Category: Classical Christian Education

How should Christians approach their role in shaping society? Dr. Daniel Samms, VSA teacher, pastor, and author of Christian Federalism: The Founding Vision and Road Ahead, joins us to chat about the varied meanings of Christian nationalism, America’s Christian heritage, and the relationship between faith, politics, and public life. If you’d like to explore Dr.…

Today we chat with Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, about the power of humor and our First Amendment rights. Freedom of speech isn’t just about fighting censorship; with this freedom also comes the responsibility to stand up for truth and call out erroneous ideas that damage culture and humanity.  Marlin Detweiler:Hello and welcome…

Alex & Stephen Kendrick join us today to share about their new film, Flywheel: Ignition of the Soul, which will be coming to U.S. theaters on October 16th, 2026. Learn why they re-shot the entire film in Portuguese, how God paved the way for a new ministry in Brazil, and more! Episode Transcription Note: This…

Fortitude is a word we kept and stopped using. It survives on medals, in eulogies, and in a certain register of formal speech, which is roughly where words go when a culture still respects a thing but no longer has daily use for the term. Ask ten people what it means and most will get…

Scripture returns to humility constantly, and to a modern ear a good deal of it lands badly. Lowliness of mind. Esteem other better than themselves. He made himself of no reputation. Read quickly, in English, in a culture that spends considerable effort teaching young people to advocate for themselves, this sounds like a sustained instruction…

You’ve met the kid. Somebody else’s fourteen-year-old who shakes your hand, looks you in the eye, answers the question you actually asked, and then asks you one back. You drive home thinking about it. Not with envy exactly, more like a question you can’t put down. How did they do that? Most of us go…

There’s a moment that comes for almost every capable student, and it usually arrives later than it should. She’s always been the one who gets it first. Reading came early, math came easily, and somewhere along the way “smart” stopped being a description and became an identity. Then she meets the subject that doesn’t yield.…

You can tell whether your child is learning math. There’s a worksheet, a score, a moment where they either understand it or they don’t. Reading has a similar tell. So does history, more or less. Character has no worksheet. You notice it in fragments instead. The way she handles losing. Whether he tells you the…

Ethos, pathos, and logos explained: what each appeal means, how to tell them apart, examples from ads and speeches, and how to teach them at every stage.

What makes Christian orthodoxy thrilling? Today we chat with Trevin Wax, author of The Thrill of Orthodoxy, about why doctrine and theology are anything but dull, and how recovering the richness of historic Christian belief can deepen our faith and draw us closer to God. Additionally, we’ll discover how church history can help Christians stand…