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BOOKS AND LETTERS Podcast‘The Great Conversation’ (A Monograph)The Great Conversation is Robert Maynard Hutchins’s classic opening volume to The Great Books of the Western World series edited by Mortimer J. Adler and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica with backing from the University of Chicago.This brilliant introductory work pulls readers into the historical conversation that has shaped Western ideas for nearly three millennia. In this republished stand-alone volume, Robert M. Woods provides an insightful, new introduction to Hutchins’ work, along with notes and annotations that lend the wisdom of his 30-plus years of observations as a classical educator.First published in 1952 as the...
2026-10-2401 min
BNR HeadlinesNieuwe strategie VS tegen Iran: ‘Economische D-day? Dát is het niet!’De Verenigde Staten zijn een ‘economische aanval’ gestart tegen Iran, zei de Amerikaanse minister van Financiën, Scott Bessent, gisteravond tijdens een persconferentie. Toch heeft de aankondiging meer weg van een laatste waarschuwing, met de dreiging van sancties, zegt correspondent Jan Postma. ‘Het was toch wat anders dan de zware taal van de afgelopen weken, toen hij dreigde dat het een economische D-day voor Iran zou worden, en dat is het toch niet.’Lees het hele artikel op bnr.nl: Nieuwe strategie VS tegen Iran: ‘Economische D-day? Dát is het niet!’See omnystudio.com/listener for p...
2026-08-2506 min
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastAn Invitation to the Founding CohortOver the last three videos, I’ve been making a case for education that I believe with all my heart.In the first video: modern education, with its watertight bulkheads, teaches students subjects but fails to teach them how to think. They learn everything except the art of learning.In the second video: there is a better road to education, the road the West always regarded as self-evident. The Great Conversation. Six years, one cohort, reading the primary texts of the Western tradition in chronological order as living voices, organized around the six great ideas: Tr...
2026-07-1705 min
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastHow the Great Conversation Course WorksWelcome to video three. In the first video, I talked about the great defect of modern education—subjects sealed off from one another by watertight bulkheads, students learning everything except the art of learning.In the second video, I introduced you to the Great Conversation: a six-year integrated humanities course in which a single cohort of twelve to sixteen students reads the primary texts of the Western tradition in chronological order, from Genesis and Homer to Lewis, Tolkien, and Solzhenitsyn.In this video, I want to answer the practical questions about the course. It’s one...
2026-07-1608 min
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastA Three-Thousand-Year ConversationIn the last video, I talked about Dorothy Sayers’s watertight bulkheads, the great defect of modern education which teaches students “subjects” but fails to teach them how to think.In this video, I want to show you the alternative. And to do that, I need to tell you about two men and a very big idea.In 1952, Robert Maynard Hutchins, who was then president of the University of Chicago, and the philosopher Mortimer J. Adler, published a fifty-four-volume set called the Great Books of the Western World. The first volume in the series was Hutchi...
2026-07-1307 min
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastThe Ship With Watertight BulkheadsIn 1947, the English writer Dorothy Sayers stood before an audience at Oxford and asked a question that continues to haunt modern education to this day. In some ways, the question has become the catalyst for the growth of classical Christian education over the past 30 years.“Do you often come across people,” she asked, for whom, all their lives, a ‘subject’ remains a ‘subject,’ divided by watertight bulkheads from all other ‘subjects,’ so that they experience very great difficulty making any mental connection between, say, philosophy and economics, or chemistry and art?Let’s think about that i...
2026-07-1006 min
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastIntroducing 'The Great Conversation' CourseDo you often come across people for whom, all their lives, a “subject” remains a “subject,” divided by water-tight bulkheads from all other “subjects,” so that they experience very great difficulty in making an immediate mental connection between, let us say, algebra and detective fiction, sewage disposal and the price of salmon, cellulose and the distribution of rainfall—or, more generally, between such spheres of knowledge as philosophy and economics, or chemistry and art?… Is it not the great defect of our education to-day (—a defect traceable through all the disquieting symptoms of trouble that I have mentioned—) that although we oft...
2026-07-0605 min
P3 DystopiaÖverturismDrömresmålen bryter samman under turismens tryck. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Att resa och turista har i århundraden varit en underbar eskapism från den grå vardagen. Ett sätt att möta nya människor och förstå världen - och få en stunds avkoppling. Turism har också varit en guldbiljett för städer för att få ekonomisk tillväxt och en blomstrande besöksnäring. Idag är turism en global mångmiljardindustri som också har mörka baksidor. Populära resmål som Venedig, Mallorca och...
2026-06-241h 09
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastThe Christian Humanist Reading LifeThe Invitation, the Investment, and the DoorThis is the video where I ask you to make a decision.Over the past couple of weeks, I have shared five lessons on classical Christian education.I’ve also shared with you the crisis, the wisdom impoverishment that afflicts our modern generation, what actually changes in a person who recovers the reading life, and exactly how the six weeks of The Christian Humanist Reading Life work, with my forthcoming book Becoming Classically Educated as the spine of the journey.Today I am opening en...
2026-05-3005 min
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastThe Course, the Structure, and the BookThe Course, the Structure, and the BookIn the first two videos I told you about the crisis: the profound impoverishment of wisdom in our modern age that afflicts even the most educated people in our society. And, I also talked about what actually changes in a person who recovers the reading life of a Christian Humanist. Today I want to show you exactly what we are going to do together over six weeks.First, I want to dispel a myth I suspect is sitting in the back of your mind....
2026-05-2910 min
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastWhat Happens When Wisdom Is RecoveredWhat Happens When Wisdom is RecoveredI want to tell you about a former adult student of mine. I'll call him Mike.Mike came to me several years ago. He was a retired professional in his fifties, successful, and genuinely intelligent. He was fairly well read, politically engaged. He kept up with the news. He thought of himself as an educated person, and by every conventional measure, he was.But he came to me with something he couldn't quite name. He described it as a sense of intellectual and spiritual restlessness, perhaps a...
2026-05-2807 min
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastThe Crisis and the InvitationThere’s a paradox at the heart of modern life and I think you’ve probably felt it even if you haven’t had the words to explain it.We are, by nearly every metric and standard, the most educated generation in human history. Ours has issued more college degrees, distributed more information, and provided more access to more content than any people group or generation who have ever lived. Yet, we all feel the burden that something is profoundly wrong. Not only do we feel it intuitively, but studies confirm that we are more anxious, more distra...
2026-05-2606 min
Classical EducationMusings with Dr. Joshua Herring: A Candid Conversation about Classical EducationAbout the GuestJoshua Herring is the Curriculum Program Manager for the Rafiki Foundation, Director of the Logres Institute for Classical Liberal Studies, and author of Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: C.S. Lewis’s Images of Gender. He has taught 6-12th grade humanities, spend three years in high school administration, and built classical education programs at the college level. He loves helping teachers, leaders, and parents own their intellectual inheritance.Logres InstituteVisit https://www.logresinstitute.org/, and apply for their programs after July 1.About Joshua's Conferencehttps://theclassicalconsortium.co...
2026-05-211h 10
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastLesson 5 - Easing Yourself Into the Classical Christian TraditionLesson 5:bEasing Yourself Into the Classical Christian Tradition in 15 Minutes A DayIn lesson 5, I want to address a final matter essential to this whole series of lessons, the education of the parents or adults. In the first place, I don’t think it’s wise for parents who are educating their children classically to neglect the tradition themselves. Of course, it’s understandable that many parent who have begun educating their children classically, did not receive the same education themselves. But that’s not a reason to neglect it’s pursuit. You’ll do better by your own chi...
2026-05-2109 min
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastLesson 4 - Measuring SuccessLesson 4: Measuring Success: Beyond Assessments, Achievements, and AccomplishmentsI want to ask you a question that I suspect no one involved in your child's education has ever directly asked you.What does success look like—not at the end of the school year, not at graduation, not when they enter college, not at their first job—but at forty-five?What does success look like at forty-five? What kind of person do you want your child to be when they are forty-five years old? To clarify, I’m not asking, What do you want them t...
2026-05-1912 min
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastLesson 3: Consider the AlternativeLesson 3: Consider the Alternative: The High Price of NOT Educating Children ClassicallyHere in lesson three, I want to make an argument that might make you slightly uncomfortable. I'm going to make it anyway, because it's true — and because if we're being thoughtful, we'll recognize that the discomfort that comes with wrestling with this argument is itself instructive.Here is my argument: choosing not to pursue a classical Christian education for your children is not a benign or neutral decision. It is a choice that comes with a price tag. And the cost of not ed...
2026-05-1606 min
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastLesson 2: Leveraging Your Leisure: How to Take Advantage of SummertimeThere is a word that has almost entirely lost its meaning in our culture, and I want to try to give it back to you before summer slips away into another season of busyness dressed up as rest.The word is leisure.Now, I know what you’re probably thinking: I know what leisure means. It means time off. Vacation. The weekend. And you wouldn’t be alone in thinking that—most people in our culture use the words leisure, recreation, entertainment, and amusement interchangeably, as though they all meant roughly the same thing.But...
2026-05-1110 min
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastLesson 1: Three Mistakes Parents Make Without Even Knowing ItLet me begin this lesson with a confession. When I first started working in Christian education—more than thirty years ago now—I made all three of the mistakes I’m about to describe.It wasn’t because I was a bad parent or a careless educator. I made these mistakes because I had not yet been taught to think differently. I hadn’t yet discovered, at least in any meaningful way, the older Christian intellectual tradition. I actually didn’t have the furniture I needed to cultivate a robust life of the mind. As a result, I did what m...
2026-05-0814 min
Further Together the ORAU PodcastTake to the bed, bring a cake and remember your value: A conversation with Naomi Asher, The MavenIf you take anything away from this podcast episode, Naomi Asher wants you to know you are enough, you are worthy and you have value. In this episode of Further Together, Naomi and host Michael Holtz talk about career burnout, the need for rest and recovery, and finding yourself in the process. Naomi is the author of the book, “Take to the Bed (And Bring a Cake),” about the importance of giving yourself permission to rest when life gets overwhelming (and life gets overwhelming at times), evaluate whether what you do and how you present yourself to the world aligns with...
2026-04-2257 min
The SowerC.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy (2026 Conference) - The Sower Episode 80 (audio)Responses to modernism in the three Ransom novels (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength).
Plenary panel from the 2026 Ciceronian Society Conference in Omaha, Nebraska, March 12, 2026. Featuring presentations by Joshua Bowman, Joshua Herring, Sean Hadley, Madeleine Austin, and Scott Postma.
0:00 Episode Intro 1:40 Bowman 9:25 Herring 29:28 Hadley43:45 Austin59:30 Postma 1:22:20 Q & A
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2026-04-121h 44
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastEp. 4 - Becoming a Full-Time Writer: C. M. MillerIn episode 4 of the BOOKS AND LETTERS Podcast, I was privileged to chat with Curtis Miller, and discuss his journey from being a high school English teacher to becoming a full-time professional writer. C. M. Miller is a columnist, playwright, and kids writer who enjoys tackling books and ideas for a Christian-contrarian audience. He writes professionally for PragerU Kids but his writing has also appeared in numerous other outlets like Blaze Media, The Federalist, and City Journal. He is married with two children and lives in L.A.After listening to the podcast, I encourage...
2025-12-1137 min
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastEp. 0 - Introducing the BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastThe BOOKS AND LETTERS podcast explores the fullness of what it means to live as a steward of words in this modern world, in an age dominated by fleeting trends and digital noise.It’s no secret that Western culture is fragmented, transient, and untethered from the language and ethical norms that once grounded society. Granted there has never been a univocal posture toward the perennial human questions; nor, has there been any kind of “golden age.” But, historically, there existed in the West a conversational relationship about matters of faith, culture, and creativity. Even in disagreement, there...
2025-06-0502 min
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The Consortium PodcastEp 67 - Dr. Scott Postma on Mastering the Academic EssayThis is Episode 67 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Dr. Scott Postma delivers a breakout session on Mastering the Academic Essay. Fundamentally, good writing is clear thinking made visible. This means precision is the capital concern of any essay. This talk discusses how to teach students to say what they mean and say it appropriately, precisely, concisely, and vividly.
This talk was given at the 2024 Consortium conference in Maynard, MA on July 12-13, 2024.
Kepler's Consortiums provide resources and regional connections for Christian...
2025-05-1651 minThe Consortium PodcastEp 66 - Dr. Scott Postma on Unstupiding Ourselves: The Truth About the High Calling of Classical Christian EducationThis is Episode 66 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Dr. Scott Postma delivers a keynote address titled, "Unstupiding Ourselves: The Truth About the High Calling of Classical Christian Education." His talk takes up a case made in a 2022 article by social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, who argued that a particular change in the way social media works made the past 10 years of American life uniquely stupid. Drawing from the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, Haidt accurately describes a nation that is suddenly disoriented and unable to...
2025-04-2534 min
BOOKS AND LETTERS PodcastA Call for PapersThe Consortium: A Journal of Classical Christian Education is currently accepting submissions for the Summer 2025 issue which will focus on writing and rhetoric in Classical Christian Education.If you would like to submit an article for consideration, please send it along with a short bio of yourself to submissions@theconsortiumjournal.com.Article submissions should be between 2000-6000 words; book reviews should be between 800-1500 words. Submission deadline for the summer issue is April 1, 2025.The Consortium is a semiannual (June & December) academic journal promoting classical Christian education and fostering human flourishing for...
2025-03-1901 minThe Consortium PodcastEp. 63 - Why Irving Babbitt Matters to the Modern Renewal of Classical Christian EducationThis is Episode 63 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Dr. Scott Postma leads a breakout session on Why Irving Babbitt Matters to the Modern Renewal of Classical Christian Education at the 2024 Consortium conference in Maynard, MA on July 12-13, 2024. Babbitt sought to recover a moral imagination and revive the classical virtues of temperance, justice, courage, and wisdom—even the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity—as they were timeless and essential for the cultivation of a balanced and harmonious life.
Kepler's Consortiums provide resources and regional conn...
2025-01-0944 min
CLGLR Football Podcast1994 SeasonIn this episode we sit down with Paul Denekas, Raymond Johnson, Monte Post & Scott Postma to talk about the 1994 CLGLR football season!
2024-04-132h 13The Consortium PodcastEp. 51 - Dr. Scott Postma on The Undeniable and Universal Value of BeautyThis is Episode 51 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
This episode is a talk given by Dr. Scott Postma titled "The Undeniable and Universal Value of Beauty" at the New England Consortium of Classical Educators in the summer of 2023.
Dr. Scott Postma served as a minister for 20 years and as a Christian educator for nearly 30 years. He is currently the president and CEO of Kepler Education. He has earned degrees in the humanities (Ph.D., Faulkner University), Christian and classical studies (M.A., Knox Theological Seminary), religion and English literature...
2024-04-041h 07The Consortium PodcastEp. 50 - Timothy Knotts on the New England Consortium of Classical EducatorsThis is Episode 50 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Timothy Knotts sits down with Dr. Scott Postma to talk about the New England Consortium of Classical Educators and their mission to point New England to the unifying Truth found in Christ and His creation, the Good of fellowship with like-minded individuals, and the Beauty reflected in great works of literature, science, and art, through teaching, conversation, and conferences.
Timothy is a co-founder of the Consortium, and lives in Windsor, Connecticut with his wife, Cynthia, and their four...
2024-02-2939 minThe Consortium PodcastEp. 45 - Serving Students with Special Needs in Classical Christian EducationThis is Episode 45 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Dr. Scott Postma is joined by Dr. Gregory Soderberg and his wife, Cynthia, a trained S2C Practitioner, and the director of Spellibrate. Spellibrate is a S2C (Spelling to Communicate) education model that presumes competence in children with special needs while building the skills they need for reliable communication and simultaneously equipping the parents to work with their child.
Because Classical Christian Education focuses on teaching students rather than merely teaching a curriculum, there is much in c...
2024-01-0440 min
This Golden Hour40. Scott Postma and Kepler EducationIn today’s episode, we get to spend time with Scott Postma from Idaho. Scott is a homeschool father of four and a grandfather of six, all of whom are homeschooled. He has a PhD in Humane Letters from Faulkner University, and he's the president and CEO of Kepler Education, a marketplace for live online classical Christian education. Named after the famous German astronomer, Johannes Kepler, Kepler Education helps students enjoy the freedom of homeschooling with the expertise of a broad faculty. Before their first child was born in 1991, Scott's wife already knew she wanted to homeschool, but Scott th...
2024-01-021h 19CrossPolitic ShowHow Can We Improve Education Right Now? (Kepler Education) w/ Dr. Scott Postma How to raise up wise leaders + C.S. Lewis pointing the way in these tough times!
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2023-12-2042 min
Refining Rhetoric with Robert BortinsChristian Humanism: Not What You Think! with Scott Postma Are Christianity and humanism compatible worldviews? In this episode, Robert sits down with Scott Postma, a Christian humanist writer and president of Kepler Education. Scott explains why Christian humanism is probably not what you think, putting it up against another philosophy more are familiar with—secular humanism. He discusses the origins of Christian humanism and the great thinkers behind this philosophy, including the brilliant minds of J. R. R. Tolkien and Flannery O'Connor. Scott also explores what he believes the future of online classical education will look like and how Kepler Education, "a marketplace for live online classical Christian ed...
2023-10-1828 min
QuiddityConsorting with Classical EducatorsIn this episode Brandon connects with a panel of friends, old and new, to discuss the development of regional Consortiums of Classical Educators. Apprenticeship graduates Timothy Knotts, Jessie Smith, and Carrie Eben, as well as President of Kepler Education, Scott Postma, discuss the formation and goals of these consortiums and how they seek to serve local classical educators.CIRCE Apprenticeship:https://circeinstitute.org/apprenticeship/Central Consortium June 2-3:https://theclassicalconsortium.com/central-consortium/Southern Consortium June 9-10:https://theclassicalconsortium.com/southern-consortium/New...
2023-05-2243 min
Tindel's Razor#74 Benjamin Postma - From EMT to Police OfficerSend the show a text here!Today I talk with my friend Ben about his transition from working as an EMT to becoming a police officer. We talk about his training, qualified immunity, crisis intervention, and the humanity that's so essential to never lose sight of as a first responder. You can find other ways to get involved with this conversation and many others by following me on social media, subscribing to my podcast/video channels and sharing this episode if you agree that the best way to fight bad ideas is by talking about...
2023-03-2057 minThe Consortium PodcastEp. 44 - Generalization vs. SpecializationThis is Episode 44 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog sponsored by Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma is joined by Kepler's Academic Advisor, Joffre Swait, to discuss generalization and specialization. In a world that is increasingly more specialized, research is demonstrating what classical educators have known all along—generalists are typically more successful in life and work that specialists. While specialists tend to excel in their profession more quickly at the outset, they also stagnate quicker; whereas, generalists are slower out the gate but tend to flourish in a longer more sustained fashion, and do...
2023-02-1637 minThe Consortium PodcastEp. 43 - Brent Pinkall and Redeeming the Six ArtsThis is Episode 43 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog sponsored by Kepler Education.
In this episode, Brent Pinkall, a lecturer in rhetoric at New St. Andrews College and author of the new book, Redeeming the Six Arts: A Christian Approach to Chinese Classical Education joins Scott Postma to talk about the characteristics of the six classical Chinese arts and how they relate to the Western liberal arts.
Brent argues that classical Christian education is not fundamentally a canon of fixed texts or subjects but rather an approach rooted in the Fifth Commandment: Honor t...
2022-11-181h 10The Consortium PodcastEp. 42 - Joe Carlson and the Divine ComedyThis is Episode 42 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog sponsored by Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma talks with Dante Scholar, Joe Carlson, about his new translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.
Joe is a graduate of New St Andrews College, in Moscow, ID, completed his MA and is now pursuing PhD in Literature at the University of Dallas. He is married to Jen, they have one son, Joseph Benaiah, and prior to pursuing his doctorate, he served as a pastor in California for seven years.
Joe's books can be found...
2022-11-031h 01The Consortium PodcastEp. 41 - Dr. Mike Wilhelm on Youth Ministry and the Iona ProjectThis is Episode 41 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog sponsored by Kepler Education.
In this episode, Dr. Mike Wilhelm joins Scott Postma to talk about the Great Books and the life of the mind, ministering to youth as the senior chaplain at a residential child care facility, and the Iona Project—a quasi-neo-monastic gap-year opportunity for college graduates.
Dr. Wilhelm is the senior chaplain at Cal Farley Boys Ranch near Amarillo, TX. Cal Farley Boys Ranch is NOT actually exclusively for boys and has been a leader in residential childcare services for over 80 ye...
2022-10-2646 minThe Consortium PodcastEp. 40 - Dr. Junius Johnson and Redeeming ImaginationThis is Episode 40 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog sponsored by Kepler Education.
In this episode, Dr. Junius Johnson joins Scott Postma to talk about Liberal Arts Education, Great Books, Fantasy, and redeeming the human Imagination.
Dr. Johnson is a Yale-trained, independent scholar of theology, philosophy, and literature who devotes his time to thinking and writing about whatever is good, noble, and excellent, and how to bring these things to bear to nurture meaningful lives. He resides in Memphis, TN with his wife, Rebekah, and their two children.
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2022-10-1942 minThe Consortium PodcastEp. 39 - Carrie Eben on Intellectual Virtues, Assessment, and Poetic KnowledgeThis is Episode 39 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog sponsored by Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma talks with Carrie Eben, a classical educator and the founding consultant at Classical Eben. Carrie was introduced to classical education and Douglas Wilson’s book Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning in 1999 when she began working at St. Augustine’s Classical School in Tulsa. Since then, she has provided a classical education for her children in both private, classical schools (where she taught) and classical homeschool. She joined Classical Conversations in 2010 as an Essentials of the English Lang...
2022-10-0753 minThe Consortium PodcastEp 38 - Karen Elliott and Rafiki FoundationThis is Episode 38 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog sponsored by Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma talks with the executive director of the Rafiki Foundation, Karen Elliott. Rafiki means "friend" in Swahili and depicts the purpose of the Foundation - to help people know God and raise their standard of living with excellence and integrity. Since 1985, the Foundation has been building Rafiki Villages throughout Africa that seek to cultivate human flourishing through Bible study and classical Christian education.
Karen has served with Rafiki since 1990, including twelve years on the mission field...
2022-09-2943 minThe Consortium PodcastEp. 37 - Dr. Chris Swanson and Learning for LifeThis is Episode 37 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog sponsored by Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma interviews Dr. Chris Swanson, president of Gutenberg College in Eugene, Oregon. Dr. Swanson shares his own unique education journey, Gutenberg's innovative (but not new) approach to a liberal arts education, and why educators should consider attending the Learning for Life Education Conference hosted by Gutenberg College in September each year. This year the conference is September 8-10, 2022.
Learning for Life Education Conference speakers and topics include:
Amanda Butler of Classical Conversations “Reclaiming the...
2022-08-2437 min
Friday Push to ProdS3:E4: The A to Z of Game DesignWe talk Game Design with Ziba Scott- Owner of PopCannibal- and Amor Estandian - Senior Game Designer at Pipeworks Studios. Topics include: What do designers do? Working with Licensed IPs vs Your own IP Dealing with community expectations. Controlling Budgets Guests: Zib Scott Amor Estandian Hosts Katie Postma Rick Heaton Other links: Crossing the Streams Podcast by Amor Kind Words by PopCannibal Block Pooper by PopCannibal
2022-06-071h 04
The Everlasting EducationEp. 15 - The Promise of a Christian PaideiaThis is Episode 15 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait discuss chapter 8 of Hicks Norms and Nobility, "The Promise of Christian Paideia." Hicks states, "The creative tension between pagan humanism and Christianity animates normative education and promises to lift the student to a level of understanding above reason in an experience of faith. Faith satisfies man's craving for a transcendent justification of the Ideal Type, at the same time as it makes possible on a universal scale the self-transcendence that the ancient philosophers sought only be esoteric...
2022-05-1330 minThe Consortium PodcastEp. 36 - Why New England Needs Classical EducationThis is Episode 36 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog sponsored by Kepler Education.
In this episode, Sarah Abbott and Tim Knotts of the Classical Learning Consortium for New England join Scott Postma to discuss the need for classical education in New England. Given the number of Ivy League schools in New England, it is only obvious that it once was the epicenter for liberal education in the United States; In the 19th century, however, it became a leader in the push for the modern education of Horace Mann and John Dewey. Learn why, like never b...
2022-05-051h 01The Everlasting EducationEp. 14 - Chapter Seven of Norms and Nobility: The Ennobling the MassesThis is Episode 14 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait discuss the importance of bringing an "aristocratic" education to a "democratic" people. "Classical scholars," says Hicks, "recognize that material efficiency may make life possible, but it does not make society civilized or life worth living, nor is it alone capable of preserving the democratic ideals." We need to recognize that Dewey was wrong and that we should not allow democracy's tendency to race to the bottom influence education. Instead, we need to make normative learning (liberal arts...
2022-04-2930 minThe Everlasting EducationEp. 13 - Chapter Six of Norms and Nobility: On the Necessity of DogmaThis is Episode 13 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait discuss the importance of dialectical learning and how that is different than dialectical materialism. In Chapter Six, Hicks asserts that "all knowledge of first and final causes in which man defines himself and his purposes begins with doma, not with doubt, and feed on itself dialectically. Man's knowledge is without value to him unless he reaches it dialectically—unless it animates his body, indwells his mind, and possesses his soul. True dialectical education points man upward while it...
2022-04-0734 minThe Everlasting EducationEp. 12 - Chapter Five of Norms and Nobility: Saving the AppearancesThis is Episode 12 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.
In Chapter Five, Hicks treats the modern shift in mathematics and the sciences from its program of seeking to "save the appearances" to mere material analysis; that is, from man seeking his highest level-of-being (the normative) to serving his lowest level-of-being (the analytical).
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait unpack the chapter by explaining what the phrase "save the appearances" means—(hint: from the Greek: σῴζειν τὰ φαινόμενα [sozein ta phainomena], which means "to propose explanations that enable us to account for what appears before us")—why it wa...
2022-03-3131 minThe Everlasting EducationEp. 11 - Chapter Four of Norms and Nobility: The Tyrannizing ImageThis is Episode 11 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.
In Chapter Four, Hicks “Tyrannizing Image,” which is to speak of the Ideal image of human perfection. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait unpack the chapter and discuss one of the more subtle but efficacious distinctions between modern and classical education—the educator’s goal for the student. The aim of modern education is the Real: the student’s efficient existence. The aim of the classical educator, on the other hand, is the Ideal, the difficult-to-define standard of excellence by which a man apriorical...
2022-03-2530 minThe Everlasting EducationEp. 10 - Learning in War-Time, C. S. Lewis - Part 2This is Episode 10 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production, and part two of a two-part episode in which Joffre Swait and Scott Postma read and discuss C. S. Lewis's sermon, "Learning in War-Time."
C. S. Lewis, himself a veteran of World War One, delivered the sermon at St. Mary the Virgin Church, Oxford, on Sunday, October 22, 1939. In his sermon, Lewis defends traditional humanistic learning even when there was little chance of finishing the task since WW2 was looming. Lewis suggests, "The larger issue is not learning in war-time, but learning at any time, especially w...
2022-03-0332 minThe Everlasting EducationEp. 9 - Learning in War-Time, C. S. Lewis - Part 1This is Episode 9 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.
This is part one of a two-part episode in which Joffre Swait and Scott Postma read and discuss C. S. Lewis's sermon, "Learning in War-Time."
C. S. Lewis, himself a veteran of World War One, delivered the sermon at St. Mary the Virgin Church, Oxford, on Sunday, October 22, 1939. In his sermon, Lewis defends traditional humanistic learning even when there was little chance of finishing the task since WW2 was looming. Lewis suggests, "The larger issue is not learning in war-time, but learning at...
2022-03-0335 minThe Everlasting EducationEp. 8 - Chapter Three of Norms and Nobility: Teaching the Father of the ManThis is Episode 8 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait unpack some of the salient points in chapter three of David V. Hicks, Norms and Nobility. Hicks argues that "the activity of learning takes place in a no-man's land between what the student can accomplish and what he may not be able to accomplish." Contrary to the modern child psychologist's aims, the classical educator emphasizes mastering an inherited body of knowledge rather than on "developing a happy, well-adjusted child."
David V. Hicks's, Norms and Nobility...
2022-02-2529 minThe Everlasting EducationEp. 7 - Marking Time as a Liturgy for Learning and LifeThis is Episode 7 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait set aside Norms and Nobility to talk calendars and liturgy.
As most are aware, a calendar is a way of marking time by reference to important events in our lives. What many may not immediately recognize, however, is the way in which a calendar is liturgical. Calendars shape our common thinking about the way we should live and learn and worship together by marking time according to those most important events, particularly surrounding the life o...
2022-02-1716 minThe Consortium PodcastAndrew Kern: What Happened to Classical Education?This is Episode 35 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma talks with Andrew Kern of the CiRCE Institute about Classical Education and Andrew's 3-part article, What Happened to Classical Education? Listen in as Andrew brilliantly answers some of the big questions educators should be (and are) asking: What is classical education? What forms or variations does it offer? Is it an identifiable method? Is it a formula or even a form? Is it a creed, a value system, a set of skills? What do we mean when we...
2022-02-091h 18The Consortium PodcastThe Growing Spotlight on Classical Christian EducationThis is Episode 34 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma sits down with Joffre Swait to discuss Fox Nation's recent 5-part documentary on classical Christian education and what the growing spotlight means for Classical Christian Education. First, we discussed the various themes and implications treated by each episode and then we looked at the larger consideration of how to reclaim the Christian Paideia in the 21st-Century.
You can find the Fox Nation documentary here and use code: classroom to watch it free.
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2022-02-0229 minThe Everlasting EducationEp. 6 - Chapter Two of Norms and Nobility - The Word is TruthThis is Episode 6 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait unpack Chapter Two of Norms and Nobility and discuss the tensions in language as it pertains to the classical educator. Modern education want to strip language of its mythos and focus merely on its logos. But, argues Hicks, this will not do. The Classical Christian educator knows better and must hold the mythos and logos in tension as they each play a vital role in a person's knowledge of reality.
David V. Hicks's, Norms and...
2022-01-2842 minThe Consortium PodcastJake Litwin on Apologetics and Integrated HumanitiesThis is Episode 33 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma sits down with Jake Litwin to discuss the Integrated Humanities and Apologetics, and why the various concepts studied in these subjects are essential to a well-rounded high school education.
Jake is a teacher at Kepler Education, teaching Ancient and Classical Humanities and Apologetics. He is also part of The Doane Creative Agency team, a brand building and content communication company. Jake earned a B.A. in Christian Studies with an emphasis in Christian Education. He lives i...
2022-01-2035 minThe Everlasting EducationEp. 5 - Chapter One of Norms and Nobility - Virtue is the Fruit of LearningThis is Episode 5 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait unpack Chapter One and discuss some of the misconceptions of modern education, discuss the importance of Inquiry, Aesthetics, and Ethics as parts of the dialectical core of a classical Christian education.
David V. Hicks's, Norms and Nobility was first published in 1981 when it won the American Library Association's Outstanding Book Award. Since that time, it has gone on to become one of the most influential books in the Classical Education movement. Hicks's "purpose in writing t...
2022-01-0630 minThe Everlasting EducationEp. 4 - Introducing Norms and NobilityThis is Episode 4 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.
David V. Hicks's, Norms and Nobility was first published in 1981 when it won the American Library Association's Outstanding Book Award. Since that time, it has gone on to become one of the most influential books in the Classical Education movement. Hicks's "purpose in writing the book is to offer a personal interpretation of classical education—its ends, as well as some of its means—and to respond to the objections of those who might approve of the goals of such an education, but who believe that...
2021-12-0334 minThe Everlasting EducationEp. 3 - Thanksgiving PoemsThis is Episode 3 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.
In this delightful and enlightening episode, Joffre Swait shares some of his Thanksgiving poetry and together he and Scott Postma unpack some of the more salient themes. This is an episode that would have made Horace proud, an episode we know you're going to enjoy. Listeners can find these poems and many more in Joffre's book, Well Met: Poems of Companionship. Happy Thanksgiving!
2021-11-2446 minThe Consortium PodcastDr. Chris Schlect on the History and Meaning of the Liberal ArtsThis is Episode 32 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma sits down with Dr. Chris Schlect to discuss the Liberal Arts, its history in classical thought, what the liberal arts are, and what they are not.
Dr. Schlect is the Senior Fellow of History at New Saint Andrews College, where he teaches courses in ancient and medieval civilizations, US history, the history of American Christianity, medieval education, and Classical Rhetoric, among other subjects. Dr. Schlect is also the Director of New Saint Andrews College’s graduate pr...
2021-11-191h 13The Everlasting EducationEp. 2 - The Wolf at the Schoolhouse DoorThis is Episode 2 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait unpack the introduction to Jack Schneider's book, The Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door. Join them as they listen in, react to, and discuss Schneider's assault on parents who challenge the validity of the public school system. In Schneider's worldview, the public school system is good and right by default and it is the parents and conservative legislators who challenge the public school system who are the ravening wolves at the schoolhouse door.
2021-11-161h 07The Everlasting EducationEp. 1 - Is Public School Constitutional?This is Episode 1 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait unpack Philip Hamburger's Wall Street Journal article, Is the Public School System Constitutional? In this article, Burger asserts that "The public school system...burdens [parents] not simply with poor teaching and discipline, but with political bias, hostility toward religion, and now even sexual and racial indoctrination. Schools often seek openly to shape the very identity of children" and then asks, "What can parents do about it?" Listen in to hear Scott and Joffre's answer to Bur...
2021-11-051h 11The Consortium PodcastNew Podcasts Coming from the Consortium and Kepler EducationThis is Episode 31 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, we announce the new lineup of podcasts for the upcoming year.
The Consortium Podcast is where listeners can listen into engaging academic conversations with teachers, authors, and professors engaged in Classical Christian Education.
The Everlasting Education podcast will continue in same vein as the earlier episodes of the Consortium podcast with Scott Postma and Joffre Swait taking a cue from Chesterton's view of "having a gentle contempt for education" and engaging the day-to-day questions and concerns t...
2021-10-2816 minThe Consortium PodcastHow to Have a Successful Academic YearThis is Episode 30 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
Classes at Kepler Education have begun and in this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait discuss some of the important ways students can have a successful academic year. Education is a student's vocation. It's a real calling for a specific time of a young person's life and there is much to be gained by a thankful and thoughtful student. Student listening in will gain some real valuable help and encouragement in this episode.
Learn more about Online Cl...
2021-09-1430 minThe Consortium PodcastInterview with Dr. Mitch Stokes on Calculus and Teaching Math ClassicallyThis is Episode 29 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait interview Dr. Mitch Stokes to talk about his new Calculus textbook., Calculus for Everyone, and what it means to teach math classically.
Mitch Stokes (Ph.D., Notre Dame) is a senior fellow of philosophy at New St. Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. In addition to studying philosophy under world-renowned philosopher Alvin Plantinga, Stokes holds degrees in philosophy, religion, & mechanical engineering. He is the author of Calculus for Everyone, books on apologetics, and biographies...
2021-09-0250 minThe Consortium PodcastSocial Life and Online EducationThis is Episode 28 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait discuss the important (and sometimes annoying) question about how homeschool students are going to get any "socialization." Adding an additional dynamic to this question is the fact that many students are now taking online classes--like Kepler Students.
But the question assumes that "socialization" is a good thing and that students who are not in traditional brick and mortar schools are going to miss out on an important aspect of lif...
2021-08-2725 minThe Consortium PodcastTop Twenty BooksThis is Episode 27 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait host a top-twenty countdown of Great Books that should make every student's reading list. Books are listed and discussed briefly according to historical time periods. While this list is far and away from being exhaustive, it will give listeners a solid picture of each period of time and set students on track for obtaining a liberal arts education.
Learn more about acquiring a liberal arts education at https://kepler.ed...
2021-08-1950 minThe Consortium PodcastLogic and Latin: Foundations for Classical Christian EducationThis is Episode 26 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait discuss the importance of Logic and Latin in Classical Christian Education.
Stratford Caldecott asked the important question, “What kind of education would enable a child to progress in the rational understanding of the world without losing his poetic and artistic appreciation of it?”
The short answer is only a truly liberal arts education can enable a child to gain a rational understanding of the world while still maintaining, and even enhancing, his p...
2021-08-1231 minThe Consortium PodcastThe Way to Make Thy Son Rich: The True Purpose of an EducationThis is Episode 16 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
Aristotle famously noted that poetry is more philosophical than history because while history teaches what man has done in particular, poetry teaches us what he can and might do universally. This quite evident in George Herbert's Poem, "The Church-Porch." In this Episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait unpack a few stanzas of Herbert's delightful poem and discuss the perennial human questions--really, the causes and effects--centered around raising children, education, and its effects on society. One important note Herbert makes--The way to make thy...
2021-05-1344 minThe Consortium PodcastVisual Communication and the Liberal ArtsThis is Episode 11 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode is Scott Postma and Joffre Swait interview Roxana Corradino, an artist, college professor, and Kepler teacher, and discuss visual communications and the importance of its study in a liberal arts education.
Images and signs are all around us. But unless we are aware that every day we are being bombarded with ideas, subtly, in the form of visual communication, we may fail to see how our perceptions are being influenced. In this episode Roxana Corradino discusses the nature...
2021-04-0840 minThe Consortium PodcastThe Liberal Arts Education, Practically SpeakingThis is Episode 10 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait get practical about a classical liberal arts education.
You can also learn more about Kepler Education and the consortium of teachers who share this vision for student flourishing by visiting our website at https://kepler.education.
Or, visit the Consortium Blog at https://consortium.kepler.education/.
2021-03-2045 minThe Consortium PodcastA Liberal Arts Education and the Great ConversationThis is Episode 9 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait make a thorough treatment of the meaning of a classical liberal arts education and show its importance and benefits, namely that it has the potential to cultivate a wise and virtuous people whose resultant happiness produces a free and flourishing society. A liberal arts education can be stated as the pursuit and acquisition of that knowledge which is pleasurable for its own sake, and which frees the mind and prepares the soul to be wise a...
2021-03-1246 minThe Consortium PodcastRobots or gods: AI and Human EducationThis is Episode 8 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait discuss the development of AI and what this means in light of giving our children a Human Education. The robots are coming and that's not changing. But that shouldn't concern Christians who educate their children to be human beings who know how to assess value and not just function as a cog in a rote society.
Writing is an example of this kind of distinction. Writing can formulaic, but it is a...
2021-03-0540 minThe Consortium PodcastYou've Been Schooled! - Deinstitutionalizing SocietyThis is Episode 7 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait discuss the radical idea of deinstitutionalizing society and contend that the modern school, as we know it, doesn’t work for educating free men and women.
It does work well, however, toward the goal for which it was designed, which is to cultivate a society of both consumers and cogs—simultaneously consumers and cogs—a self-licking ice-cream cone if you will.
Building off of previous discussions, they get down into the weeds a...
2021-02-2650 minThe Consortium PodcastThe Architecture of Classical Christian EducationThis is Episode 6 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, we tackle the architecture of Classical Christian Education. All education has a foundation, a function, a form, and body of materials from which to build. And like any building, the excellence of an education not only depends on the excellence of the materials but on the excellence of the craftsmanship.
The foundation must be solid or else it will collapse under pressure. Additionally, the form of the education should follow the function of the education. Unfortunately, that's not...
2021-02-1846 minThe Consortium PodcastTen Books That Shaped Our Own EducationIn Episode 3, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait riff off of the humorous anecdote where Chesterton was asked which book he would want with him if ever stranded on a desert Island--Chesterton quickly answered, “Thomas’ Guide to Practical Shipbuilding”--and they discuss the top ten books they would recommend in a similar situation.
Joffre comes at this question from a personal standpoint and discusses the books that shaped his own education. Scott comes at it from both a personal and educator's perspective, highlighting the books that not only shaped his thoughts, but books worth reading again and aga...
2021-01-2651 minThe Consortium PodcastClassical Christian Education: A Light Against the Coming Dark AgeWe are witnessing the post-modern project collapse in on itself and left unchecked it will bring a new dark age in its wake. In this inaugural episode of the Consortium Podcast, Kepler Education president, Scott Postma, and Kepler student advisor, Joffre Swait, discuss the current effort to erase the past on which the pillars of Western civilization have been built by censoring literature and scapegoating those who challenge their power. They argue the light of the gospel, which is the only hope for this coming dark age, is best dispensed through classical Christian education.
Learn m...
2021-01-0755 min
Radio SavannahSfinx samengesteld door Maartje Laterveer, met Thijs JooresNon-Fictie Boek van de Maand April | Sfinx, samengesteld door Maartje Laterveer
In deze tweede aflevering van Radio Savannah worden Lola en Suzanne bijgestaan door super special guest Thijs Joores. Samen bespreken ze het non-fictie boek van de maand april: Sfinx, waarin Maartje Laterveer dertien essays samenbrengt over 'de man'. Wat betekent het om man te zijn? En wat is de rol van mannelijkheid in het vormgeven aan het dagelijks leven?
Interessant he, die mannen?
Als je verder wilt lezen over mannen en mannelijkheid, probeer dan bijvoorbeeld een van deze titels:
Jongens waren we - Jan Postma
" Jongens waren we" biedt...
2020-05-0147 min
Babel FMEspecial chicas en el jazz con Carla Bley, Rhoda Scott, Tineke PostmaDonna Khalifé, Alba Careta, Audrey Ochoa, Tineke Postma, Andrea Brachfeld, Marina Vallet.
2020-03-061h 01
Mondo Jazz2020 Winter JazzFest: New Projects and Out-of-TownersThe 2020 edition of the Winter JazzFest has just begun. This week we feature music by some of the most interesting bands from out of town who will be at the JazzFest, and new or unreleased material that will performed on the stages of the JazzFest. Of special interest yet-to-be-released material by Ted Poor, Kevin Eubanks & Orrin Evans and a unique reimagining of the work of Gil Scott Heron by Makaya McCraven, and musicians from the British, French and Italian scenes.The playlist also features Nduduzo Makhathini, Kokoroko, MAE.SUN, Dominique Fils-Aimé (pictured), Anne Paceo, Tin Men and t...
2020-01-242h 33
Co Live!Spotlight: Mijke LoevenIn Co Live! Spotlight ontvangt Co de Kloet twee uur lang prominente gasten. Aan de hand van hun favoriete muziek komt er allerlei zaken aan bod. Deze keer komt Mijke Loeven op bezoek. Loeven is een bekende naam in de Nederlandse jazzwereld. Ze studeerde aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag, maakte kunstprogramma’s voor o.a. de NPS en RTV Rijnmond en was o.a. directeur van Jazz International Rotterdam en North Sea Round Town. Tegenwoordig is Mijke werkzaam als directeur van het Amsterdamse Bimhuis.
Playlist:
The Preacher Man - Go!
Tineke Postma & Greg Osby Sonic Halo - Pleasant Af...
2019-06-232h 02