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
The Harmony of the Parts: on Beauty, Place, and Belonging
What does beauty have to do with the spaces where we learn, teach, worship, and gather?
Living Inside Language with Annie Kantar Ben-Hillel
What does it mean to compose a life through Sabbath rest, faithful work, and the patient practice of language?
Sara Hall on the Love of the Grind
What does distance running teach us about the body, failure, and the long work of becoming whole?
James LaGrand on Making a Home for Books, Beauty, and Belonging
What does it mean to build a culture of intellectual friendship, one shaped by books, music, meals, memory, and shared attention?
Makers by Nature: Bruce Herman on Art, Beauty, and the Call to Create
What is art for, and why does beauty awaken deep longings within us?
Fighting for the Real: Jeanne Schindler on Presence, Technology, and the Life We Share
What does it take to remain fully human in an age of distraction? In this conversation, Christine Perrin speaks with Dr.
Tilling Soil & Soul: Michael Lamb on the Craft of Character
What forms a life of character? In this episode of Forged, Brian Williams talks with Michael Lamb about the moral formation that happens through work, friendship, habit, and hope.
Patterns That Make Us Alive: Timothy Patitsas on Beauty, Learning, and Home
What makes a place, a school, or a daily life feel truly human?
The Reading Man: Shilo Brooks on Making a Life with Books
What do books do to a man? In this conversation, Shilo Brooks and Brian Williams discuss reading, ambition, teaching, and the making of a life.
Motherhood and the Dignity of Dependence
Dependence is not a defect, it is part of what it means to be human.
Pursuing Embodied Wonder and Material Wisdom: Chris Hall on the Common Arts
In this episode of Forged, Chris Hall reflects on the formative power of the “common arts”—the ordinary skills and embodied practices that introduce us to the givenness of the world and manifest our humanity.
Learning to See: Attention as Participation
In this episode, Lynette Hull invites us into a conversation about art, faith, and the quiet transformation that can happen when the two meet.
Stay Oriented
Occasional stories, reflections, and resources to support your exploration of classical education.