Podcasts about worldview academy

Are we shaped more by culture than by God's view of the world? Do we think critically and biblically about entertainment and social media? Join Quin as he sits down with Micah Jordan from Worldview Academy as they explore the privilege and responsibility we have to think and live in accordance with a biblical worldview. Thank you for listening to the TeenPact Podcast. If you like the show, give us a five-star rating or leave a review! For more information about TeenPact Leadership Schools or to donate to our ministry, please visit teenpact.com. Have questions about today's episode? Email us at communications@teenpact.com.

Work isn't a necessary evil, and leisure isn't synonymous with idleness. These are just two of the myths busted in this episode. Mark talks to Worldview Academy executive director Mike Schutt about how thinking rightly about work and leisure help us improve the way we do both. Along the way, they roll their eyes as “work/life balance,” quibble with Aristotle, and explain why leisure sometimes requires a lot of, well, work.

Worldview thinking is a method of examining the underlying assumptions we all make in forming beliefs. In this episode, Mark talks with Worldview Academy co-founder Jeff Baldwin about an unexpected topic: the faith required to be a consistent atheist. We all take some things for granted, even those of us who claim to accept nothing on faith. This conversation will help you see that, and understand how it aids us in speaking with the self-professed “unbelievers” in our lives.

Bill Jack is an educator, a biblical worldview trainer, a dad, and a grandfather. He has spent his life raising his family, defending the faith, and promoting a Christian worldview. Bill has appeared on numerous national radio and television programs and is the producer of several apologetic and worldview training DVDs. He is a founder of Worldview Academy for young adults and a dear friend of mine, and today we're talking about all things related to culture, including the Barbie movie and why he thinks you may want to go take a look at it.  Show Notes: http://heidistjohn.com/blog/podcasts/biblical-worldview-bill-jack --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heidistjohn/message

In this enlightening episode of the Zan Tyler Podcast, Bill Jack, co-founder of Worldview Academy, delves into the practical aspects of leadership education. He also discusses the paramount importance of biblical worldview training in shaping tomorrow's servant leaders. Bill shares  personal anecdotes from his journey and offers a profound perspective on integrating faith and intellect. Parents, learn to incorporate these elements into your homeschool journey.SHOW NOTESzantyler.com/podcast/077-bill-jackLISTEN AND SUBSCRIBEJoin Zan Tyler and a special guest each week for real encouragement, engaging stories, and practical wisdom for surviving and thriving on the homeschool journey.YouTube: https://bit.ly/3ZjfXnWApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3QmTyC3Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3vLipG2CONNECT WITH ZAN & FOLLOW HER ON SOCIALWebsite: https://zantyler.com/podcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/zan_tyler_podcastFacebook: https://facebook.com/ZanTylerHomeschoolTikTok: https://tiktok.com/@thezantylerpodcastHomeschoolers Unleashing Leadership Skills and Biblical Thinking | Bill Jack | Ep. 077

In this episode, Mark speaks to Worldview Academy co-founder Jeff Baldwin about work, risk, and the sense of calling. A longtime friend, Jeff takes a unique approach to risk, and as provost of Worldview at the Abbey, he's counseled many young people at the start of their professional lives on how to pursue excellence and faithfulness in their work. Mark asks about the role of providence and not hedging your bets, as well as the virtue of endurance.

Mike Schutt is the Executive Director at Worldview Academy, a Kingdom leadership training for young adults. If you ever thought of summer camp for your older kids, or perhaps you haven't considered it before, take a listen. You might want to add this to your prayer list. This next generation needs all the support and mentorship they can get and Worldview Academy is an incredible place for family to get equipped to take a stand against the wiles of the enemies agendas and how to implement spiritual warfare strategies that will prepare and even confirm what you have raised them to stand in! A very encouraging episode for the next generation! Discover where the nearest camp is to you and strategize how to get your older kids invested and postioined at Worldview Academy here! Take a listen to Mike Schutt's amazing podcast, Mindset Don't forget to check out our Parenting & Guest Toolbox for more guest offers and access!

Bill Jack is a co-founder of Worldview Academy, and a freedom loving patriot. Last year, he ran for a state house seat in Colorado and today, he joins me to talk about jurisdiction and the responsibilities of everyday citizens to stand in defense of liberty. SHOW NOTES --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heidistjohn/message

Season 2, Episode 7 [Acts 2:37-41] w/ Mike Tiland Join Chad and his guest Mike Tiland, Camp Director of Worldview Academy, as they consider the response to Peter's sermon, which he preached immediately after receiving the promised Holy Spirit. To learn more about Worldview Academy visit: www.worldview.org IF you want to support the podcast you can buy me a cup of coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/takeandread or https://www.buymeacoffee.com/takeandread/membership Sponsors / Resources: Click to support: https://22beans.com/ Click to follow: https://www.instagram.com/takeandreadpastor

Season 2, Episode 6 [Acts 2:14-36] w/ Mike Schutt Join Chad and his guest Mike Schutt, Executive Director of Worldview Academy, as they consider Peter's sermon, which he preached immediately after receiving the promised Holy Spirit. To learn more about Worldview Academy visit: www.worldview.org IF you want to support the podcast you can buy me a cup of coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/takeandread or https://www.buymeacoffee.com/takeandread/membership Sponsors / Resources: Click to support: https://22beans.com/ Click to follow: https://www.instagram.com/takeandreadpastor

Mentioned in this episode:Mindset, a new podcast from Worldview Academy

My good friend Bill Jack, founder of Worldview Academy, is joining me on the podcast today. We're continuing our conversation from yesterday and talking about why Christians need to take it to the max. Listen in friends, you'll be encouraged! SHOW NOTES --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/support

My good friend Bill Jack, founder of Worldview Academy, is joining me on the podcast today. We're talking about the future of free speech and why it matters to every American. Listen in friends, you'll be encouraged! SHOW NOTES [Don't miss the second part of our conversation tomorrow!] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/support

What is virtue, and why is it important? Join Jim Mason (HSLDA President) and Mike Schutt (Worldview Academy Executive Director) as they tackle difficult questions about foundational topics. They discuss the importance of developing a concrete worldview based on transcendent values while also examining the trendy alternatives.    “Working with high school students, you just see the shifts in culture. I've been teaching high school students at Worldview Academy for 20 years, and you see sort of a decline in biblical literacy, a different approach to authority, and the primacy of feelings. The first place we need to start is, ‘Okay, who are we? What does it mean to be a human person? And how do we know what our purpose is?'”—Mike Schutt 

I have the most special guest today, my 15-year old daughter, Lena! Lena is going to share how she's used the 4 Simple Tools for Brain Surgery in real-life conversations to have a discussion with someone who believes differently than she does about certain topics. I can't wait for you to hear it! To learn more about TeenPact: www.teenpact.com To learn more about Bill Jack & Worldview Academy: www.worldview.org When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it! Special thank you to our sponsors, Classical Conversations! Interested in homeschooling? For more than 25 years, Classical Conversations has equipped parents just like you with the support and tools to home educate. Start your journey today and find your local Classical Conversations community of homeschool families at www.classicalconversations.com/gibbens. Send me any questions, comments or even the fallacies you're seeing around you! think@filteritthroughabraincell.com Or, tag me on Instagram: @filteritthroughabraincell Sign up for notifications: www.filteritthroughabraincell.com

In this 4-part series, I'm giving you 4 tools you can use to help other people begin to start filtering their ideas through a brain cell! To learn more about TeenPact: www.teenpact.com To learn more about Bill Jack & Worldview Academy: www.worldview.org When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it! Special thank you to our sponsors, Classical Conversations! Interested in homeschooling? For more than 25 years, Classical Conversations has equipped parents just like you with the support and tools to home educate. Start your journey today and find your local Classical Conversations community of homeschool families at www.classicalconversations.com/gibbens. Send me any questions, comments or even the fallacies you're seeing around you! think@filteritthroughabraincell.com Or, tag me on Instagram: @filteritthroughabraincell Sign up for notifications: www.filteritthroughabraincell.com

In this 4-part series, I'm giving you 4 tools you can use to help other people begin to start filtering their ideas through a brain cell! To learn more about TeenPact: www.teenpact.com To learn more about Bill Jack & Worldview Academy: www.worldview.org When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it! Special thank you to our sponsors, Classical Conversations! Interested in homeschooling? For more than 25 years, Classical Conversations has equipped parents just like you with the support and tools to home educate. Start your journey today and find your local Classical Conversations community of homeschool families at www.classicalconversations.com/gibbens. Send me any questions, comments or even the fallacies you're seeing around you! think@filteritthroughabraincell.com Or, tag me on Instagram: @filteritthroughabraincell Sign up for notifications: www.filteritthroughabraincell.com

The 2nd Simple Tool for Brain Surgery will get the other person to consider the credibility of the authority they're looking to for the ideas & beliefs they're holding. To learn more about TeenPact: www.teenpact.com To learn more about Bill Jack & Worldview Academy: www.worldview.org When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it! Special thank you to our sponsors, Classical Conversations! Interested in homeschooling? For more than 25 years, Classical Conversations has equipped parents just like you with the support and tools to home educate. Start your journey today and find your local Classical Conversations community of homeschool families at www.classicalconversations.com/gibbens. Send me any questions, comments or even the fallacies you're seeing around you! think@filteritthroughabraincell.com Or, tag me on Instagram: @filteritthroughabraincell Sign up for notifications: www.filteritthroughabraincell.com

In this 4-part series, I'm giving you 4 tools you can use to help other people begin to start filtering their ideas through a brain cell! To learn more about TeenPact: www.teenpact.com To learn more about Bill Jack & Worldview Academy: www.worldview.org When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it! Special thank you to our sponsors, Classical Conversations! Interested in homeschooling? For more than 25 years, Classical Conversations has equipped parents just like you with the support and tools to home educate. Start your journey today and find your local Classical Conversations community of homeschool families at www.classicalconversations.com/gibbens. Send me any questions, comments or even the fallacies you're seeing around you! think@filteritthroughabraincell.com Or, tag me on Instagram: @filteritthroughabraincell Sign up for notifications: www.filteritthroughabraincell.com

My guest today is Mike Schutt, Executive Director of the Worldview Academy. Mike has been thinking, writing, and consulting on worldview formation for over 30 years, including helping law students bring their worldview into the practice of law. His thoughts on worldview and Law have been published in his Redeeming Law: Christian Calling and the Legal Profession (InterVarsity Press, 2007). In this podcast we discuss: What a worldview is Why it is so important to understand worldviews The benefits of living according to the biblical worldview How Mike discovered the importance of worldviews during college  How worldview issues permeate all university classes Ways Christian students have faltered due to not understanding worldviews (especially related to views of knowledge and truth)  How we are shaped by our culture's worldview, often without knowing it The main worldviews we should understand Understanding worldview as both ideas and loves The relationship of worldview to our actions, wisdom and flourishing Why Christian students struggle so much with the scientific naturalist worldview How to evaluate worldviews and develop a robust and consistent biblical worldview Three simple questions to evalue any worldview claim made in classes or conversations The relationship between spiritual disciplines and living out the biblical worldview Ways your local church can help you develop your worldview Two questions to ask others in your church (or on campus) to find worldview mentors (and eventually mentor others) Why the Christian worldview is superior to all others Ways students can more fully live out their Christian worldview Changing ways students are interacting with Scripture Resources mentioned during our conversation: Albert Wolters, Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview James Sire, The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog Worldview Academy “How to Watch a Movie, Using Top Gun: Maverick as an Example,” College Faith podcast #23 with Drew Trotter James K. A. Smith, You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit C.S. Lewis, “Meditation in a Toolshed” C.S. Lewis, Transposition and Other Addresses Stand to Reason J.F. Baldwin, The Deadliest Monster: An Introduction to Worldviews J. Mark Bertrand, (Re)thinking Worldview: Learning to Live, Think, and Speak in the World Hearts and Mind Books Ashworth, Becker, et al., A Book for Hearts & Minds: What You Should Read and Why Nancy Pearcy, Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcy, How Now Shall We Live? J.P. Moreland, Love Your God With All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul Gene Veith, God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life Gene Veith, Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture Carl Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution Carl Trueman, Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution

In this episode, Mark talks to Cameron about an upcoming talk he's going to give for Worldview Academy. The topic is “Creative Christians in a Cancel Culture.” It's a conversation aimed at helping Christians with creative gifts think about how to make a worthwhile and faithful contribution to the world. Mentioned in this episode:Creative Christians in a Cancel Culture (Worldview Academy)

In this episode Jeff Baldwin and August Huckabee discuss some upcoming events at Worldview Academy, tie up their previous discussion on freedom of religion, and dive into scripture surrounding today's tension rugged individualism in a collectivist trending culture

My good friend Bill Jack, founder of Worldview Academy, is joining me on the podcast today. We're talking about why words and the language we use matters. Listen in friends, you'll be encouraged! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/support

What are the top four problems facing the Christian community? On today’s episode, Bill Jack, one of the founders of Worldview Academy, will provide the answers.  Worldview Academy was founded in 1996. Twenty-four years and over 42,000 students later, Worldview Academy’s mission is still the same: to train Christians to think and live in accord with a biblical worldview. Christian parents are losing their children to the world in record numbers. Most Gen X, Gen Z, and Millennials now consider themselves religious nones – having no church affiliation. The trend is alarming. A Gallup poll showed that Americans' membership in houses of worship is declining, rapidly dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend. America is becoming more secular and following the trends of western Europe and the UK.  See Gallup poll HERE: https://rb.gy/qegxpb  Please watch, listen, and share! The Mark Harrington Show is on Mark’s Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube accounts. Mark’s show is broadcast on America Family Radio’s 180 stations and Salem Radio on Saturday in Ohio. The podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Spotify, and all the popular podcast platforms as well as on Mark’s flagship website: MarkHarringtonShow.com  Facebook Personal - https://www.facebook.com/MarkCreatedEqual Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/TheMarkHarringtonShow/ Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Vy6WFo8v8lNi1MtV4cbKw Twitter - https://twitter.com/mharringtonlive iTunes – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/activist-radio-the-mark-harrington-show/id827982678 Google Podcasts - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9jcmVhdGVkZXF1YWwucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vZmVlZC8 Website - https://markharrington.org Podbean - https://createdequal.podbean.com

Today we will be having a discussion with Jeff Baldwin on Leisure and what it looks like to rest well in today's culture of achievement and constant distraction. Hope you enjoy. The Radio Worldview podcast exists to facilitate discussion on how to apply a biblical worldview to every aspect of culture. If you have any questions you would like us to answer or topics you would like us to address, you can email me at august@worldview.org.  Put Podcast in the subject line and we'll get to everything we can that is sent in to us.      For more information about our Worldview Academy leadership camps visit www.worldview.org, and for more information about our one-year program for college freshmen students, visit www.worldviewbridgeyear.com. 

Volume 4 of "Small Brains on Big Books" features Drew Nelson and Mike Schutt discussing Beowulf. You'll love this discussion, even if you didn't love Beowulf in High School.  Andrew Nelson is preacher at Southside Church of Christ in Mount Pleasant Texas, and Mike Schutt is the host of Cross and Gavel audio, Executive Director of Worldview Academy, and Clinical Associate Professor at Trinity Law School.

Is a Christian ever called to engage in civil disobedience? I’ll ask this question and more in the 2nd half of my interview with Bill Jack, founder of Worldview Academy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/support

Is a Christian ever called to engage in civil disobedience? I’ll ask this question and more in the 2nd half of my interview with Bill Jack, founder of Worldview Academy. **Find links and more under PODCASTS at HeidiStJohn.com** --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/support

Hosted by August Huckabee. Today I'll be having a discussion with Mike Schutt on what's new with Worldview.Mike is the new Executive Director of Worldview Academy and we'll be discussing him in that role as well as things both Worldview Academy and Worldview at the Abbey have coming in future months. The Radio Worldview podcast exists to facilitate discussion on how to apply a biblical worldview to every aspect of culture. If you have any questions you would like us to answer or topics you would like us to address, you can email me at august@worldview.org.  Put Podcast in the subject line and we'll get to everything we can that is sent in to us.      

My guest today says, “If we don’t have liberty for all, we have liberty for none.” Bill Jack is right on as he’s encouraging Christians that it is indeed acceptable to know what our liberties are how to stand in them and live in obedience to our Higher Authority, established in the Bible. We are a government of the people, by the people, for the people, and we need the courage to live like it in these challenging and confusing times. Today’s Scripture Writing Challenge Verse * Hebrews 1:1-3 Resources Mentioned In Podcast * Worldview Academy All Things Heidi * Subscribed to my newsletter and podcast emails! * LearnAtHome.today * See all events here * MomStrong International * Sample Bible Study Week and Cursive Copywork.  * To see the Manuscript of the Copywork and the Scripture Writing schedule, sign up at MomStrong International  for a FREE account to gain access! * Bible Study kicks off the first Monday of each month. * Scripture Writing kicks off the first day of every month. * Speaking Requests * Submit your questions to MailBox Monday * Essential Oils * Shop my Amazon Store * My Books: Becoming MomStrong | MomStrong Bible Study | Prayers for the Battlefield | Bible Promises for Moms | Becoming MomStrong Journal Write to Heidi: Heidi St. John c/o Firmly Planted Family 11100 NE 34th Cir, Vancouver, WA 98682 Support this ministry by donating through E-giving. You can also send donations to: 1100 NE34th Cir, Vancouver, WA 98682 Join us at MomStrong International for our newest Bible Study and Scripture Writing! Submit your questions to MailBox Monday. Bill Jack is an educator with ten years of experience in secular schools and 14 years with The Caleb Campaign, a creationist youth ministry. Bill is the faculty adviser for Worldview Academy and a full time faculty member for Worldview at the Abbey, an academic bridge year program that seeks to fully equip students to be salt and light on the college campus. Appearing on several radio and television programs, Bill’s passion is to raise up a generation of students who have the vision to reach their culture with the gospel, the valor to engage their culture with the truth, and a firm reliance on the virtue of the Word of God. Bill and his wife, Tabby, who went to be with the Lord in 2019, have three children. Bill makes his home in Castle Rock, CO. Connect with Worldview Academy: Website |

Pastor Mark Bertrand has turned to the Psalms for his sermon texts during the global pandemic, and he joins Mike Schutt to discuss insights and encouragement from this rich source. You'll be encouraged as Mark explores how the "Songbook of the Church" speaks to us about lessons in crisis, sources of hope in trial, and the joys inherent in the life of faith. J. Mark Bertrand is the pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He is also a novelist and author, and he teaches on the Worldview Academy faculty. His crime noir works are Back on Murder, Pattern of Wounds,and Nothing to Hide. His book [Re]Thinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in this World (Crossway 2007) is a great primer on Christian thought and action. He blogs at the world-renowned Bible Design Blog, sharing thoughts and photos on a multitude of design issues. His real claim to fame is that he was interviewed by Ken Myers on Mars Hill Audio Journal, volume 90, which also features Mike Schutt discussing Redeeming Law.  Mark was also a guest on Episode 46 of Cross & Gavel, one of the most popular episodes in the podcast's history. More recently, he joined Mike to discuss the "New Moralism" in Episode 70 and law and government on Episode 73.  Cross and Gavel is a project of Trinity Law School and Christian Legal Society.

Last summer my daughter, heard about a camp called Worldview Academy while listening with me to the Heidi St. John podcast. She and I both immediately felt that this camp would be perfect for her and she begin working in various capacities to pay for her tuition. That camp changed her life. I do not say that lightly. I dropped off a teenage girl and picked up a young lady who was even stronger in her faith than she was before.  Because of this change that I saw in my daughter, I reached out to Worldview to see if they would chat with me about raising teens in a time where the Christian culture is highly under attack. Today, I am chatting with Michael DeGroat about the following things:  Our culture, and what it is like raising Christian teens in today’s times. What are some things you are seeing facing our teens? As homeschool parents, what can we do to prepare our teens for this spiritually declining climate?  We have been told by Christian leaders in our community that the best place for our kids is in public schools so they can be the salt and the light. How would you respond to this? What are some ways that homeschoolers and teens today can be the salt and the light in their communities? How can Worldview help prepare our teens to be leaders in a culture that seems to be against Christianity right now? At the time of this recording, Worldview was still planning on having camps. You can use link http://worldview.org/joy to get $100 off your registration for Worldview Academy. Shownotes:  https://www.findingjoyinthejourney.net/raising-teens/ Podcast Sponsor Minno use code JOURNEY for a free trial

Back in 2015, the state legislature of Montana created a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for individuals who donate to organizations that provide scholarships to private school students. In response, the Montana Department of Revenue ruled that such a tax credit would violate the state's version of the “Blaine Amendment,” which prohibits state funding of religious education. So, the state terminated the program altogether. Kendra Espinoza, a single mom who works extra jobs in order to send her kids to a Christian school in Kalispell, challenged the Department of Revenue's ruling in court. The case is currently on the Supreme Court's docket for this term. During oral arguments, conservative justices like Alito and Kavanaugh brought up the Court's decision in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer, which held that forcing a church school to choose between “[participating] in an otherwise available benefit program or [remaining] a religious institution” violated the Free Exercise clause. Unsurprisingly, the liberal justices disagreed. What was surprising is that the editorial board of the Washington Post came out on the side of Espinoza. Using scholarships at private, religious schools was not only a parent's right, the editorial board wrote, but using them didn't “undermine” or “harm” public education or the state, “contrary to many of the tropes advanced by those opposed to school choice.” The Post also called out the hypocrisy of upper-middle class opponents to these kinds of programs by noting that, “People with means take for granted the ability to choose their child's school by paying tuition or moving to communities with quality schools.”  So why begrudge people like Kendra Espinoza the same opportunity? It's not often I find myself in complete agreement with the editorial board of the Washington Post! I'm old enough to remember when the very existence of Christian educational alternatives was threatened by government entities. Oh yeah, we all are old enough…such threats are still very much a reality, especially in California. The truth is, government-imposed ideologies, especially so-called SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identity) legislation, very much threaten the future of Christian educational institutions. Still, I hold a great hope for their futures, and not only because this crucial Montana case is being heard in our recently remade Supreme Court. It's because Christians are currently bringing an incredible amount of innovation and creativity to the realm of education. In a Christianity Today article last August, Louis Markos described a home-schooling co-op in Kentucky that not only is “steeped in the Great Books,” but whose purpose is to glorify God, free “the mind(s) of students from the marketplace of idols,” and shape them into “virtuous, morally self-regulating citizens.” Across the country, innovative classical schools like this one are exploding, some in the form of homeschool co-ops, others in the form of private and charter schools. Many private Christian schools today are thriving, some who have made the difficult but sound transition from only existing to keep kids sheltered from culture to effectively preparing them to engage the culture. Also, excellent para-educational options abound, from the outstanding conferences for high-shoolers and college students offered by Summit Ministries, Worldview Academy, and Impact 360 to graduate and post-graduate training such as the John Jay Institute and ADF's Blackstone Legal Fellowship. All of these point to a real rejuvenation in Christian education, and we are seeing their fruit. Time and again, I meet Christian secondary students who are running their own businesses, digging much-needed wells for communities in Africa, or fighting to save preborn lives or victims of sex trafficking. I recently talked to a Christian school administrator who is actively seeking innovative ways to make sure that single moms, like Kendra Espinoza, can afford private Christian education for their children. These believers are joining Christianity's historic role in advancing education and taking the lead in solving our nation's educational problems. Historically, Christians have seen education as a gift we can best offer, not only to our own, but to the world, as a vehicle to knowing God and to promoting human flourishing. I'm not certain how the Court will decide the Montana case, but I do see reasons for optimism no matter what the justices decide. How refreshing. These days, that kind of optimism can be as rare as agreeing with the Washington Post.

What can parents to do equip their children to be salt and light in the culture today?  The answer may surprise you! Join me as I talk with my friend Bill Jack about the importance of parents taking the role of primary educators in the lives of their kids. Let’s get off the bench and onto the battlefield! Transcribed version of the podcast is below Today’s Scripture Writing Challenge Verse * Colossians 3:21-24 Resources Mentioned in Podcast * My peaking Events * Worldview Academy (100 * AFHE  * The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolf * Cultural Engagement by Joshua Chatraw and Karen Swallow Prior * Standing Up to Goliath by Rebecca Friedrichs Scripture Mentioned in Podcast * 1 Corinthians 16:13 * Colossians 2:8 * Jude 3 * Hebrews 12:2 * 3 John 1:4 * Matthew 18 * 1 Corinthians 5 * Romans 13 * Ecclesiastes 9:13 -16 Join us at MomStrong International for our newest Bible Study and Scripture Writing! Submit your questions to MailBox Monday: podcast@thebusymom.com Bill Jack is an educator with ten years of experience in secular schools and 14 years with The Caleb Campaign, a creationist youth ministry. Bill is the faculty adviser for Worldview Academy and a full time faculty member for Worldview at the Abbey, an academic bridge year program that seeks to fully equip students to be salt and light on the college campus. Appearing on several radio and television programs, Bill’s passion is to raise up a generation of students who have the vision to reach their culture with the gospel, the valor to engage their culture with the truth, and a firm reliance on the virtue of the Word of God. Bill and his wife, Tabby, have three children and live in Castle Rock, Colorado. Connect with Worldview Academy: Website | Facebook | Email Bill Jack at BillJack4987@gmail.com Don’t Miss These! TRANSCRIPTION: Hey everybody, this is Heidi St John. Welcome to the Heidi St. John podcast. Today is Friday, July 19th. It is meet my friend Friday, and you guys know how much I love Worldview Academy and Bill Jack. I’m thrilled because Bill Jack is on the show with me today. We’re going to be talking about all things faith and culture. Stick around, I think you’re going to be encouraged. Alright, so thanks for tuning into the podcast, everybody. We’ve got a great show lined up for you today. I want to remind you of a couple of things before I get started. First of all, I am actually in Phoenix this weekend for the AFHE conference. If you’re anywhere near Phoenix, which I don’t actually know why you would be at this time of year, but if you are— come down that convention center, cool off, and get fired up to get off the bench and onto the battlefield. I’ll be talking about the culture. I’m keynoting that event. So I’ll be speaking twice as the keynote. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/support

Is your teen ready for the culture? Could your teen withstand the pressure to conform to a secular worldview? Join me today for part two of an encouraging, empowering interview with my friend, Bill Jack of Worldview Academy. Bill‘s message is a much needed wake up call for this generation of Christians. It’s time to get off the bench and onto the battlefield.  It’s time to engage the culture with truth and grace—and with God’s help, you can! Join us at MomStrong International for our newest Bible Study and Scripture Writing! Submit your questions to MailBox Monday: podcast@thebusymom.com Bill Jack is an educator with ten years of experience in secular schools and 14 years with The Caleb Campaign, a creationist youth ministry. Bill is the faculty advisor for Worldview Academy and a full time faculty member for Worldview at the Abbey, an academic bridge year program that seeks to fully equip students to be salt and light on the college campus. Appearing on several radio and television programs, Bill’s passion is to raise up a generation of students who have the vision to reach their culture with the gospel, the valor to engage their culture with the truth, and a firm reliance on the virtue of the Word of God. Bill and his wife, Tabby, have three children and live in Castle Rock, Colorado. Connect with Worldview Academy: Website | Facebook SPECIAL OFFER: First time Worldview Academy students a promo of $100 off full-camp tuition by using the code HEIDI at registration. (online or via phone).  www.worldview.org/Heidi Don’t Miss These! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/support

Is your teen ready for the culture? Could your teen withstand the pressure to conform to a secular worldview? Join me today for part one of an encouraging, empowering interview with my friend, Bill Jack of Worldview Academy. Bill’s message is a much needed wake up call for this generation of Christians. Get off the bench! It’s time to engage the culture with truth and grace—and with God’s help, you can! Join us at MomStrong International for our newest Bible Study and Scripture Writing! Submit your questions to MailBox Monday: podcast@thebusymom.com Bill Jack is an educator with ten years of experience in secular schools and 14 years with The Caleb Campaign, a creationist youth ministry. Bill is the faculty advisor for Worldview Academy and a full time faculty member for Worldview at the Abbey, an academic bridge year program that seeks to fully equip students to be salt and light on the college campus. Appearing on several radio and television programs, Bill’s passion is to raise up a generation of students who have the vision to reach their culture with the gospel, the valor to engage their culture with the truth, and a firm reliance on the virtue of the Word of God. Bill and his wife, Tabby, have three children and live in Castle Rock, Colorado. Connect with Worldview Academy: Website | Facebook SPECIAL OFFER: First time Worldview Academy students a promo of $100 off full-camp tuition by using the code HEIDI at registration. (online or via phone).  www.worldview.org/Heidi Don’t Miss These! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/support

On the 80th episode of Cross & Gavel, August Huckabee, economics professor at Worldview at the Abbey in Colorado, returns ("Feel the Bern," Ep. 52) to discuss cultural trends and countermeasures in these strange times. August teaches students at the Abbey, directs TeenPact programs around the country, and lectures at Worldview Academy. Host Mike Schutt asks him about trends he is seeing in this generation and what educators and parents might do to cultivate both courage and grace in the face of the challenges facing people of faith as they both engage and create culture. Join the conversation and pass it on to friends! You'll be encouraged and edified by the conversation.  If you'd like to learn more about Worldview Academy or Worldview at the Abbey, follow the links.  Here are some of the books Huck and Mike discuss on this episode. Visit our friends at Hearts & Minds Books to order: F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom Burton W. Folsom, The Myth of the Robber Barons Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom Cross & Gavel is a project of Regent University School of Law and Christian Legal Society. 

It may be commonplace to say that God has instituted various governments and has delegated His authority to them in various ways, but speaking, for example, about the "government" of a family seems strange today. And even a bit scary. Mark Bertrand says that we in the Church are pretty good at targeting failures of government when it comes to the state, but we need to do a much better job of thinking about governing well in the church and the family. What might that look like? How to think well about it? And who says, anyway? At one point, Mark suggests that listeners might be shouting "Hey, these guys are advocating theocracy! Or a bunch of little theocracies within a theocracy!" Are they?  Listen in and find out. Join Mark and C&G host Mike Schutt as they talk at length about the authority and roles of various governments in today's world and the resources available to help them govern well. Would the state be changed if other institutions-- family, church, state, corporations, universities-- were governed well? Are these governments dependent on one another? Walk through the discussion with them as they suggest that what the Bible envisions is "a community of governments with overlapping authority . . . all backstopped by divine revelation." We think you'll find this an encouraging and informative discussion.  J. Mark Bertrand is a novelist and pastor living in South Dakota. His crime noir works are Back on Murder, Pattern of Wounds, and Nothing to Hide. His book [Re]Thinking Worldview:Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in this World (Crossway 2007) is a great primer on Christian thought and action, and he serves on the faculty of Worldview Academy. He blogs at the world-renowned Bible Design Blog, sharing thoughts and photos on a multitude of design issues. His initial claim to fame was that he was interviewed by Ken Myers on Mars Hill Audio Journal, volume 90, which also features Mike Schutt talking about Redeeming Law.  Mark was also a guest on Episode 46 of Cross & Gavel, the most downloaded episode in the podcast's history. More recently, he joined Mike to discuss the "New Moralism" in Episode 70.  Cross and Gavel is a project of Regent University School of Law and Christian Legal Society. We value your comments. And if you enjoy the show, please rate us on iTunes.  

Student Profile Simon Sefzik: - His involvement with NCFCA, the NRA, and Worldview Academy summer camps before coming to classes - current texts students are reading through - a rundown on the most recent house competition, the Pumpkin Carving Games Nathan Pegors: - Things have natures and how that is being brought out through current classroom readings

Mark Bertrand says that the world he "had been led to fear growing up in the Church is not actually the world we live in." It turns out that the moral relativism that we feared would turn the world to anarchy and chaos never materialized. Much of what we feared actually came to pass, just not in the way we thought it would. The new world has turned out to be a world that loves "the social gospel, but without the gospel," to paraphrase Joseph Bottum.  Mark talks with host Mike Schutt about this strange turn of events. We now live in the midst of "an irreligious culture" that still "behaves in fundamentally religious ways." As Mark says, "The moralist of today is the irreligious offspring of the mainline Protestants who dominated the society of yesteryear." How did we get here, and what are thoughtful Christians to make of this state of affairs? It seems the best way to respond to the New Moralism is likely not to return to the Old Moralism. But what role does the Church have to play in all of this?   J. Mark Bertrand is a novelist and pastor living in South Dakota. His crime noir works are Back on Murder, Pattern of Wounds, and Nothing to Hide. His book [Re]Thinking Worldview:Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in this World (Crossway 2007) is a great primer on Christian thought and action, and he serves on the faculty of Worldview Academy. He blogs at the world-renowned Bible Design Blog, sharing thoughts and photos on a multitude of design issues. His initial claim to fame was that he was interviewed by Ken Myers on Mars Hill Audio Journal, volume 90, which also features Mike Schutt talking about Redeeming Law.  Mark was also a guest on Episode 46 of Cross & Gavel, the most downloaded episode in the podcast's history.  Cross and Gavel is a project of Regent University School of Law and Christian Legal Society. We value your comments. And if you enjoy the show, please rate us on iTunes. 

In our first fall episode of Cross & Gavel, Worldview at the Abbey Provost Jeff Baldwin discusses the duty of the Church and Christian families with respect to education. The conversation ranges from the role of the family to the religious nature of education itself, and then on to some of the problems inherent in state-sponsored education. Jeff tells host Mike Schutt that he thinks this may be "the most inflammatory episode of C&G to date," and he then sets the tone by suggesting that Christian parents should not think of their children as "salt and light" in the public schools until they are at least sixteen. Listen in as Mike and Jeff discuss education, worldview, and the Christian family.  Jeff Baldwin is the author of The Deadliest Monster, founding faculty at Worldview Academy, and provost of the Worldview Academy bridge year program, Worldview at the Abbey in Canon City, CO.  Cross & Gavel is a project of Regent University School of Law and the Christian Legal Society. Host Mike Schutt is Associate Professor at Regent Law and director of Law Student Ministries for CLS.   

Listen to Founder of Worldview Academy and Political Science Professor Dr. Todd Kent speak on the current situation with Syria, and different questions to be asked and answered by Christians in light of the situation.

Does it matter how we "experience" the the Bible? Do we encounter it as a reference work, in which we look up stuff, or as a text in which to immerse ourselves? C&G guest Mark Bertrand believes that these are important questions. Bertrand says that the Bible involves one of the most important-- and most challenging-- design projects in history. Design decisions create or remove barriers to entering into the text, and often traditional design choices actually hinder our reading and interpretation. These are significant  issues, to say the least. Join Mark and host Mike Schutt as they discuss Bible design and its implications, and you'll find out, among other things, whether St. Paul will be offended if we remove the verse numbers from our Bibles, whether Jesus actually spoke only in red, and whether you are more holy if you read the Bible on see-through pages. J. Mark Bertrand is a novelist living in South Dakota. His crime noir works are Back on Murder, Pattern of Wounds, and Nothing to Hide. His book [Re]Thinking Worldview is a great primer on Christian thought and action, and he serves on the faculty of Worldview Academy. He blogs at the world-renowned Bible Design Blog, sharing thoughts and photos on a multitude of design issues. His initial claim to fame was that he was interviewed by Ken Myers on Mars Hill Audio Journal, volume 90, which also features Mike Schutt talking about Redeeming Law.  Mike Schutt is host of Cross & Gavel Audio, a project of the Christian Legal Society and Trinity Law School.