Here is the school's mission statement:  

Through its commitment to the truths of Christianity and a biblical worldview, The King's College seeks to prepare students for careers in which they help to shape and eventually to lead strategic public and private institutions: to improve government, commerce, law, the media, civil society, education, the arts, and the church.

Here are a few excerpts from the long, and rather breezy Washington Post profile of The King's College:

Nearly all of the students and faculty are Republicans, against abortion rights, wary of gay rights. They'll say nice things about Mike Huckabee, because he has popularized the non-threatening face of evangelical Christians, but many find his economic populism -- his emphasis on the plight of poor families, his attacks on the alleged greed of corporations -- a little off-putting. There's also widespread affection for President Bush, which is something you just don't see on any other New York City campus.

"I was carrying a placard from a Bush rally once," says Humphries, who is student body president. "And a woman in my building said, 'You're a college student?' And I said yes. And she said, 'In New York?' I said yes. 'And you're for Bush.' And I said yes. And she said, 'So you do exist!' "

New York City, according to Olasky and the rest of the King's elders, is the perfect place to teach the art of civilized debate. They believe a mistake was made a century ago when evangelicals began to leave urban centers, sequestering themselves in the suburbs and beyond, ceding cities to the forces of sin. The King's choice of location is meant to prove a point: that the faithful do not need a moat between themselves and pop culture.

The King's style of "new Christian urbanism," as Olasky calls it, frowns on hard-sell proselytizing. But students at the King's have been known to strike up conversations in the city with strangers, hoping at minimum to change their mind about evangelicals. The most outgoing and nerviest is David Lapp, who takes semi-regular field trips to the campus of New York University and approaches people with lines like "Do you want to discuss big ideas?" or "What do you think is the good life?"

"I see this place as a meeting ground," says Lapp, who was home-schooled in Lancaster County, Pa., a.k.a. Amish country. "The people I meet are very detached from Christian America; they're not sure what's happening out there in the heartland. Just talking, I realize that New Yorkers aren't as crazy as I was always told they are, and they can learn that evangelicals aren't as crazy as Pat Robertson makes us seem."  

The King's College is one of many little intellectual boot camps for the religious right, outposts for future influence, and perfect examples of how wrong faddish proclamations about the death, decline or irrelevance of the religious right can be.