John Renick:  

Life After graduating from high school, I worked during the summer for U.S.A. Magazine in NYC, an elite journal focussed on the work of the UN. While there I got acquainted with Bill Buckley, whose work I had admired for several years. I had become a born-again Christian in 1958, esp. thru the influence of my brother Jim, who had come to faith at Princeton. I studied history, gov't, and philosophy at William & Mary in Va., and also studied a lot of Bible and theology on my own. I helped start InterVarsity there, which is thriving greatly. I met my wife Linda in that group. We have been married for forty-five years. I earned a Master of Divinity at Grace Seminary in Indiana, and a Master in Church History at Trinity Int'l Univ. in Illinois, taught history and humanities at North Chicago Community H.S. until 1980. During that period I got to know and spend time with Russell Kirk and Thomas Molnar, great conservative writers. In 1980, our family (now with three sons) moved to South FL. I taught gov't, hist., and Bible for seven yrs. at Westminster Academy in Ft. Lauderdale and became an ass't minister under Pastor D. James Kennedy at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. From 1987-1994 I did doctoral work in gov't at the Univ. of FL, became a librarian and worked in Reference in the Main Library there. I was national chairman of the First Amendment Coalition, a campus anti-political- correctness movement. I worked for two years for US Congressman Dr. Dave Weldon of Melbourne, and then worked in county and municipal gov't in the Gainesville area. We moved to central FL in 1999, and I have taught here in high schools and part-time in two colleges (history, gov't, and philosophy). I just retired from my final and best teaching position, teaching Bible, history, government, and economics in an excellent Chri...Expand for more