Patriotism

Erik Metaxas has immigrant parents, his dad from Greece and his mom from Germany. They raised him to love America. "When my parents passed the Statue of Liberty in the ships that carried them to our shores, they didn’t roll their eyes — they were deeply moved."

But his education taught contempt for America, and he "drank this anti-American Kool-Aid." As a young husband and dad, things changed for Erik, and--with his own mom and dad--he loves his country today. He says his parents "understood that this was the real thing, a noble experiment in liberty that was worthy of celebrating and, if at all possible, joining."

"If we do not begin to understand and appreciate what made us great — including the noble and flawed heroes of our history, who risked life and limb so that we could have liberties unlike any before in the history of the world —  we can never again be great. We can never again be the “shining city on a hill” that caused millions to want to be like us."