Let me invite you to consider three excerpts that, taken together, provide clear and compelling support for Christian parents to embrace Christian education for their children. That embrace entails sacrifice and perseverance and devotion, but its eternal consequences are worth it. Providence Classical Christian School can partner with parents who seek many things in their […]
What does Easter have to do with education? We are educating in light of the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus alone is Savior. “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). This means that education […]
David Bryant Hellos and Goodbyes
Providence Classical Christian School is very glad to welcome Mr. Anderson Underwood to its Upper School faculty for the 2021-22 school year. Mr. Underwood is certainly no stranger to our school community. He taught at Providence for 3 years before taking a hiatus last year is excited to return to the classroom. His excitement is […]
Some of the most well-known documents and speeches in history were extraordinarily brief. The Ten Commandments are composed of only 301 words. The Mayflower Compact was but 298 words. The Declaration of Independence was a little more than 1,330 words. On November 19, 1863, minister and politician Edward Everett spoke for two hours at a […]
David Bryant Providence Parents
I want to make two requests of you, Providence parents. But before I do, let me give thanks for a couple of things. First, thank you, Lord, for protecting us during this season of the pandemic. We have been in school nonstop this school year, with just one small disruption, and though we have had […]
Education is teleological. “Teleological” is a big word that comes from the Greek word telos, which means end, goal, or purpose. To say that education is teleological is to say that it shapes children to be a certain kind of adult, and education always works because it always forms students toward its inherent telos, its […]
Happy New Year! Last Sunday marked the first Sunday of Advent, and with it a new church year began. The civil calendar marks the beginning of a new year in a few weeks, but those who follow Christ live by a different rhythm, an ancient yearly cycle that walks us through the incarnation, birth, life, […]
Here’s your “dog bites mailman,” obvious news bulletin of the day: the world is a dangerous, scary place. And the more things change, the more they stay the same; the world has always been (in the words of Luther) “with devils filled,” “for still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe.” The world […]
It’s November, so I am going to talk about the end of school. No, not the end of the school year. I mean the end of school, as in the purpose or goal of education, as in, “Educate to what end?” Why are you educating your children? I’m not asking merely about your immediate goals […]
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterful tale The Hobbit, the wizard Gandalf accompanies the story’s unlikely hero, Bilbo Baggins, and his dwarf friends on their adventure across the Misty Mountains. As they prepare to enter the forbidding forest of Mirkwood, Gandalf announces that he must leave his friends. Danger awaits them ahead, he assures them, but they […]