St. Brendan's Podcast

St. Brendan's Founder's Episode: What Were We Thinking??

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

Rejecting Hypocrisy: Why Christian Education Must Maintain a Higher Purpose

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 po

Redefining Success: The True Goal of Christian Education

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

Discipling Little Ones? Christian Education Requires Christian Teachers

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

Symbols of Sovereignty: Christian Education Flies The Christian Flag

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 wo

The Paideia of the Lord: An All-Encompassing Education for Your Child

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&a

Neutrality Is a Myth: Education Must Impart a Distinctly Christian Lens

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 particula

How to Pour a Christian Foundation for Education Amidst a Culture of Idolatry

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 plat

Public Schools Have Failed Us: A Call for Christian Education

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. Bre