
St. Brendan's Podcast
The St. Brendan's Podcast exists to equip you with rigorous, practicable, and affordable Christian education for many generations to come.
Episodes
9 episodes
St. Brendan's Founder's Episode: What Were We Thinking??
Have you ever wondered what was going through our heads as we ramped up to the start of our Classical Christian school? What could have dared us to take the risk? Maybe you find yourself in the same boat that we were, praying and pl...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:08:41

Rejecting Hypocrisy: Why Christian Education Must Maintain a Higher Purpose
Can a Christian education thrive without aiming at our ultimate Christian purpose? Or, as a practical consideration that pushes the antithesis more concretely, is it possible for a non-Christian to provide their child with a complete Ch...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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43:00

Redefining Success: The True Goal of Christian Education
If challenged to defend it in your own words, what would you claim is the "goal" of a bona fide Christian education? What are you hoping this education will achieve for your children?Will it land them a high paying job? Will it ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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56:32

Discipling Little Ones? Christian Education Requires Christian Teachers
Pastor Voddie Baucham was right when he warned us prophetically, "If you send your children to Caesar for their education, don't be surprised when they come back as Romans." Though, he was not foreseeing something unexpected or counter-intuitiv...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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42:42

Symbols of Sovereignty: Christian Education Flies The Christian Flag
Do you believe this to be true? Must Christian education fly the Christian flag?Of course, we don't mean this literally. The fabric you see flapping in the wind won't keep the bad guys out.But it does serve as a metapho...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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55:53

The Paideia of the Lord: An All-Encompassing Education for Your Child
When Paul uses the Greek word paideia in Ephesians 6:4, what did he mean? What is the paideia of the Lord? And how comprehensive was its scope?Well, it certainly wasn't minimalistic or truncated.God isn't only Lord of o...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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49:11

Neutrality Is a Myth: Education Must Impart a Distinctly Christian Lens
We're often deceived into thinking that if we just teach our kids the "right" answers, we will have done our job. Check. Complete. But instruction on the particulars is simply not enough. Otherwise, what happens once your kids move out ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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39:52

How to Pour a Christian Foundation for Education Amidst a Culture of Idolatry
How must we Christians educate our children amidst an idolatrous culture? Christianly, of course, but what does this really mean? Has that adjective become a useless platitude? It doesn't have to be.Our latest episode for the S...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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34:03

Public Schools Have Failed Us: A Call for Christian Education
Could the very state-run school system designed to educate our children be subverting the core values that Christian families hold dear? Kevin Love, headmaster at St. Brendan's Classical Christian Academy in Ogden, UT, helps navigate the treach...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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