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• A biblically based worldview is capable of affirming the best insights of secular philosophies without ever falling into reductionism.

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• The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate.

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

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• Christianity is the key that fits the lock of the universe.

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• All of science is largely formalized common sense.

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• Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

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• The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.

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• Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

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• No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

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• 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.

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• Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal – ‘translatable’ into any cultural idiom.

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• Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

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• Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

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• 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.

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• Artists are often the barometers of society.

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• A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

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• Redemption is as comprehensive as creation or fall.

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• Morality is always derivative. It stems from one’s worldview.

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• Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day.

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Nancy Pearcey (19)

Birth:	1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

About

Nancy Randolph Pearcey is an American evangelical author on the Christian worldview. Pearcey earned a BA from Iowa State University and an MA in Biblical Studies from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. She also did additional non-degree study in philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, Canada.

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