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 call education. Either way, this episode was made for you. Join us as Eric Conn interviews the D...

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 full-flower, it must grow out of the soil of families that are eating, breathing, sleeping, livi...

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 episode of the St. Brendan's Podcast, we will argue that we are aiming at nothing less than making our c...

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 apostasy through GovEd? It's because children will naturally imitate their teachers, whether foolish or wise. Educa...

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 educational system makes an appeal to a higher standard, even if that's just the appetites, the passions, or the law o...