Passing On Good Patterns to Children by Working Side by Side with Sophia Perrin
What do children remember most?
Podcasts
Conversations That Help You Live and Lead Wisely
Explore real stories of families and schools pursuing wisdom, virtue, and meaningful education.
Where to Begin
Selected episodes that capture the vision of a truly human education
The Effort of a Lifetime: Craft, Restoration, and Mentoring with Alfred Lohmann
What does it take to make something that will still be standing in a hundred years?
Preparation and Fulfillment: The Family and the Christian Imagination
What if composing a meaningful life begins not with finding the perfect routine, but with learning to love and practice the good things already in front of us?
Podcast Series
Dive deeper into the ideas driving the renewal of classical education
Composed: Timeless Ways of Living
In this podcast, author and poet Christine Perrin interviews women (and some men) to discover how they have composed a life of meaningful patterns and routines that give life to themselves and their families.
Forged and Composed: Timeless Ways of Living
A co-hosted podcast featuring Forged host Brian Williams and Composed host Christine Perrin.
Forged: Timeless Ways of Living
In this podcast, Dr. Brian Williams of the Templeton Honors College interviews men (and some women) to learn how they seek to forge meaningful lives of at work, home, and in the broader culture.
All Episodes
Passing On Good Patterns to Children by Working Side by Side with Sophia Perrin
What do children remember most?
The Effort of a Lifetime: Craft, Restoration, and Mentoring with Alfred Lohmann
What does it take to make something that will still be standing in a hundred years?
Preparation and Fulfillment: The Family and the Christian Imagination
What if composing a meaningful life begins not with finding the perfect routine, but with learning to love and practice the good things already in front of us?
Making Room for Beauty in Everyday Life with David and Phaedra Taylor
What would change if we treated every part of our lives as worthy of prayer?
Relational Education: Love, Friendship, Attention and Return with Grant Holbrook
What if some of the most formative patterns in a life begin with simple obligations, reading the same book again, walking the dog each morning, showing up for students, or staying rooted in one place?
What Do We Lose When Work Becomes Only a Paycheck? with Jeffrey Dill
What happens when work becomes little more than a paycheck, food becomes something we expect to appear in a grocery store, and home becomes mostly a place of consumption?
The Life An Education Makes with Elspeth Currie
What if the books you read at sixteen, the habits you formed in a classroom, or the things you learned simply because they were beautiful were never meant to “pay off” only in a career?
The Cost of Ambition and a Life Worth Living with Miroslav Volf
What happens when your sense of worth depends on being better than the people around you? And what changes when you stop asking how you rank and start asking what kind of life is actually worth living?
What the Seasons Can Teach Us About Work, Rest, and Raising Children with Kerry Hasler-Brooks
What if a flourishing family life depends less on doing more and more on recovering rhythms of work, rest, attention, and belonging?
Encountering the Real: Mathematics, Education, and AI with Jake Tawney
What if mathematics is not merely a tool for solving problems, but a way of encountering reality?
Living Like a Human with Elizabeth Lynn
What helps a child learn, a family flourish, or a community grow strong?
Junius Johnson on Learning to See the World as Wild and Wonderful
How do fairy stories prepare children for a world of suffering, courage, beauty, and surprise?
Stay Oriented
Occasional stories, reflections, and resources to support your exploration of classical education.