At Emmanuel Christian School, we believe that the resurrection of Jesus Christ changes everything including how we ought to educate our children!

The famous English writer, G. K. Chesterton, argued this very point in his great apologetical work, The Everlasting Man. Chesterton who was greatly disturbed by the teachings of his day, specifically those of H.G. Wells who insisted that man was merely an animal, wrote his book as a rebuttal to show that this kind of secular thinking was dead and should not be tolerated any longer in light of the empty tomb of Christ. Chesterton believed that the resurrection had brought about a new creation and with it a new understanding of the world.

“On the third day, the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth.”

Unfortunately, many Christian parents today, like those friends of Christ, fail to fully realize the new wonder and embrace the new creation that Christ has secured for them by the power of His resurrection. Perhaps nowhere is this more clearly seen than in how they chose to educate their children. Rather than educate their children in light of the empty tomb of Christ, they continue to give them over to the secularists of our own day who like H.G. Wells continue to entice them with dead ideas that are antithetical to Christianity.

The reality is that education is a religious endeavor for every student and as Douglas Wilson notes if you make that education godless, it stands to reason that the life of the student will be made godless as well.

For a better understanding of what public education looks like in America, consider watching the informative documentary, The Miseducation of America below. You can watch it for free using promo code: CLASSROOM. It is our hope that after giving serious thought to the educational system of our day that you would come to agree with best selling author and senior editor at The American Conservative, Rod Dreher, that:

Because public education in America is neither rightly ordered, nor religiously informed, nor able to form an imagination devoted to Western civilization, it is time for all Christians to pull their children out of the public school system. If those reasons weren’t already enough, the corrosive effect of the toxic peer culture found among students in many public schools (as well as private ones) would confirm the case…Plus, public schools by nature are on the front lines of the latest and worst trends in popular culture.