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The WallBuilders Show

Faith's Intersection with Education and History

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A Christian professor working in the liberal stronghold of academia sparks a fascinating conversation about whether American universities can ever return to their historical Christian foundations. David Barton offers a powerful perspective rooted in historical patterns, showing how institutional transformation—from the early Christian church to the Protestant Reformation—has always been a multi-generational effort requiring patience and strategic discipleship. Drawing from these historical e...

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0:00.0

This is the intersection of faith and culture. It's The Wall Builders show, taken on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective.

0:14.5

Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton. It's Foundations of Freedom Thursday. So we look forward to answering as many-year questions as we can. It really sparks good discussion here on the Wall Builders program when you send in your questions. So send those in to radio at wallbuilders.com. Radio at Wallbuilders.com. And then for those of you just maybe tune it in for the first time, if you want to learn more about us, you can go to wallboulders.com and, of course,

0:37.6

peruse the website there. See a lot of the cool stuff we've got available to you, everything from

0:42.1

swag for the 250th birthday of the country and rebuilding and all of those things to constitution classes

0:48.2

and all kinds of things you can learn. So check all that out at wallbuilders.com and then our radio

0:53.1

program at wallbuilders.com. then our radio program at wallbuilders.

0:55.1

Dot show.

0:58.2

All right, David Tim, got a lot of great questions today.

1:03.5

The first ones from a 29-year-old homeschool graduate who said, I now work as a professor.

1:10.2

At a large public research university, I have a firsthand view of the deep flaws of American academia, driven in large part by the liberal

1:12.2

ideologies of the faculty. I know that God has placed me here for a reason, though I certainly

1:16.5

stand alone in my field. I've heard about the biblical grounding of early American universities,

1:20.8

but it feels at times like the modern higher education system has become too far gone to fix,

1:26.6

especially since it is powered by such an overwhelmingly

1:29.5

liberal faculty base. Is it possible to reform American academia to its historical and biblical moorings

1:37.2

as established by our founding fathers? What can I do as one person to help facilitate this change?

1:43.2

Thank you so much for all the work you do to

1:45.0

spread truth. Listening to your program every day helps me find sanity amid the world I work in.

1:51.3

And I'd give you your name, but she has to remain anonymous, which I totally understand,

1:55.2

considering the retribution on college campuses if you are seen as a conservative, or certainly

2:00.4

if you're seen as a Christian, a biblical Christian, at that. So really interesting question today, guys, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, you know, did these universities start off as Christian institutions? And then, two, can they be saved? Can the academia, you know,

2:19.4

what would be the remaking of academia that she could participate in? Go for it, guys. Where do you

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