The Consortium: A Journal of Classical Christian Education is currently accepting submissions for the Summer 2023 issue which will focus on beauty and wonder. The Consortium is a semiannual (June & December) academic journal promoting classical Christian education and fostering human flourishing for generations to come. Article submissions should be between 2000-6000 words; book reviews should be between 800-1500 words. Submission deadline for the summer issue is March 1, 2023. Please include a short bio …
Author: Scott Postma
This is Episode 43 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog sponsored by Kepler Education. In this episode, Brent Pinkall, a lecturer in rhetoric at New St. Andrews College and author of the new book, Redeeming the Six Arts: A Christian Approach to Chinese Classical Education joins Scott Postma to talk about the characteristics of the six classical Chinese arts and how they relate to the Western liberal arts. Brent argues that classical Christian …
This is Episode 42 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog sponsored by Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott Postma talks with Dante Scholar, Joe Carlson, about his new translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Joe is a graduate of New St Andrews College, in Moscow, ID, completed his MA and is now pursuing PhD in Literature at the University of Dallas. He is married to Jen, they have one son, Joseph Benaiah, and prior …
This is Episode 41 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog sponsored by Kepler Education. In this episode, Dr. Mike Wilhelm joins Scott Postma to talk about the Great Books and the life of the mind, ministering to youth as the senior chaplain at a residential child care facility, and the Iona Project—a quasi-neo-monastic gap-year opportunity for college graduates. Dr. Wilhelm is the senior chaplain at Cal Farley Boys Ranch near Amarillo, TX. Cal Farley Boys …
This is Episode 40 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog sponsored by Kepler Education. In this episode, Dr. Junius Johnson joins Scott Postma to talk about Liberal Arts Education, Great Books, Fantasy, and redeeming the human Imagination. Dr. Johnson is a Yale-trained, independent scholar of theology, philosophy, and literature who devotes his time to thinking and writing about whatever is good, noble, and excellent, and how to bring these things to bear to …
This is Episode 39 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog sponsored by Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott Postma talks with Carrie Eben, a classical educator and the founding consultant at Classical Eben. Carrie was introduced to classical education and Douglas Wilson’s book Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning in 1999 when she began working at St. Augustine’s Classical School in Tulsa. Since then, she has provided a classical education for her children in both private, …