Episode 62: Raising Sturdy Kids: Why Children Need Struggle, Courage, and Truth
Description In this episode of The Christopher Perrin Show, Christopher Perrin welcomes Keith McCurdy and Davies Owens for a conversation about Raising Sturdy Kids, Keith’s new book on forming strong families and capable children. McCurdy...
Episode 30: Building a Classical Christian Teachers College in Uganda: Training Teachers, Transforming Nations
In this episode of The Rafiki Foundation Podcast, Karen Elliott interviews David and Michelle Graves. The Graves share how Rafiki’s Classical Christian Teachers College in Uganda is preparing a...
Episode 41: The Teacher as Matchmaker: Awakening Students to Wisdom
Recorded on site at True North Classical Academy, Jesse Hake speaks with Patricio Mendez, philosophy teacher and the Director of EdTech & Analytics, about recovering teaching as a vocation of love...
Episode 61: Hildegard College: Restoring Polymathy and Redemptive Entrepreneurship
Description Christopher Perrin welcomes Dr. Matthew J. Smith, founder of Hildegard College, to discuss why he left a tenure-track literature career to build a deliberately small, relationship-centered “micro college” in Southern...
Episode 29: Cultivating Classical Christian Education in a Cross-Cultural Setting
In this episode of The Rafiki Foundation Podcast, Karen Elliott sits down with Shakiyla Solomon, Kelly Fore, and Erica Robertson to discuss the unique challenges and opportunities of cultivating faculty for classical Christian education...
Episode 40: Motherhood, Vocation, and the Life of the Mind
In this episode of the ClassicalU Podcast, Jesse Hake speaks with Jessica Hooten-Wilson about her forthcoming book on Christian women whose lives and work have often been neglected because they are “too...
Episode 28: Teaching Truth in a Digital Age: Why Parents Need Classical Education
In this episode, Karen Elliott interviews Dr. Robert Littlejohn about his co-authored book Wisdom and Eloquence for Parents and explores why classical Christian education remains a proven model in an age of rapid...
Episode 60: A Living Tradition: Classical Education Without Nostalgia
Description Christopher Perrin welcomes Dr. John Mark Reynolds for a extensive conversation about the renewal of classical education—and why the term classical often confuses more than it clarifies. Reynolds shares how...
Episode 59: American Education: What It Was and Can Be Again
Description Recorded at the 2026 Great Hearts National Symposium on February 25, 2026, this edited episode features Christopher Perrin’s keynote speech exploring the history, meaning, and renewal of classical education,...
Episode 39: AI and the Loss of Human Formation with Dr. Brian Williams and Jake Tawney
In this episode of the ClassicalU Podcast, Jesse Hake—joined by guests Dr. Brian Williams and Jake Tawney—explores the pressing question of AI and human formation in the classroom. Framed by the classical vision...
Episode 27: More Than a Mission Trip: Discovering Classical Christian Education at Rafiki
In this episode, Karen Elliott interviews Veritas Scholars Academy teacher Corey Piper as he shares his experience leading students on a mission trip to the Rafiki Village in Kenya. Through classroom...
Episode 58: The Divided Soul and the Prodigal Pattern: Duty, Desire, and the Way Home
Description Christopher Perrin welcomes author and speaker Heidi White to discuss her book The Divided Soul and the inner conflict so many people experience between duty and desire. Along the way,...
