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For several years, every morning, a group of trusting Christians have zoomed to pray together. Their prayers have undergirded many ministries, including the “Bless India Project” (BIP). About 20 months ago, their prayers triggered a 24/7 chain Zoom prayer.

Does God answer prayers?

The BIP is ready to launch Truthpedia-India in a conference called Reimagining Education. It will be held at Madras Christian College, Chennai (TN) from Aug 14-16, 2026. See some details at: https://conf2026.truthpedia.ai/

This conference will trigger a movement to equip God’s people to make India a godly nation:
(1) The Church will train godly leaders by offering a hybrid “MA in Nation-Building.”
(2) It will train teachers with a Pastoral Heart called Academic Pastors (APs)
(3) These APs will be given free high school curriculum to build up the next generation.

The two-year MA in Nation-Building will be offered in fifty or so campuses in Churches, seminaries and educational institutions. Each campus will have 20 or so motivated students. The online course will be based on the UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) curriculum. Pastors and seminary professors will mentor students, while subject matter experts will join online sessions.

After about 18 months of studies, students will appear in a UPSC-style examination. About two hundred of the highest-scoring students will then receive six months of complimentary residential coaching, preparing them specifically to appear in UPSC prelims, mains and interviews.

The two-year BEd degree that trains teachers with a pastoral heart will be in the context of homeschooling, Church-based educational cooperatives or educational institutions.

Since 2014, governments have closed down about 93,200 schools. The BEd program will enable the church to educate the next generation by establishing 100,000 or more educational co-ops. To meet this challenge, the Indian church needs to train 500,000 motivated and trained Academic Pastors (teachers). They need to be provided a high-quality online high school curriculum.

The REIMAGINING EDUCATION conference will also create a Think Tank to start an AI-driven Knowledge Bank Truthpedia. This Think-Tank will partner with the professors and scholars from around the world.

After the conference, from August 17 to 23, 2026, the BIP will organize a Creative Retreat for 20-30 researchers, writers and videographers. They will create educational curricula and documentaries.

If you are not able to participate yourself, please sponsor pastors, leaders and creative talent from poorer churches.

-On Behalf of Reimagining Education Conference
Vishal Mangalwadi

Conference Coordinator:
Email: 2026educonf@truthpedia.ai
WhatsApp: +91 91368 98029
Register Here: https://forms.gle/svS88nmhgHhU9Lkc6

Background: 

History bears witness to Christianity’s transformative influence, in concert with the wisdom of the Bible, in molding the very essence of the modern world, reflecting all that we still hold in high esteem today. This fact has been attested by many historians and is the thesis of the two books by Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi, “This Book Changed Everything – Volume I: The Bible’s Amazing Impact on Our World (2019),” and “The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization (2011).” 

Today, we are witnessing the rapid decline of a once great Western Civilization that has been ravaged by the consequences of rejecting the truth of God’s revelation. It has become necessary for a Third Education Revolution.

As Dr. Mangalwadi writes in the introductory chapter “Towards A Third Education Revolution” of the book “The Third Education Revolution” (Sought After Media, 2021), authored collectively by 30 diverse contributors,

“For a thousand years the church has sent students to the universities.
It is time for universities to send students to the local church.”

Where at one time, Truth (Veritas in Latin) was the soul of the Western university, we now have universities that are swamps breeding corrupt politicians, civil servants, businessmen, journalists and judges. In turn, the schools are raising an amoral citizenry leading to societal decay, violence and corruption in every sphere of human existence. The Enlightenment’s pledges of swift advancement precipitated an era of intellectual and moral “endarkenment,” hastening the transition of the postmodern world into the era of Post-Truth.

Dr. Mangalwadi continues:

“Secularization forced the university to give up the hope of finding truth because it precluded the supernatural, spiritual dimension of reality. Language and logic, imagination and intuition are matters of the spirit. Pragmatism has enslaved universities to agnosticism. You are required to affirm that your beliefs are only relatively true; your ethics are adjustable; no one should trust you; your media spins stories 24/7 to manipulate your audience.”

Europe’s first education revolution was inaugurated by Charlemagne, the Frankish king and later Roman emperor, who heralded a transformative era beginning in 800 AD. Under Charlemagne’s reign, a profound metamorphosis occurred in the understanding of faith, influenced by the teachings of English clergyman Alcuin of York, who emphasized the voluntary nature of religious belief, and therefore required the education of all people to enable them to make a moral decision. An epoch of profound intellectual growth ensued, known as the Carolingian Renaissance, which spurred unparalleled advancements in scholarship, literature, and the arts.

Charlemagne’s educational initiatives, whose seeds were sown by his advisor Alcuin, culminated in the establishment two centuries later of the world’s first university at Bologna in Italy (1088) followed soon by many renowned universities such as Oxford in England (1096).

A second education revolution became necessary when the priests and scholars suppressed the truths revealed by the Bible and pagan rationalism and myths began to percolate into the ethos of Christendom through the Scholastic movement.

“Europe’s Second Education Revolution commenced five hundred years ago in 1520 with Martin Luther’s publication of an Open Letter to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Reform of the Christian Estate.”

While Roman Catholic institutions had historically educated priests, Luther argued for universal education, asserting that every child of God, as His holy priest, required schooling to fulfill their divine calling. This shift, rooted in the biblical concept of the kingship of all believers, gradually transformed feudal Europe. Luther’s advocacy for liberty, grounded in biblical principles, laid the groundwork for the West’s pursuit of freedom, which engendered the American Declaration of Independence in 1776, which acknowledged the Creator’s endowment of inalienable rights to every human being.

Much of this history has been forgotten or distorted by post-truth historians. Despite the enduring benefits of the Bible’s impact on Western Civilization, the pervasive societal decay fueled by postmodernism mandates a decisive and urgent response from the body of Christ.

The first step in empowering the ecclesia church to initiate the third education revolution is the creation of a new online Christian encyclopedia.

The vision of launching an online Christian encyclopedia was initially introduced by Dr. Ashish Alexander within a chapter titled, “Collegepedia: A New Knowledge Ecosystem“, of the book “The Third Education Revolution“.

Dr. Alexander wrote,
“The idea for this online encyclopedia project stems from the perennial Christian quest for the integration of all knowledge, especially in the face of our fragmented, postmodern world. In the 17th century, European scholars such as Francis Bacon, Johann Alsted and perhaps most importantly John Amos Comenius worked towards discovering and employing a rigorous scientific method of collecting and classifying all knowledge, and then making it available to all people under one umbrella (or between two covers). This gave rise to the great “encyclopedia movement” in the West, which culminated in the magisterial Encyclopedia Britannica of Scotland. In our times, Wikipedia was the great disruption; an admirable and magnificent achievement. However, since it does not have the Christian concern of glorifying God but a rather vague concept of “neutrality” as its foundational principle, it ends up pandering to academic fads and political correctness…

This effort to build a fresh online encyclopedia is thus to continue the godly concern for integration of all knowledge…

A renaissance of the “Christian mind” must offer the “light of life” (John 8:32) to a generation that cannot distinguish true from false, right from wrong, good from evil, or wisdom from folly. Our lost generation desperately needs a reliable bank of knowledge infused not with ideology, academic fads, or political correctness, but with wisdom, knowledge, and understanding that cultivate the “fear of the Lord,” that is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 1:7) Education is dangerous that chooses not to graduate wise students. The proposed knowledge-bank would make high-quality information freely available. It will become a new ecosystem of learning, which helps students to synthesize all knowledge—sacred or secular— to uplift the mind, spirit and character. That is why the Third Education Revolution aims to create an online encyclopedia. It will cater to the practical educational and information needs so that students build their world-and-life view of everything.”

Currently, numerous online encyclopedias exist, with Wikipedia being the most prominent, alongside Encyclopedia Britannica, various Christian online wikis, and multiple other religious and secular wikis. Our approach avoids redundant efforts and unnecessary technological reinventions by leveraging the strengths of established platforms while innovating where beneficial, for our objectives. Integration with existing wikis for access to valuable resources and literature is also considered within our strategy.

The main idea now is to mobilize God-fearing and godly scholars all over the globe to put their heads together and create a new knowledge ecosystem. We hope that this encyclopedia will also become a go-to source for all serious students across the world, at all levels of scholarship.

Under the guidance of Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi and a host of other Christian scholars, our team endeavors to fulfill the vision of John Amos Comenius by establishing Truthpedia as a student-friendly repository of knowledge and wisdom. Through meticulous planning and collaboration, we aim to launch this transformative platform in August 2026 at a National Conference in Chennai, India.