Gene Edward Veith is provost emeritus at Patrick Henry College, where he also served as professor of literature and interim president. He is also the author of over 25 books on the topics of Christianity and culture, literature, the arts, classical education, vocation, and theology.
Posts by Gene Edward Veith
October 15, 2025
God at Work: Loving God and Neighbor Through the Book of Exodus, a new book from Anthony Bradley, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Acton Institute and professor of interdisciplinary and theological studies at Kuyper College, is not another contribution to the Faith and Work movement.
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August 27, 2025
“Contrary to what many influential voices in our culture, politics, and even our institutions of higher education would have you believe, the truth about even the most controversial matters can be objectively known, and cannot be altered by one’s subjective feelings or ‘lived experiences.’”
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May 15, 2025
“The line between our work lives and personal lives has blurred,” observes the authors of
Religion in a Changing Workplace. “Religious employees in the United States—in all types of occupations and sectors—feel more comfortable expressing their faith in the workplace and less comfortable leaving their faith behind when they go to work.”
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March 11, 2025
The early Protestant Reformers famously disbelieved in the freedom of the will. And yet they gave us a legacy of freedom. This paradox is at the heart of Brad Littlejohn’s
Called to Freedom: Retrieving Christian Liberty in an Age of License.
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May 23, 2024
This is the 90th anniversary of the Barmen Declaration, the statement of faith issued by the “Confessing Church” of Germany, the Christians who opposed the takeover of the Protestant churches by Nazi theologians.
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March 13, 2024
“Humans are not well-suited to radical immanence.” After all, those who believe only in what they can see are still made in the image of God and possess a supernatural purpose even when they reject any kind of transcendent reality.
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September 13, 2023
In the latter half of the 19th century, the poet Matthew Arnold, on his honeymoon, was walking with his bride along the rocky shoreline of the English Channel as the tide was going out.
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February 28, 2023
When the Gestapo was uncovering a left-wing conspiracy to overthrow Hitler, they called it “the Red Orchestra.” But they began to realize that there was another resistance movement of far greater scope, reach, and effectiveness.
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