The Progressive Miseducation of America:

Confronting the Cultural Revolution

from the Classroom to Your Community

The Age of Paradise; The Age of Division;

The Age of Utopia; The Age of Nihilism

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self:

Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism,

and the Road to Sexual Revolution

Choice of 2

Choice of 3

Choice of 4

The Privileged Planet (20th Anniversary Edition-2024):

How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery

Has God Spoken?

The Progressive Miseducation of America: Confronting the Cultural Revolution from the Classroom to Your Community

by Corey Miller

Our culture is undergoing radical change. We see evidence of this cultural revolution all around us as values, norms, language, and laws all shift beneath our feet. But this revolution didn’t come out of nowhere—and it isn’t too late to stop it.

The Progressive Miseducation of America is an eye-opening look at how our universities have polluted the cultural landscape we live in today—and how Christians can take strategic actions in response. As a dedicated student of culture and revolutionary history, Corey Miller brings clear insights and actionable ideas to help you

• understand and defend against ideas subversive to the Christian faith
• further the Christian life and worldview through intentional methods of being salt and light
• inspire change not only within your family and church, but in the broader culture

Sobering yet optimistic, this bold and inspiring resource will equip you to take concrete steps in making the largest and most sustainable difference in both your community and the world!

The Age of Paradise; The Age of Division; The Age of Utopia; The Age of Nihilism (4 Volumes on Ages of Christendom)

by John Strickland 

The first volume, The Age of Paradise: Christendom from Pentecost to the First Millennium (2019), tells the history of the West when it was still joined closely to the East—that is, to the culture of the early Church and Byzantium. At the heart of this story is the early Church’s “culture of paradise,” an experience of the world in which the kingdom of heaven was tangible and familiar. Drawing not only on worship and theology but statecraft and the arts, The Age of Paradise reveals the remarkably affirmative character Western culture once had under the influence of Christianity.

The second book, The Age of Division: Christendom from the Great Schism to the Protestant Reformation (2020), continues the story beyond the fateful separation of West from East—the Great Schism of 1054—and follows efforts by the papacy to impose a thorough-going reform of Western Christendom. In addition to improving the spiritual quality of church life, the Papal Reformation also unleashed other forces including the crusades and, more indirectly but tragically, a penitential piety that slowly eroded the place of paradise within Western culture. The sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation continued the process of transformation begun by the papacy in the eleventh century and, in very significant ways, brought it to an end.

The third book, The Age of Utopia: Christendom from the Renaissance to the Russian Revolution (2021), leads the reader through six of the West’s most creative centuries, passing beneath ceilings painted by Michelangelo into libraries frequented by Karl Marx. It explains how, between the Italian Renaissance and the Russian Revolution, secular humanism displaced traditional Christianity to become the source of modern culture. The result was some of the most illustrious music, science, philosophy, and literature ever produced. But the cultural “reorientation” from paradise to utopia—from an experience of the kingdom of heaven to one bound exclusively by this world—all but eradicated the traditional culture of the West, leaving it at the beginning of the twentieth century without roots in anything transcendent.

The final volume, The Age of Nihilism: Christendom from the Great War to the Culture Wars (2022), shows how the “specter of nihilism” appeared in the West at the end of the nineteenth century, the very moment secularism seemed triumphant. A self-styled “antichrist” named Friedrich Nietzsche and an obstinately Christian Fyodor Dostoevsky both offered ominous visions of what the West would become if “God is dead” and any moral act thus becomes permissible. Though total warfare seemed to confirm such predictions, a project arose in its wake to rebuild utopia with secular ideologies that, in the case of Nazism, opened the abyss even further. Communism and liberalism were left after the Second World War to compete for ultimate preeminence, but both would ultimately fail to replace the lost transcendence of the West’s deep first-millennium past. As the twenty-first century opened, utopia was as elusive as ever, and a culture of paradise once again beckoned to a civilization exhausted by centuries of secularism.

The history of Christendom is a long story, and it requires four distinct volumes to tell it. Each book stands alone and can be read without the others, though the effect of reading them in sequence will be greater.

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

by Carl R. Trueman

The sexual revolution is one manifestation of the larger revolution of the self

“The origins of this book lie in my curiosity about how and why a particular statement has come to be regarded as coherent and meaningful: ‘I am a woman trapped in a man’s body.’….The sexual revolution is as much a symptom as it is a cause of the culture that now surrounds us….The sexual revolution is simply one manifestation of the larger revolution of the self that has taken place in the West. And it is only as we come to understand that wider context that we can truly understand the dynamics of the sexual politics that now dominate our culture.”

“Freud provided a compelling rationale for putting sex and sexual expression at the center of human existence and all its related cultural and political components in a way that now grips the social imaginary of the Western world….Thinking of human beings as fundamentally defined by their sexual desire is now virtually intuitive for us all.”

“Sexual iconoclasm…has been baked into Western culture over the last 300 years. The modern West is simply bearing the bitter fruits of a rotten tree.”

Freedom of speech becomes the problem, not the solution

“While earlier generations might have seen damage to body or property as the most serious categories of crime, a highly psychologized era will accord increasing importance to words as means of oppression….Once harm and oppression are regarded as being primarily psychological categories, freedom of speech then becomes part of the problem, not the solution, because words become potential weapons.”

Ethics becomes a function of feeling

In our highly psychologized modern society, “the only moral criterion that can be applied to behavior is whether it conduces to the feeling of well-being in the individuals concerned. Ethics, therefore, becomes a function of feeling.”

On Wealth and Poverty by St. John Chrysostom. Foreword by Hank Hanegraaff

“In this literary pearl, St. John Chrysostom takes Christ’s famed parable of the rich man and Lazarus and attempts to plumb its immeasurable riches—knowing all the while that ‘no one will be able to empty all its wealth. Such is the nature of this abundance: the deeper you dig, the more divine thoughts will gush forth, for it is a never-failing spring.’” —Hank Hanegraaff, from the Foreword