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Beauty Through Faith Podcast Why Beauty Matters: Brian Brown and the Anselm SocietyWelcome to Beauty Through Faith. I’m your host, Benjamin Harding, and today I’m really excited to sit down with Brian Brown, the Executive Director of the Anselm Society. Brian’s not only a good friend of our work, he’s also going to be one of the featured speakers at our upcoming Rocky Mountain Kalos Beauty Through Faith Conference on September 26th and 27th.Now, if you haven’t grabbed your tickets yet, you’ll want to—because we’ve put together such a rich lineup. We’ll be hearing from Dr. Junius Johnson, pianist Dr. Paul Barnes, v...

2025-09-1843 min

Beauty Through Faith Podcast Beauty, Faith, and Imagination: Joffre Swait Joins the Rocky Mountain ConferenceWe’re delighted to welcome Joffre Swait as our guest on this episode of the Beauty Through Faith Podcast. Joffre is a writer, thinker, and cultural commentator whose work draws out the deep connections between imagination, faith, and the way beauty shapes our lives. He will also be joining us this fall as part of the lineup for the Rocky Mountain Regional Conference of the Kalos Arts Foundation in Fort Collins, Colorado.In our conversation, Joffre reflects on how the Church speaks powerfully through art—not as decoration or entertainment, but as a living voice that calls us t...

2025-09-0242 min

Chinook Podcast Episode #77: Interview w/ Joffre Swait (complete) - Missao Guanabara, Poetry, Sports, EverythingMy apologies for the last episode, which was incomplete, here is the complete one.Joffre Swait is back to talk with Jamie, Nathan and Brad, this time in the studio. He came through town to do a town reading and to talk about his mission work of theological education to fathers in Brazil. You can find his substack ⁠here⁠. You can find some of his books ⁠here⁠ and ⁠here⁠. If you have any questions about our church, you can find our church ⁠⁠here⁠⁠. If you have questions, you can send them to pastoratchristcov...

2025-08-091h 35

Chinook Podcast Episode #77: Interview w/ Joffre Swait - Missao Guanabara, Poetry, Sports, EverythingJoffre Swait is back to talk with Jamie, Nathan and Brad, this time in the studio. He came through town to do a town reading and to talk about his mission work of theological education to fathers in Brazil. You can find his substack here. You can find some of his books here and here. If you have any questions about our church, you can find our church ⁠here⁠. If you have questions, you can send them to pastoratchristcovenant@proton.me.If you like what we are sharing, then please 'like', 'sha...

2025-07-2950 min

Discover A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Breakthrough.Why Children Matter by Douglas WilsonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/177990to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Children Matter Author: Douglas Wilson Narrator: Joffre Swait, Douglas Wilson, Nancy Wilson Format: mp3 Length: 1 hr and 51 mins Release date: 06-20-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Christian Living Publisher's Summary: In the Garden of Eden, there was only one "No." Everything else was "Yes." In this short book on childrearing, Douglas Wilson points out that we have a Father who delights in us and makes it easy for us to love and obey him. If that is the kind of Father we have, shouldn't we earthly parents...

2025-06-201h 51

Kingdom and Culture On Poetry and Pipes with Joffre SwaitIn this episode, we are joined by Joffre Swait, a poet, teacher, missionary, and pipe enthusiast from Moscow, Idaho. We discuss the importance of poetry in cultivating a rich Christian life and offer practical advice for those interested in exploring poetry. Joffrey recommends starting with poets like Rudyard Kipling, Robert Service, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, George Herbert and more. The conversation touches on how pipe smoking can serve as a meditative practice and a social activity. The episode wraps up with discussions on blending artistic and spiritual pursuits. Follow Joffre's work: https://substack.com/@j...

2025-06-1753 min

Verse and Venture Episode 3: Joffre Swait InterviewAn interview with Joffre Swait on the topics of poetry, feasting, creativity, and the goodness of God’s gifts.

2025-04-231h 01

Power-Up With The Spellbinding Full Audiobook Experience!Critique of Modern Youth Ministry by Christopher SchlectPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/170140to listen full audiobooks. Title: Critique of Modern Youth Ministry Author: Christopher Schlect Narrator: Joffre Swait Format: mp3 Length: 31 mins Release date: 03-26-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Fatherhood Publisher's Summary: The Church today does not expect what it ought to from children and their parents, and this can be attributed in large part to a flawed concept of youth ministry. This need not and should not be so. This essay discusses the reasons behind the problem and proposes some biblical solutions.

2025-03-2631 min

Absorb This Game-Changing Full Audiobook — Perfect During Your Workout.Critique of Modern Youth Ministry by Christopher SchlectPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/170140to listen full audiobooks. Title: Critique of Modern Youth Ministry Author: Christopher Schlect Narrator: Joffre Swait Format: mp3 Length: 31 mins Release date: 03-26-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Fatherhood Publisher's Summary: The Church today does not expect what it ought to from children and their parents, and this can be attributed in large part to a flawed concept of youth ministry. This need not and should not be so. This essay discusses the reasons behind the problem and proposes some biblical solutions.

2025-03-2631 min

Chinook Podcast Episode #66: Interview with Joffre Swait - Translation of Don Quixote, Brazil, history & conversation on poeticsOn this episode Brad, Nathan & Jamie talk with Joffre Swait about his translation work, his ministry in Brazil, some politics & history as well as his poetry. Joffre also reads a few of his poems. You can find some of Joffre's work here on YouTube. You can also find a bunch of his writing here on Substack. You can support his translation work of Don Quixote here. You can find his book of poems "Made in the Image" here. You can also find his book on "Christian Pipe Smoking" here. If you have any questions, please...

2025-02-251h 27

Unlock This Heart-Pounding Full Audiobook — Perfect On A Rainy Day.Joy at the End of the Tether by Douglas WilsonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/49956to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joy at the End of the Tether Author: Douglas Wilson Narrator: Joffre Swait Format: mp3 Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins Release date: 01-21-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Judaism Publisher's Summary: The book of Ecclesiastes is confusing to many believers, who see it as a debate between an untrustworthy nihilist and a genuinely wise man who trust in God instead of giving way to despair. However, Douglas Wilson takes issue with this interpretation, arguing that the author of Ecclesiastes is looking at the world with biblically informed vision. Because...

2025-01-212h 35

Get Hooked On The Must-Listen Full Audiobook Experience!A Son to Me by Peter LeithartPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/50001to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Son to Me Author: Peter Leithart Narrator: Joffre Swait Format: mp3 Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins Release date: 10-02-24 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Judaism Publisher's Summary: Samuel. Saul. David. Goliath. Jonathan. When we think of 1 & 2 Samuel, these names and the stories that make them memorable generally come to mind. But these narratives are more than mere history. Peter Leithart offers here a typological reading of 1 & 2 Samuel as a unified book. By giving careful attention to the book's literary structures and its patterns of types and antitypes, Leithart...

2024-10-029h 05

Step Inside The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Uplifting!The Shape of Sola Scriptura by Keith A. MathisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/178707to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shape of Sola Scriptura Author: Keith A. Mathison Narrator: Joffre Swait Format: mp3 Length: 9 hrs Release date: 07-11-24 Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 5 ratings Genres: Theology Publisher's Summary: In what shape do we find the doctrine of Sola Scriptura today? Many modern Evangelicals see it as a license to ignore history and the creeds in favor of a more splintered approach to Christian living. In the past two decades, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox apologists have strongly tried to undermine Sola Scriptura as unbiblical, unhistorical, and impractical. But...

2024-07-1130 min

The Kuyperian Commentary Podcast Episode 131: Pipes and Poetry Here is Joffre's newest book of poetry, Made in the Image https://www.amazon.com/Made-Image-Plain-Joffre-Swait/dp/1957905727 Also available on Canon+ https://mycanonplus.com Here is a link to Joffre's Spanish language ministry website https://missaoguanabara.com/ And here are a couple videos for you Joffre teaching you how to smoke a pipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdougX9q3dM Here is *that* video that Joffre mentioned in the video so you don't have to search for it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br8JRuslwI8

2024-04-2533 min

Fuel Your Mind With This Thrilling Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Repairing the Ruins by Douglas WilsonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/171350to listen full audiobooks. Title: Repairing the Ruins Author: Douglas Wilson Narrator: Joffre Swait Format: mp3 Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins Release date: 03-27-24 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 3 ratings Genres: School-Age Children Publisher's Summary: As parents, it is easy for us to look back and see the shortcomings of our own education. Since many of us were taught in public schools, we often have a pretty good idea of what we don't want our children to learn. But what exactly should we give them instead?

2024-03-277h 05

Listen To This Spellbinding Full Audiobook — Perfect On The Go.The Four by Peter J. LeithartPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/232938to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Four Author: Peter J. Leithart Narrator: Joffre Swait Format: mp3 Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins Release date: 03-25-24 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 3 ratings Genres: Christology Publisher's Summary: Deftly guiding listeners through “the four,” Peter Leithart delves into both the unique perspective of each gospel and their unifying witness to Jesus. The gospels are riddled with themes and types; Leithart reveals them and explains the Old Testament prophecies that intertwine with these apostolic books, as well as their underlying literary structures. He discusses the dating of the books, showing how...

2024-03-256h 20

Get Hooked On A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Eye-Opening.The White Horse King by Ben MerklePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/27287to listen full audiobooks. Title: The White Horse King Author: Ben Merkle Narrator: Joffre Swait Format: mp3 Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins Release date: 03-25-24 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 15 ratings Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers, monks, and soldiers all fell bloody under the Viking sword, hammer, and axe. Then, when the hour was most desperate, came an unlikely hero. King Alfred rallied the battered and bedraggled kingdoms of Britain and...

2024-03-255h 41

Dive Into A Binge-Worthy Full Audiobook On Your Commute.The White Horse King by Ben MerklePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/3899to listen full audiobooks. Title: The White Horse King Author: Ben Merkle Narrator: Joffre Swait Format: mp3 Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins Release date: 03-25-24 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 15 ratings Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers, monks, and soldiers all fell bloody under the Viking sword, hammer, and axe. Then, when the hour was most desperate, came an unlikely hero. King Alfred rallied the battered and bedraggled kingdoms of Britain and...

2024-03-255h 41

Savor The Sensational Full Audiobook Now, Curious Minds!The Four by Peter J. LeithartPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/232938to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Four Author: Peter J. Leithart Narrator: Joffre Swait Format: mp3 Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins Release date: 03-25-24 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 3 ratings Genres: Christology Publisher's Summary: Deftly guiding listeners through “the four,” Peter Leithart delves into both the unique perspective of each gospel and their unifying witness to Jesus. The gospels are riddled with themes and types; Leithart reveals them and explains the Old Testament prophecies that intertwine with these apostolic books, as well as their underlying literary structures. He discusses the dating of the books, showing how...

2024-03-256h 20

Indulge In Into A Binge-Worthy Full Audiobook In The Car.The Roar on the Other Side by Suzanne Underwood RhodesPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/112485to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Roar on the Other Side Author: Suzanne Underwood Rhodes Narrator: Joffre Swait Format: mp3 Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins Release date: 03-22-24 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Poetry & Nursery Rhymes Publisher's Summary: Suzanne Rhodes, a longtime poet and teacher, offers The Roar on the Other Side as an introductory guide to poetry for students (junior high and up). Focusing on the importance of sight and the necessity of practice, Rhodes easily communicates the joy of words to her listeners and helps them see how good poetry binds all...

2024-03-222h 51

Tune In To The Most Critically-Acclaimed Full Audiobook Today!Made in the Image by Joffre SwaitPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/221091to listen full audiobooks. Title: Made in the Image Author: Joffre Swait Narrator: Joffre Swait Format: mp3 Length: 34 mins Release date: 01-19-24 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Religious Publisher's Summary: This cheerful collection of rumbling poetry is the perfect introduction to the good life—the life each Christian should be living. There is wine, there are riddles, there is war with sin, there are jokes...all uttered in appreciation of this world that God made out of his own words. We all can imitate him: Poetry is a way of life.

2024-01-1934 min

The Larson Hicks Show Mind Viruses and the Intellectual Immune System w/ Joffre SwaitA video by Larson Hicks. Check out Joffre's Substack! https://joffrethegiant.substack.com/ This podcast is a ministry of Trinity Reformed Church.

2023-09-141h 39

Immerse Yourself In This Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Calvinist Poetry by Douglas Wilson - editor, Jayson Grieser - editorPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/221059to listen full audiobooks. Title: Calvinist Poetry Author: Douglas Wilson - editor, Jayson Grieser - editor Narrator: Joffre Swait Format: mp3 Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins Release date: 09-14-23 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Religious Publisher's Summary: This anthology of over a hundred poems written by Calvinists is a surprising introduction to the aesthetics of the Reformed tradition. Who knew there was such a host of Calvinist poets? Containing notes and short biographies to aid your enjoyment, this collection is the perfect starting point for appreciating these men and women—and the faith that in...

2023-09-145h 12

The Perspectivalist Season 4, Episode 4: Image-Bearing PoetryGetting Joffree on the podcast is always a blast of fresh insights. This giant Brazilian has just published a gem of a work! It's brief, but its brevity encompasses the longevity of the human experience. Poetry on pipes and martyrdom, food and manly churchmen. I think this is just in time for Father's Day. Ladies get two joys in purchasing this for their husbands/sons: a) Men fully in touch with their masculine whole. b) Men who think poetically about life. Made In The Image: Plain Poems by...

2023-05-2426 min

The Consortium Podcast Ep. 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 min

PipeCast Joffre Swait - Joffre The Giant - PipeCast #30Nosso convidado é Cachimbeiro, Influencer, Cristão, Escritor e Professor de Línguas.

2022-08-101h 57

Poets At War Poets At War Ep. 40: Joffre SwaitPoets At War Episode 40#PAW40Creators and Crusaders Episode 28#CC28https://www.youtube.com/joffrethegianthttps://joshuadavidling.com

2022-06-1752 min

The Everlasting Education Ep. 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 min

The Everlasting Education Ep. 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 min

The Everlasting Education Ep. 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 min

The Everlasting Education Ep. 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 min

The Everlasting Education Ep. 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 min

The Everlasting Education Ep. 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 min

The Everlasting Education Ep. 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 min

The Everlasting Education Ep. 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 min

The Everlasting Education Ep. 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 min

The Consortium Podcast The 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. You can...

2022-02-0229 min

The Everlasting Education Ep. 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 min

The Everlasting Education Ep. 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 min

Choc Knox Unplugged Knox Unplugged: Joffre Swait

2022-01-051h 53

Choc Knox Unplugged Knox Unplugged: Joffre Swait

2022-01-059h 14

The Everlasting Education Ep. 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 min

The Everlasting Education Ep. 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 min

The Everlasting Education Ep. 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 07

The Everlasting Education Ep. 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 11

The Consortium Podcast New 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 min

The Consortium Podcast How 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 min

The Consortium Podcast Interview 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 min

The Consortium Podcast Social 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 min

The Consortium Podcast Top 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 min

The Consortium Podcast Logic 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 min

The Consortium Podcast The 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 min $The Shepherd\'s Crook$

The Shepherd's Crook TSC Conversation: Joffre The GiantThanks for listening! I talked with Joffre Swait about life, manhood, and a bunch of current issues. This was fun! Find Joffre on Gab @joffrethegiant

2021-04-1534 min $The Shepherd\'s Crook$

2021-04-1534 min

The Consortium Podcast Visual 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 min

The Consortium Podcast The 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 min

The Consortium Podcast A 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 min

The Consortium Podcast Robots 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 min

The Consortium Podcast You'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 min

The Consortium Podcast The 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 min

The Consortium Podcast Ten 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 min

The Consortium Podcast Classical 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

Canon Calls Joffre Swait / The Media We ConsumeCheck out Wordsmithy today: https://canonpress.com/products/wordsmithy/

2020-12-2900 min

Canon Calls Poetry and the Good Life / Joffre SwaitThis week we got carried away on one of the three planned topics with Joffre Swait. Get Joffre's book of poems here https://www.amazon.com/Well-Met-Companionship-Joffre-Swait/dp/1684114500/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=joffre+swait&qid=1600725418&s=books&sr=1-2 , and our Introduction to Poetry from Canon Press here https://canonpress.com/products/the-roar-on-the-other-side/ .

2020-09-2200 min