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Your friendly guide to the world of classical Christian education. Presented by Trinity Classical Academy.
We must make our kids feel happy… right? Keith McCurdy, an experienced family therapist and popular Classical Christian education speaker, argues that following feelings leads to disaster. Instead, the path to growth, maturity, and lasting happiness—at school and home—means embracing healthy struggle.
How can parents and teachers work together to produce thriving, sturdy children? Find out in this friendly guide to Classical Christian Education.
Who killed Fyodor Karamazov? Wealthy, boorish, debauched: the man made many enemies. The prime suspects are his three sons. Was it Dimitri, the hot headed eldest? Ivan, the atheist intellectual? Or young Alyosha, who loves holy living?
This murder mystery is at the heart of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoyevsky’s tale is a masterpiece, filled with unforgettable characters, narrative tensions, and theological depth. But are high school seniors up to the task of reading The Brothers Karamazov?
Trinity literature teacher Jandy Hardesty will help us find out, in this friendly guide to Classical Christian Education.
Teaching logic to middle schoolers—isn’t that asking for trouble? Or perhaps it’s just what the doctor ordered: young men and women learning careful, responsible rules of reasonable argument.
Still, it takes a bright and brave teacher to guide thirteen-year-olds into the land of logic. Find out how and why it’s done, in this friendly guide to Classical Christian Education.
Augustine had wealth, prestige, power—and gnawing void inside. How did God draw this sinner to himself? How did this restless man find rest? Augustine revealed all in his Confessions. Hear what Augustine confessed in this friendly guide to Classical Christian Education.
Presented by TrinityU, a service of Trinity Classical Academy in Santa Clarita, CA.
Are the stars, planets, and the galaxies in the night sky just a swirling mass of chaos? Or a divine dance of beauty, harmony, and order? And does being a Christian help or hinder our quest to understand the universe—and our place in it?
Find out how studying Johannes Kepler’s revolutionary approach to classical astronomy helps us answer these questions, in this friendly guide to the world of Classical Christian education.
Presented by TrinityU, a service of Trinity Classical Academy in Santa Clarita, CA.
Ancient writing teachers trained students to produce powerful and elegant writing on command. How? Through a writing practice called the “Chreia.” Find out how the Chreia works and how it trains students in wisdom, in this friendly guide to the world of Classical Christian education.
Presented by TrinityU, a service of Trinity Classical Academy in Santa Clarita, CA
How do weasels live? And why would a famous writer like Annie Dillard write a stylish, provocative, and potentially life-changing essay about living like one? Find out in this friendly guide to the world of Classical Christian Education.
If you would like to read the short essay for yourself, you can do so from this link.
Presented by TrinityU, a service of Trinity Classical Academy in Santa Clarita, CA.
Napoleon Bonaparte: hero or villain? Military genius or narcissistic tyrant? A curious historical figure to forget or one who helped make the modern world? Find out in this friendly guide to Classical Christian Education.
Presented by TrinityU, a service of Trinity Classical Academy in Santa Clarita, CA
Literacy is the foundation of all learning. But learning to read English can seem messy, illogical, even random. It doesn’t have to be, though. Find out how the “Logic of English” program makes reading clear and simple in this friendly guide to the world of classical Christian education.
Presented by TrinityU, a service of Trinity Classical Academy in Santa Clarita, CA.
The Bible and Ancient Greek and Roman education: do these really go together? Joe Rigney, theologian and author of Live Like A Narnian, joins us to explain how the Biblical pattern of priest, king, and prophet gives us a model for raising mature, thoughtful students, ready to engage and transform the world.
Find out more in this friendly guide to Classical Christian Education.
Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
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Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.
