Summer Conference 2015

Association Updates

Darwin’s Doubt
Darwin’s Doubt

When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did… Continue Reading

Date posted06/25/2015


Trivium Incarnatum: The Work of a Grammarian
Trivium Incarnatum: The Work of a Grammarian

The classical teacher should strive to become a grammarian, logician, and rhetorician as they are the trivium incarnatum. A teacher takes their first steps toward the trivium incarnatum through the study of Latin or Greek. As they become a… Continue Reading

Date posted06/25/2015


Detecting Intelligence: A Non-Materialistic Science
Detecting Intelligence: A Non-Materialistic Science

This seminar explores the basic asymmetry between teleology and physicalism (or materialism), namely, that designed-based reasoning can embrace physical discoveries, whereas physicalism can admit no part of teleology. Continue Reading

Date posted06/25/2015


Rejecting the Magician’s Bargain
Rejecting the Magician’s Bargain

In The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis argued that the project of modern science “was born in an unhealthy neighbourhood and at an inauspicious hour. Its triumphs may have been too rapid and purchased at too high a price: reconsideration… Continue Reading

Date posted06/25/2015


An Introduction to Christian Classical Education
An Introduction to Christian Classical Education

This seminar will introduce participants to the classical education movement as it has taken shape over the last 35 years. It will also go over much of the literature that the movement has spawned during that period which expounds on the… Continue Reading

Date posted06/25/2015


Charlotte Mason, the Art of Student Formation and the Classroom
Charlotte Mason, the Art of Student Formation and the Classroom

Answering the question, What is optimal pedagogy? Bill St. Cyr, Ph.D., Executive Director of Ambleside Schools International, explores the insights of contemporary neuroscience and the ideas of British educator, Charlotte Mason. Continue Reading

Date posted06/25/2015


Paideia in the Flesh: The Pedogogical Necessity of Incarnational Teaching
Paideia in the Flesh: The Pedogogical Necessity of Incarnational Teaching

What makes an excellent teacher? We’ve all had teachers who had a profound and lifelong impact on us – perhaps we are teaching precisely because of their influence! This seminar will take time to examine the theological and philosophical… Continue Reading

Date posted06/25/2015


A Old Solution to a Modern Problem
A Old Solution to a Modern Problem

The loss of faith among young Christians in the Millennial Generation (est. 50-70%) is now well established and is based upon solid research in the last ten years. The solutions emerging all hone in on the role of the church, in general… Continue Reading

Date posted06/2/2015