Dr. John W. Robbins

I went to the funeral of Dr. John W. Robbins today. I got to know him when we travelled to Williamsburg with my son's class. Every night, he did a devotional. He was also very knowledgable about history.

Dr. John W. Robbins received his Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from John Hopkins University. He was the author of several books. Since he had cancer, he had time to plan his own funeral, and those of us that attended were given a gift of one of his books: Christ & Civilization.

"Christ and Civilization gives a history from before Christ through the current time. He explains the origin of Western civilization ... in the system of ideas found in the Bible: Christianity. It was the Christian Reformation of the sixteenth century that created Western civilization, and Western civilization is collapsing because Christianity is disappearing in the West."

He will be remembered.