Christian education

concept · 11 episodes

202and Aristotle Makes Three 12 Aug 2024 41:54¶ 119 “The current theme that I’m always harping on is that this is a man who we hold up to Christian graduate students as an…” 42:14¶ 120 “There are two things going on here. Those teachers who propose to do that have two problems. First, apparently either they cannot read and…” 42:55¶ 122 “Do you understand what it means to call God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth? Do you understand what it means to…”

200Building a City State out of Plato 29 Jul 2024 42:49¶ 149 “Can we define smart, please? The Bible says it begins with the fear of God, and says it involves keeping his commandments, and there’s…” 43:31¶ 150 “You want to be an intelligent Christian? Then you need to study Plato, Aristotle, Socrates. They will tell you about the good, the true,…” 44:44¶ 155 “First of all, most of our clientele doesn’t come from that sector of the church anyhow. We assign the Bible, strangely enough. But yes,…”

161The Day of Small Things 17 Apr 2023 33:52¶ 107 “It’s a small analogy but speaking for Christian education generally, what you want are a couple really good teachers who are well-educated and know…” 34:28¶ 108 “Advertising for customers doesn’t always work that well, because sometimes you get them, which is to say you get customers, not people dedicated to…” 31:35¶ 101 “This is a complete tangent, almost complete, but it bears a little bit. As theater director for our school, we the school – and…”

160First Things First 3 Apr 2023 4:26¶ 23 “Yeah, that. Or it’s, “I’m going to start a school, a university, some kind of Christian educational think tank, and we’re going publish books…” 4:49¶ 24 “That is so thoroughly Lockean and pagan. I mean that’s the thinking of the public school system. Just because we do it in the…” 5:17¶ 25 “So we look at these things and they do have their time, they do have their place, but when we start hanging the future…”

146To Gain the Whole World 28 Nov 2022 39:14¶ 119 “And then there are those things where, “We have adopted this policy because we believe it is favorable to the kingdom of God, but…” 39:51¶ 120 “For instance, in our school as we’ve gotten a new clientele we’ve had to change some of what we do, and that’s okay. We’re…” 40:13¶ 121 “But for a foreign power – foreign to our jurisdiction, that is – someone who does not have legitimate authority comes to us and…”

79The Promised Land 16 Aug 2021 38:39¶ 135 “Christian education is first and foremost education of the gospel. Sometimes you let it come up naturally, because it does, and sometimes you say,…” 37:52¶ 130 “There was a lady who applied for teaching at our school, and our headmaster is very wise, particularly in this area. One of his…” 38:17¶ 131 “And this woman says, “Why would I have to do that? All of these children go to church, right?”

67The Metaphysics of Christian Education 11 Apr 2021 5:51¶ 19 “This teaching of God’s words is not a haphazard affair. It’s not something you do on Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights or at devotions…” 6:39¶ 23 “Yes, we know there are exceptions, sure, but we’re not talking about exceptions, we’re talking about the general plan. Humanity as a whole is…” 14:02¶ 41 “To what degree are we using the words discipleship and education interchangeably? And how far are those equal things? Someone could say, “Well yeah,…”

64The Next Generation 21 Mar 2021 26:48¶ 72 “This is the kind of thing we want to impart to the next generation. We want to give them a well-rounded education that speaks…” 36:13¶ 97 “We’re talking grammar. We’re talking foreign language. We’re talking literature. We’re talking, “Read the text. What does it say?” It’s teaching them to do…” 42:56¶ 114 “Yeah, before that it was jazz and blues and all the rest. Rarely have we stopped and tried to understand it, which is a…”

50Bonus - Panel Discussion on Christian Education 13 Dec 2020 10:27¶ 34 “They all tend to say the same thing. Many of them come in junior high or high school because they’re fine with their kids…” 14:03¶ 46 “When I went back into the classroom, I understood a couple things. One, I’d had Christian education modeled for me by someone who understood…” 56:52¶ 166 “Obviously, my perspective is colored by the fact that this is something I’m personally engaged in, but still I don’t understand how at this…”

27Prince of Egypt (part 1): The Battle Begins 5 Jul 2020 31:13¶ 86 “My ministry now for nearly 40 years has been trying to prepare young people at that level, and for the last 25 years preparing…” 21:33¶ 64 “No, no, actually I’m saying the opposite. I’m saying my parents recognized that my education needed to come from a consistent worldview, basically. I…” 22:12¶ 65 “A lot of it had to do with being placed in the right kind of circumstance. I think I’m better for it, at least…”

1Oneness 5 Jan 2020 8:24¶ 28 “Let me tirade about Christian education for a second. It is very easy for Christian schoolteachers to get this fixed idea of what the…” 9:02¶ 29 “If Christian school teachers should be anything, we should be people who are alive to the great fullness that’s God and not limit ourselves…” 2:01¶ 8 “The idea of education pre-supposes some kind of unity. No unity, nothing to pull the pieces together. It would be easy enough to jump…”