Kent Ingle used a May 1 Newsmax column to fret that right-wing Christian parents may not have enough options to ensure that their children are being properly indoctrinated in college:
May 1, 2025, is here.
Nationally, families are making one of the most significant decisions in a young person’s life — choosing a college.
However, for Christian families, this decision is about far more than academics, campus life, or career paths.
It’s about faith, values, and preparing students to stand firm in a world often challenging biblical truth.
As students prepare to enter the next chapter of their lives, many Christian parents are wrestling with a difficult reality: most universities today do not reflect the values their children were raised with.
In fact, many institutions have become places where biblical truth is not just ignored — it’s often openly challenged.
From classrooms to dormitory life, many institutions have become places of woke indoctrination: faith is mocked, truth is relative, students are pressured to conform to progressive ideologies.
Rather than encouraging students to deepen their faith, these environments promote beliefs contradicting Christian convictions.
Ingle didn’t explain why a student’s beliefs should never be challenged — indeed, college is when should be exposed to a wide variety of beliefs. He also doesn’t explain why only the parents should have a say where a student attends college. Instead, he served up some propagandistic rah-rah:
College lasts four years, but the influence lasts a lifetime. Don’t just chase prestige or programs. Choose the place that will help you grow in your calling, strengthen your convictions, and prepare you to lead with truth in a world in desperate need of it.
Your future isn’t just about a degree — it’s about who you become in the process.
Where you go matters — but who you become matters even more.
Ingle’s bio states that he is “the president of Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida, one of the fastest growing private universities in America,” so he’s a little biased on that sort of thing.
Ingle’s June 13 column was an ode to fathers, though his first example was perhaps not the best:
Men like George Washington, John Adams, and James Madison were more than architects of democracy, they were spiritual and moral leaders, deeply committed to the responsibilities of family, faith, and civic duty.
Washington himself, who had no biological children, helped raise the children of his wife Martha. The “Father of Our Country” is regarded as such, not just for what he built, but for how he led: with restraint, courage, and conviction.
We need that sort of fatherhood now more than ever.
Ingle then went into lecture mode:
We live in a time when many cultural voices seek to redefine manhood or dismiss the role of fathers completely. Masculinity is often mocked (the “toxic male”), strength is misunderstood, and responsibility shrugged off.
But the truth remains unchanged: when fathers are present and faithful, families flourish.
When families flourish, so does this nation.
[…]Turning to Scripture, it says plainly, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6).
Fathers who take that charge seriously aren’t just raising good kids, they’re shaping souls. They’re building character, courage, and conviction that will carry into the next generation.
And that’s not just good parenting.
That’s nation-building.
- When fathers model integrity, they create homes where truth matters.
- When they show compassion, they raise children who care deeply.
- When they stand firm in their faith, they give the next generation something unshakable to stand on.
By leading their families like this, the faithful fathers of America carry on the legacy of service that our Founders exemplified.
No comment, of course, on how the current president fails to measure up on those fatherhood yardsticks.