Archive of Events
Dr. Albert Mohler - Augustine School Scholarship Banquet - Thursday, April 9, 2009
Dr. R. Albert Mohler, President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary gave the address, "Cultivating the Christian Mind: Education as Soulcraft and Learning as Discipleship" at Augustine School's Scholarship Banquet. It is a thoughtful and engaging address on the nature of Christian learning, where education is seen as that which shapes the soul, and where learning should be seen as a form of discipleship, whereby the student is being shaped and formed both for life in the world, and for one's eternal destiny—knowing and seeing God.
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In addition to his presidential duties, Dr. Mohler hosts a daily live nationwide radio program on the Salem Radio Network. He also writes a popular blog and a regular commentary on moral, cultural and theological issues. His writings have been published throughout the United States and Europe. He is the author of several books, including Atheism Remix: A Christian Confronts the New Atheists, Culture Shift: Engaging Current Issues with Timeless Truth, and Desire and Deceit: The Real Cost of the New Sexual Tolerance. He served from 1985 to 1993 as Associate Editor of Preaching, a journal for evangelical preachers. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology.
Leland Ryken spoke at Augustine School Tuesday, April 24, 7:00 pm (Augustine School Library)
Augustine School was pleased to host Dr. Leland Ryken for a special lecture on the nature and purpose of Christian education. Dr. Ryken is one of the outstanding Christian thinkers in the field of literature. He has taught at Wheaton College ( Wheaton, IL) since 1968, and currently serves as the Clyde S. Kilby Professor ofEnglish at Wheaton.
Dr. Ryken has published numerous books, often dealing with the relationship between Christian faith and writing and the arts. He is the author of: The Apocalyptic Vision in Paradise Lost, The Literature of the Bible, Triumphs of the Imagination, The Christian Imagination (editor), Milton and Scriptural Tradition (co-editor), How to Read the Bible as Literature, The New Testament in Literary Criticism (editor), and Windows to the World: Literature in Christian Perspective.
Augustine School Curriculum Summit, January 19-20, 2007
With Mr. Charles T. Evans, Co-Author of Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning
Augustine School was pleased to host Mr. Charles Evans at Augustine School for our first Curriculum Summit. Charles T. Evans is a Senior Consultant with Paideia, Inc. He has spent nearly two decades in Christian education, the last ten leading Christian schools in Virginia, North Carolina, and Texas. Chuck recently co-authored a book on Christian education with Dr. Robert Littlejohn entitled Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning. He also serves as an At-large Director for the Texas Association of Non-public Schools, representing the legislative and regulatory interests of Texas private schools. A native of the Washington, D.C. area, he now lives in Austin, Texas. Mr. Evans spoke and shared about the nature of Christian and classical education. Mr. Evans has been involved in school leadership for two decades. Until recently he served as Head of School at Regents School in Austin, Texas.
"An Augustine Evening . . . With Ken Myers" --Friday, September 22, 6:30 pm
Mr. Myers spoke on the topic, "What is 'Christian' About 'Christian Education'?"
Ken Myers is the executive producer at Mars Hill Audio, a nonprofit organization devoted to helping Christians think wisely about modern culture through a variety of audio resources. He was formerly the editor of This World (the forerunner of the monthly journal First Things). Prior to his tenure at This World, he was executive editor of Eternity, the evangelical monthly magazine.
For eight years he was a producer and editor for National Public Radio, working for much of that time as arts and humanities editor for the two news programs, Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
Mr. Myers is a graduate of the University of Maryland, where he studied film theory and criticism, and of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He is married and has two children, and lives in central Virginia.