Liberty has always carried tricky questions with it.   Most folks in 2025 would agree that human beings should have liberty, but how one becomes free persists as a debate. …

Among education writers, the phrase “critical thinking” can run from nebulous notions to utter ciphers. Few will disagree that critical thinking is good and needed, but relatively few will agree…

What is education for? The oldest grand library of which I have any knowledge is the tablet-collection of the Assyrian emperor Ashurbanipal, and as far as I can tell, it’s…

Teachers online have been commenting on, panicking over, and offering verdicts on the advent of ChatGPT for about six months, so I figure I’ve waited long enough to write something…

Stream or download this episode In today’s episode, Coyle talks to Jonathan Marks about his new book Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education.

Stream or Download this Episode You’ve downloaded an episode of Christian Humanist Profiles, so the odds are more than fair that you’ve read some Shakespeare, watched some Shakespeare, perhaps performed…

In this episode, the Book of Nature crew revisit the paths they took on their vocational journeys, and discuss the challenges and rewards of pursuing work as teachers of science. …

Download or Stream this Episode Today, Coyle and Ed talk about the institution of tenure at colleges and universities–its role at colleges, universities and society at large; arguments for and…

Download or Stream this Episode “At this level, at the college level, there are no single, simple formula that will tell you the best way to proceed.  You must become…

The University we need... but maybe not the one we deserve.

Introductions Listener Mail Knowing Controversies surrounding the 2016 film Our experiences of the 1984 film Did we like the remake? Reading Violet Ramis Stiel on Ghostbusters Chaz Ebert on Ghostbusters…

This week I got to be a bit more of a Pietist schoolman again, as we considered how a Pietist ethos would shape education at several levels. Things started with Sam and…

Download or Stream this Episode At the Christian colleges where I’ve taught, the question “Where did you go to school” sometimes brings tension as much as information.  In evangelical circles…

Download or Stream This Episode Unleashing Opportunity from Falls City Press Brit Stack and Stephanie Summers sit down to talk about what everyday people can do to fight poverty and expand…

Download or Stream this Episode David Grubbs leads Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer in a discussion of Dorothy L. Sayers’s “The Lost Tools of Learning.”