Antidotes to Ideology: Art and Faith

Antidotes to Ideology: Art and Faith
"In God We Trust" first appeared on the obverse side of the two-cent piece in 1864. Public Domain
Jeff Minick
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“More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: ‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened,’” said Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1983 when he accepted the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

Nearly a century has now passed since Solzhenitsyn’s childhood, and here in America many have not only forgotten God but also, over the years, some have worked to abolish altogether any hint of Divine Providence from the public square.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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