The Opening of the American Mind: The Christian Educator's Involvement in Public Education

Two kingdoms theology has impacted the church and guided individual believers in various aspects of their personal lives. Religious leaders, ministers, and Christians founded the American education system. The public education system of America now serves a multicultural population of students. The works of Charles Taylor and Allan Bloom highlight changes that have occurred in the 21st century and have impacted education. The misapplication of a two kingdoms theology perspective may have caused Christian educators to leave the secular classrooms. Christian educators as redemptive citizens may serve in the secular, multicultural classrooms across America to provide unintrusive education for all the students that the American secular schools serve. The Christian educator may provide beneficial instruction in natural sciences, humanities, and literature in the secular classroom by taking small steps that will encourage the students to search for answers that the secular curriculum leaves unanswered.