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
Beauty Is Not a Luxury with Nadezhda Gribkova
What we attend to quietly shapes the people we become.
Hope Is a Practice: Dr. Lydia Dugdale on The Lost Art of Dying Well
How can we prepare for death without becoming consumed by it? And what might the lost art of dying teach us about living with greater wisdom, agency, and hope?
How Small Habits Fill a Life with Nadya Williams
What if the life you long for is formed one teaspoon at a time?
Elliot Ackerman on Fatherhood, Friendship, and the Habits That Shape Men
How does a father help his son become a good man?
Jesse Hake on the Living Patterns of Reading, Naming, and Belonging
What if the books we read aloud, the walks we take, and the names we learn for the world around us are not small extras, but central ways of forming a life?
Why Making Things Matters: Andrew Peterson on Beauty, Discipline, and Hope
What kind of person is formed by songs, stories, gardens, books, and the patient work of making? This episode is a living picture of classical education beyond the classroom.
Catherine Prescott on Seeing the Human Person
What if learning to see another person clearly is one of the first steps toward wisdom?
How Young Adults Can Recover Hope, Friendship, and Vocation with Anna Moreland
What happens when young adults have been taught how to achieve, but not how to work, love, and rest like whole persons? In this episode of Forged, Dr.
Theology of the Body and the Shape of a Life with Alicia Coyle
What does the body reveal about vocation and our search for communion?
Rusty Reno on The Ordinary Practices that Shape the Soul
What does it take to form a life with roots, discipline, and courage in an age of distraction and drift? In this episode of Forged, Brian Williams talks with R.
Growing Up Classical: Literature, Wisdom, and the Questions We Carry
What does it mean to grow up classical, and how can the great books help form a young person’s moral imagination?
Festival as a Way of Life: Father Nathan Carr on Joy, Time, and Christian Formation
What would it mean to practice festival at home, in school, and in church?
Stay Oriented
Occasional stories, reflections, and resources to support your exploration of classical education.