who has a book out based on a course she teaches called Queer Theology, which she says isn’t really about theology at all. It’s about critical queer theory and they’re going to be exploring queering God and queering Christianity. And then you’ve got Princeton Sub Vette, which is under GCI flourishes, and that’s where Jonathan Edwards was president of Princeton Theological Seminary. Today you have the most famous moral philosopher alive, Peter Singer who endorses sex with animals so long as it’s mutually consensual and there’s no harm inflicted on the animal. And then in that same order, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, 99 98, 90 7% of their faculty gave campaign contributions only to one political party.

And we might guess what that is. So it has become utterly corrupt. The higher up you go. And if we’re not preparing for it, parents and grandparents are literally paying for the apostasy of their own children. But at the same time, Jamie, I can say that there is room for hope. One of our campuses has seen 50 students saved per semester for the last couple of semesters in the recent Tennessee court case that banned surgical and chemical castration for children. That ended up going to the Supreme Court. Clarence Thomas cited in that case one Amy Key brief out of 88 that were submitted in his favoring the Tennessee ban. And that brief happened to be written by one of our student officers who graduated from our chapter at University of Berkeley all places and went on to law school. One of our other chapter student officers went to law school and clerked under Brett Kavanaugh. And then we currently are not only doing apologetics evangelism at the undergrad level on a hundred plus campuses, we’re also funding Christian PhD students to launch PhD student only chapters at the top 100 colleges so that over 40 or 50 years we are wanting to take back aspects of the university.

Jamie Mitchell:

Wow, Corey. People tell me that I can be a hopeless optimist and believe that God can do all things and I do. I believe God can do the impossible. Yet the spiritual condition of American colleges and university and the power that it influences challenges my optimism. And as you give a description of these universities, my heart sinks, but I know that there is light now when we return, Corey will begin to lay out for us some of the greatest threats to the Christian message and a roadblock to impact as he ministers on the secular campus. Listen, you may be sending your kids and your grandkids to a Christian college and may want to know nothing about the secular campus, but those colleges are graduating people influencing our society today. We need to be concerned. Stay with us at Stand the Gap today. Welcome back today, Dr. Corey Miller from Ratio Christi in the author of the new book, the Progressive Miseducation of America is my guest, and we’re looking at the spiritual condition of the secular campus. Corey, I want our listeners to fully understand all that ministries like yours and other gospel committed organizations are facing when you attempt to reach today’s university students, it’s not enough that you might be a acknowledged organization. There’s still probably limitations in things they face. Can you outline for us what are the roadblocks to reaching today’s students?

Corey Miller:

Well, I would say three. One, when they leave the comfort of their, say Christian homes and youth groups and go off to the secular baptismal font, the university Friday night on frat row is party night and everybody wants to do it. Some of the Christians, however say I’m not going to do it because I have conviction. But then Monday through Friday, they’re facing the ideas in the classroom, shooting holes in their bucket, making their bucket completely empty out, and Friday night comes back around and now they’re going to give in because they’re not even confident. They can believe these things that held them back on the previous Friday night. And these are the ideas that have consequences and consequences can make victims. And then the third issue is you might find this unbelievable. This is not part of our ministry. It’s not supposed to be anyway, but since I’ve been here, we’ve had about 160 legal proceedings, four federal victories, five appellate court victories, two SCOTUS assist, and one victory in the Department of Education. Right now I’ve got no less than 10 inquiries going on right now across the nation. And so they want our tuition, they want our children, but they do not want our ideas on campus. And so we’re fighting to even exist there and fighting against on one side of the campus. It’s scientific naturalism that physical world is all that is. And on the other side of the campus and the humanities and social sciences, it’s relativism and cultural Marxism.

Jamie Mitchell:

Corey, just so our people understand a ministry like yours or Campus Crusade InterVarsity, they have had access to the secular campus, but it’s not always easy to get on there. Just take a minute or so. What’s it like even to get recognized on a campus

Corey Miller:

Campus? Well, you standardly have to have a couple of student officers because these are typically student clubs, student represented clubs, and you have a constitution that they are required to have. And we have alliance defending freedom, our legal partner draft most of those, and then you have to have a faculty advisor and get accepted as a recognized student organization and RSO on campus. But our fights have been everything from speech codes lexicon of thou shalt knots that you’re not supposed to say to funding that they may give to the LGBT groups, but they won’t give them to us, to our doctrinal statements and them discriminating against us and kicking us off campus or inhibiting us from being approved as a recognized student organization. And that’s why I say they want our students for the brains to be molded in the classrooms and they want our tuition dollars, but they don’t want the competing ideas. These places are no longer places that are pursuing truth at the heart of it, Veritas, it’s not a place of viewpoint diversity. The only diversity they’re honoring is skin color and body parts rather than the free competition and exchange of ideas.

Jamie Mitchell:

Now, I want to recommend that you get Corey’s book and we’re going to talk about that a little later, but perusing your book and it’s just chockfull of information that will help people understand the secular campus. But in your book, Corey, you discuss the influence of Marxism within the academic structure today and it’s hard even to believe that, and my guess is most Christians, most evangelicals know a little bit about Marxism, but how pervasive is it? And from your perspective, do you think that most evangelical Christians fully understand the threat of Marxism, especially on the college campus?

Corey Miller:

No, they don’t understand it. Jamie, look, after the sixties generation came and went, they figured that they needed to focus explicitly on the long march through the institution. The workers of the world were no longer those in the factory floors. They needed to be in academia, and this happened to be the explicit trajectory and marching orders by the critical theory school in Frankfurt. We’ve all heard of critical race theory, critical gender theory, critical queer theory, critical pedagogy, all of that stuff that was over in Germany and got exported over here. And then likewise, the most famous probably or most dangerous cultural Marxist San Antonio Grahams you who never got out of prison, but his prison notes in Italy got mediated to the English speaking world right here in our state of Indiana, red state, right in the middle of the country at so-called Christian College Notre Dame by a Marxist professor named Joseph Buttigieg, father of Mayor Pete.

So what Pete was busy doing was not just practicing homosexuality. He had imbibed as a child critical queer theory like they’re teaching now at Yale Divinity School and other places. Well, these guys got into the university right when the crest was changing in the nineties, the ratio of liberal to a conservative professor was 2.3 to one. It is now 25, 30 years later for those of a retirement age, it’s 12 to one for those who are just getting tenure and have another three or four decades ahead of them, it’s 23 to one and at the Ivy Leagues it’s 27 to one. Now what’s happening is we’re looking at the second major ideological change in the universities since the Christian started it. The first one was scientific naturalism and that gave us liberal Protestantism and the social gospel when it filtered down to the church. This one is postmodern cultural Marxism coming out of the humanities and social sciences and it has given us social justice and has infiltrated as it was designed to do, not just academia and media and politics, but quaia the churches.

And let me give you a stat on how many there are. This is for those who self admit, and this was about a decade ago or more, those who explicitly say they’re Marxist in the social sciences, 18% activists, 21% radicals, 24%, 63% in the humanities, it comes down to 50%. The majority of professors are going to be explicitly Marxist activist or radicals by their own admission in the social sciences and humanities and then that of course jump tracks into the hard sciences. So we are looking at a very, very severe problem unless your listeners think, well, we just send them to the Christian schools. No, I could report on those as well because everything is coming from the campus moving into the culture and including those who are getting their PhDs are going into the Christian schools and so forth, and that’s how we lost the universities in the first place. We didn’t have PhD programs and we sent them all over to Germany. I get into this in my book of how we lost the universities in two phases and right now it’s happening to the Christian schools.

Jamie Mitchell:

Well, yeah, I mean that was a fascinating piece of information that when colleges and universities began to be founded and established here in America to get legitimacy, they needed people who had doctorates. And so the only doctorate mill, the only PhD factories were in these liberal bastions and these Marxist driven organizations. Isn’t that basically how it all kind of unfolded, Corey?

Corey Miller:

Yeah, I mean that first revolution was between 1880 and 1930 when all of our people were getting PhDs over in Germany where you have Nietzsche and Freud and Marx and Emmanuel, K and then Schleiermacher, the father of modern liberal theology, they all came back, took the top positions, presidents, administrators, professors, and we got kicked out of the universities and right in the 1930s when the dust was settling and they had taken over and then we went and started Calvin and Wheaton and Biola and Westminster, something nefarious was happening once again in Germany and that was the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and this cultural Marxism and then the founding of Postmodernism and all the founders of postmodernism were also members of the French Communist Party or sympathizers. So all of those people ended up coming over teaching at US universities and they’ve been doing so for the better part of the last century. And so when we send our students off to these second of baptismal fonts Ill-equipped from our homes where both parents are working full-time and exhausted at night or in the churches, which often are focused more on skinny jeans and fog machines rather than equipping people. According to Ephesians four 11 and 12 with scripture and theology, we’re as pastors often getting our cues from not scripture and theology, but culture and sociology. So no wonder we’re finding it in the churches as well.

Jamie Mitchell:

Wow, friends, I hope you are picking up on this. Part of this story is not just what’s happening at the secular campus, but when we send our kids into these schools and listen as Corey outlines in his book and we’ll talk about that, I mean it’s even in the Christian university because Christian universities have wanted to follow suit and have people who have high levels of degrees and recognized doctorates and all of this and they’re sending their faculty to these institutions and they’re getting infected friends. I can tell you that the influence of cultural Marxism, critical race theory and all of these other poisonous relatives are finding their way into churches and Christian institutions. It is worth getting Corey’s book and becoming educated on this subject. Now when we return, we’ve heard that Charlie Kirk and his organization were making inroads impacting students. I want Corey to address that.

I want talk about that influence. That was a big event that took place in Sierra, the loss of a Charlie Kirk. How has that a ripple effect affected our college campuses? We’re talking about the influence of the secular university today here at Stand in the Gap today. Thank you for staying with us or maybe you’re just joining our program. Welcome. Today we’re discussing the American Secular College campus and the spiritual climate and the challenges at the university level. Dr. Corey Miller from Rcio Christie as our guest. Corey, before I forget, will you take a moment and please explain your ministry. What does your name mean? How can they find out about what you do and especially where can they purchase your new book on the progressive Miseducation of America?

Corey Miller:

Yeah, we have to have our name in Latin because we’re academic. So Ratio Christi means the reason of Christ, so we’re not just God-centered, we’re our vision. Thoughtful Christianity, transforming lives on campus today, changing culture tomorrow and our mission is equipping students and professors primarily with historical, philosophical and scientific reasons for following Christ. We’ve got a college ministry on over a hundred campuses. We’ve got undergrad college prep ministries to prepare them not just to survive but to thrive on the secular campus. And then we’ve got a PhD student ministry and professors, and then we’re in 15 countries and we have a press with a lot of booklets as well. You can go to dr corey miller.com and Corey is with an DR corey miller.com and you can read part of my book for free. You could go elsewhere and get it on Amazon, but you can read part of it for free. You can invite me to speak to your campus, to your church, to your conference, your men’s ministry, and you can see from there all of our chapters and all of our booklets and so forth, or just go directly to ratio christie.org and join the movement.

Jamie Mitchell:

Well Corey, we’re so glad to have you here today. Let’s continue in this conversation about the college campus and something really significant that happened this year. All of us we’re shaken, obviously by the killing of our brother Charlie Kirk this past September. One of the things that occurred was the majority of the country really didn’t know much about him, but then they began watching his YouTube videos and they began to fully understand Charlie and Turning Point USA’s influence on the college campus. But then after his death we heard rumblings of revival Bibles flying off the bookshelves chapters beginning massive rallies, spontaneous baptisms, and I obviously believe and pray for revival. I want to see it in my lifetime. From your perspective, Corey, of what you’re seeing, what has the aftermath of Charlie’s death had on the effective campuses and is there a revival happening? What did that event actually do and what are we seeing now almost six months after the fact?

Corey Miller:

Yeah, I mean it’s quite mixed. I’ve been a speaker for Turning Point USA now did one at University of Louisville with Megan Basham on an Ask Me Everything. I’m supposed to be speaking and interviewed by Indiana’s Lieutenant governor in a few months on Christian nationalism and then I’ll be speaking sometimes with their organization across the country on Christ and culture events. I think they’re moving in the right direction. They’ve got some obstacles they’re facing, but that whole Charlie Kirk assassination, that whole phenomenon, it was kind of like nine 11 in a sense. On nine 11, America was bombed. 12 people started asking What is a Muslim nine 13, they went back to church in nine 14, we forgot about it. And then elected mom, Danny, a Marxist Muslim in New York City, there’s something similar within 24 hours. The entire country, the entire world, it was a global phenomenon.

They were talking about it in Australia and Japan and Europe and so forth, but then some real nasty comments started coming out and you started seeing where the hearts were at aligned with this whole thing and they believed that Charlie had to go, he was having free speech that was violent speech and in violent speech he was erasing people’s existence like trans existing persons. And so he had to go, he had to die. We exist in an assassination culture today according to the New York Post, and 56% of registered Democrats, strangely, according to a Rutger survey, said that they would think it morally justifiable to assassinate our president. So we are in a different place now. I mean they’ve just invaded a church in Minneapolis. We are living in a revolution. It’s a soft revolution, not the guns and pinks yet that we think of revolutions, but it’s been happening for a long time and it starts in the campus and bleeds out in culture.

What you’re seeing today in culture is what came from the campus. And so Charlie Kirk had a huge impact and his passion was the lost boys of the West. And increasingly he moved from just politics to Christianity to Christian apologetics. He had his pulse on something important and that was the university because as goes the university, so goes the culture and as goes the US University, so goes the world. But what about this revival stuff? Well, immediately, yes, there was a huge interest. There was Father Son Holy Spirit and Turning Point USA. I mean people were so enthusiastic about this, but is there really a revival? I was interviewed by Fox News on this question about the resurgence of our boys back into church and into conservatism. Well, okay, they are reacting to the hyper feminism that’s come from the universities primarily telling them the best thing they’ll ever be is Homer Simpson, that there is toxic masculinity and the bad patriarchy and they’ll never be anything and so forth.

And so what they’re doing is they’re reacting, but are they going to Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson or is it the wife beating Andrew Tate with his wife beater shirt or Nick Fuentes or is it the late Charlie Kirk? I think the jury is still out, but there is an unrest there and a spiritual openness with the boys, the girls, they’re growing ever more progressive and not by accident. The girls are out enrolling boys on the college campus at the undergrad, grad school, PhD and assistant professors. Within the next decade, they will be the majority of presidents and full professors completing the feminized demographic transformation of the university. That doesn’t even talk about feminist ideology, that’s just talking about the demographic change. And if more girls are going to college and grad school, that’s delaying marriage and family making and if they earn more money that will transform the whole marital situation. Eventually we’ll have to work out how we deal with this because the women, even in traditional Christian homes will inevitably be the breadwinners in American culture. So a whole lot is happening from the campus to the culture and we’re just now experiencing downstream what’s already been upstream.

Jamie Mitchell:

As I listened to the pundits and maybe more so the critics about Charlie Kirk, what’s interesting is you just hit on something and that is that Charlie really was putting forth a message about the need for men to be leaders in their home, to be good husbands, to be faithful fathers for wives and husbands to work together and have household order. And that message then starts to seep through because we know Corey Biblically speaking, that’s what Paul was addressing, this household order, that respect for authority, that there are some ordained social orders within our structure and boy, if that is ever being undermined, the whole social order, respect for authority and all of that is what exactly is being taught against in the secular campus. And as we know, most of it doesn’t it lead to all kinds of lawlessness. Isn’t that the net of all of that?

Corey Miller:

Absolutely. The death of God, if God is dead, everything’s permissible. If there’s no sync to fire of human life, there’s no sync to any of human life. And if the worldview that questions authority and so forth is there, then it’s going to end up being a chaos and a lawless society and look at where we’re at. I really think there are some good churches out there and some good pastors. But when we look at the landscape of the place where it’s supposed to be equipping believers to go off to the secular university to go off into the job market, to go off and make families, Arizona Christian University does a Christian worldview survey each year and in 2022 they said, how many Americans hold to a biblical worldview these days? And the answer was 6%. And these are things like what does it mean to be holding to a biblical worldview?

Well, God exists. Jesus is the only way the Bible’s true and all it teaches or affirms things that you would think that are common sense for any serious apprentice of Jesus, 6% in 2022, a year later in 23 it dropped down to 4% and for pastors 37%. But if you look at non-denominational and evangelical pastors, it gets better. It’s 51 to 57% apparently. We’re supposed to be excited about that. No wonder. And then because both parents are working either for ideological reasons, the careerism or economically for political reasons that we found ourselves in, they’re just tired and exhausted. And so they push ’em off to the youth pastor whose statistics are even worse. And so our churches are in a very bad position and our families are not doing well. And we have Marxists literally writing books called Abolish the Family. And even if the church were doing its job in all quarters, Jamie get this church attendance almost every other week is 39% of Americans, 30% every week, but 39% almost every week. But 18 to 24 year olds, 39% of them are enrolled in college. If you go to church every week, you get 52 sermons a year. But freshmen going to college get 60 sermons in their first month. The university is the most influential institution shaping civilization, including unfortunately, it’s shaping the church more than the church is shaping it.

Jamie Mitchell:

Hey, there have been many times in our history that someone was martyred and it ignited a fire in people’s hearts and we thank God for those moments, but day to day, as Corey has mentioned, we need the church showing up. When we finish up with Corey, we’re going to discuss should you send your Christian kid to a secular university and what can the church do to help a local secular university stay with us as we finish up this program here at Standard again today? Well, today has been enlightening and frightening as we have heard a frontline report regarding the ministry on the secular campus with Dr. Corey Miller. Corey, I know that there are probably listeners who are thinking themselves well after this program, why did I ever send my kid to secular university? Or maybe they’re now scrambling to see if they can get their kid into a Christian college, but we can’t abandon the secular university and that’s not our intent or what we’re advocating today. Can you provide our listener with some guidance? What do parents and students need to know about attending a secular university?

Corey Miller:

Yeah, I mean, where are we going to run to if we abandon it? We’ve been in the business of abandoning rather than reforming within for a long time. And the result of that is what are we going to start a new college with $10,000 endowment and an Atari computer compared to Harvard’s 52 billion endowment, which is more than half the country’s GDP for their individual countries? No, we’ve got to infiltrate these universities, but we have to realize even if parents going to say, well, we should just send ’em off to a Christian college, I can tell you on one hand the number of Christian colleges that have not been impacted by the second revolutionary spirit that I’ve been describing. That’s in my book One hand. You’ve got to prepare. You’ve got to understand what’s going on. Even if you say, I’m going to send them at least to a Christian high school and middle school.

My daughter is an elementary ed major at Purdue University, one of the more conservative secular of the universities in the country, and I ask her for her syllabus from each one of her classes every semester, and I can see it there. So suppose she goes off to a Christian high school or elementary school to teach next. She is being trained by the Marxism coming through the Colleges of Education. It’s coming then into our Christian schools. Now, fortunately, she has a father who’s a theologian and philosopher and smells this stuff out, but how many parents are equipped in that way? We have to realize the ideas that are circulating in our universities and we can’t abandon them. We need to infiltrate them and we need to be able to defend our own from further mission drift. I heard on in between our segments here, a little commercial where they said, train the child up in the way they should go.

And I complete that and say, and when they get older, they’ll get conscripted to work for the other side. Just like when Hitler went through Europe and he conscripted everyone to join his army. That’s what’s happening on these campuses and kids are coming back even from middle school and saying, mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, would you rather have a dead son or a living daughter? You choose, I’m transgender. And what do the parents do if you don’t know how to respond to this stuff? Look, parents, you pay for your kids to have food, shelter, clothing. What about their souls? We need to be attending to this stuff and there are ways to resource you and ministries like Ratio Christie trained to do that. One final illustration on this point, my friend James Torres, one of the top 10 chemists in the world, top 50 most influential scientists, I was with him two months ago in Houston.

He teaches at Rice University. He said that he used to get up at 5:30 AM every day and do devotions with his four kids every day, and he’s a top 10 science guy in chemistry. He said, but when four of my kids went off to the university, only two returned. One of them recently did. So there’s one that’s still outstanding. The universities are full of ideas that are subversive and if the parent doesn’t prepare and he didn’t understand the philosophy, it’s not just the science, it’s not just the Bible. Ratio Christi equips people with historical, philosophical and scientific reasons. You can equip against this stuff, but you need to know where to go and what to do.

Jamie Mitchell:

Corey, my heart is with the pastor on this and I can tell you that pastors have been woefully under equipping both their young people and parents to be able to handle this kind of thing. I mean, the truth Project came out a number of years ago from Focus on the Family. I think it was 15, 20 years ago, and I taught it to all of our senior high students, but their parents had to be in the room and I tried to move the needle. Give a word to pastors listening today, how can they be a little bit more intentional and proactive to help their families and their students to prepare for the secular campus?

Corey Miller:

Yeah, I’ve been a pastor and I know it’s hard work and you’ve got your work cut out for you, and a lot of pastors are tremendously discouraged. You can’t do it all. You can’t understand all ideas and so forth. This is why we need to network. We need to coalition build, and so I would encourage pastors just right here, if you go to dr corey miller.com, invite me on my book speaking tour over the next 18 to 24 months to come in and address your congregation or your men’s ministry or whatever. But you can go to our website too to that same angle and look at our booklets. Our booklets are fantastic. These things address everything from why does God allow evil to the reliability of the Bible to science and scripture all the way to race, class, sex, gender, ethnicity. There are over 60 booklets and they’re all written by Christian scholars in those fields and written at the 11th grade reading level, 25 pages each, and they’re digital or printable.

Moreover, you can get them all for free on PDF if you go to our website and just give us your email and we’ll send you our monthly propaganda newsletter, but you might really be interested in what we’re doing, but get your small groups reading this. Get your youth pastor reading this. Get the parents reading this stuff. You’ve got to equip and understand what these false ideas all are. Paul said to be aware of false philosophy, but you can’t be aware of false philosophy if you’re not first aware of what it is. We provide the way to help come alongside pastors and parents to equip for the ideas that are coming out of the university. You can no longer run from it. It’s coming into your churches, it’s coming into your families, and you can’t even go into your closets anymore because we have cell phones.

Jamie Mitchell:

Corey, just if a pastor would take some time both with his parents, but more so with the students, I fear that sometimes as churches get larger, the pastor gets further and further away from people like the young people in their church, but even a pastor going to his students and saying, listen, if you go off to college, you are going to hear this. And when you hear this perk up your ears, there’s value in doing that. We can see fruit, can’t we? If we would do some of that?

Corey Miller:

Yeah. That is the job of a pastor to equip God’s people for works of ministry. This morning I was leading my men’s Bible study, and after we finish a book of the Bible, then we’ll go through one of these Rosso Christie booklets, for example, because I want to train people not just what the Bible says, but I want to train them to engage their culture, right? This is what Paul did when he would go to the synagogues, he would break open the Bible because they already believed the Bible and they had a Judeo Christian viewpoint and he proved that Jesus is the Messiah, but we have shifted as a culture. We’re now more like, and we’ve shifted since the millennials, so Gen Z we’re long past that. Now. It’s like going to Acts chapter 17 in Mars Hill, and he didn’t bring the Bible with them there.

He met them on turf where they’re at. If you go do missions work in India, you study a little bit of Hinduism. If you go to Saudi Arabia, Islam, if you go to Utah, it’s Mormonism. If you’re going to be engaging with America, it’s coming from the second of the university or sending your kids there, why wouldn’t you do the same thing? So it’s not just Bible, it’s Christian thought related to these various things. Paul said, I become all things to all people that by all means I might save some. Did the Jew, I become a Jew, did the Greek, I become a Greek. We are telling you what the Greeks are and what they’re thinking right now. You need to understand it because that’s the cultural moment.

Jamie Mitchell:

Cory Miller, thank you. You’re a blessing. What a resource. Friends, get his book, get his information. Listen, we’re encouraging you to pray for your college. For the students there, they’re missionaries. They need courage. We need courageous Christian, young people and parents, and therefore, as I say at the end of all my programs, live and lead with courage today. We desperately need it.