St. Brendan's Podcast

Have you ever wondered what was going through our heads as we ramped up to the start of our Classical Christian school? What could have dared us to take the risk?  Maybe you find yourself in the same boat that we were, praying and planning to start your own school, weighing the risks and discussing the costs. Or, maybe you're just in need of some encouragement in this monumental task that we...

Can a Christian education thrive without aiming at our ultimate Christian purpose? Or, as a practical consideration that pushes the antithesis more concretely, is it possible for a non-Christian to provide their child with a complete Christian education? Here, as everywhere, definitions matter. As we apply the Parable of the Two Sons to our own day, we find that for Christian education to reach fu...

If challenged to defend it in your own words, what would you claim is the "goal" of a bona fide Christian education? What are you hoping this education will achieve for your children? Will it land them a high paying job? Will it secure a life of pleasure and ease? Will it produce a full-ride basketball scholarship? What will determine success or failure at the end of the day? In this epi...

Pastor Voddie Baucham was right when he warned us prophetically, "If you send your children to Caesar for their education, don't be surprised when they come back as Romans." Though, he was not foreseeing something unexpected or counter-intuitive. He did not have some secret gnosis. He was simply reading his Bible, then reading the room. Why do you think we've seen such rampant...

Do you believe this to be true? Must Christian education fly the Christian flag? Of course, we don't mean this literally. The fabric you see flapping in the wind won't keep the bad guys out. But it does serve as a metaphor, imagery that's meant to pull back the curtain and display our ultimate commitments. Like it or not, every education is flying some kind of flag. Every educationa...

When Paul uses the Greek word paideia in Ephesians 6:4, what did he mean? What is the paideia of the Lord? And how comprehensive was its scope? Well, it certainly wasn't minimalistic or truncated. God isn't only Lord of our hearts, or of STEM, or of the kitchen. He is King of kings and Lord of lords. In Christ are hidden ALL the treasures of knowledge and wisdom. Christian education, the...

We're often deceived into thinking that if we just teach our kids the "right" answers, we will have done our job. Check. Complete. But instruction on the particulars is simply not enough. Otherwise, what happens once your kids move out and confront a question for which they hadn't studied? Can you really say they are well prepared for a robust Christian life? This is why any ed...

How must we Christians educate our children amidst an idolatrous culture? Christianly , of course, but what does this really mean? Has that adjective become a useless platitude? It doesn't have to be. Our latest episode for the St. Brendan's Podcast is the first installment as we try to answer the question, "What is a Christian education?" Principle #1 registers loud and clear:...

Could the very state-run school system designed to educate our children be subverting the core values that Christian families hold dear? Kevin Love, headmaster at St. Brendan's Classical Christian Academy in Ogden, UT, helps navigate the treacherous waters of public school indoctrination, where the undertow of secular humanism and relativism threatens to pull our youth away from Christian bel...