Worldview at the Abbey is a Christian gap year program associated with Worldview Academy summer camps. Bill Jack, Jeff Baldwin, August Huckabee, and Hannah Hall founded the Abbey in 2014, and the curriculum centers around a Socratic teaching of classical texts in general education classes such as literature, political science, history, and economics, as well as teaching rhetoric, and apologetics from a Christian worldview. Along with classroom teaching, students engage in community service and leadership initiatives throughout the year to solidify the teaching in the classroom.
“What is your definition of justice?” This is a question I’ve taught hundreds of students to ask over the last four years at Worldview Academy camps, TeenPact Leadership Schools, and Worldview at the Abbey students who needed to ask questions of anyone in government.”
Read MoreWorldview at the Abbey is an academic program first and foremost—our new students have almost finished reading Plato's Republic and (even more impressively) are beginning to understand what Plato got right and what he got wrong. Worldview Academy has a long history of seeking to help students “think well in order to live well,” which means we put a premium on thoughtful discussions and wrestling with the big ideas. So why do we take three days in the middle of a hectic first month to camp and hike and raft with our students in the Colorado wilderness?
Read More"What would life be like if one’s work provided so much money, that one would never have to worry about it again? What fun and joy would occupy one's free time? This is the life of most Hollywood stars. Celebrities do not want for work or money. In fact, they can ensure that they do not have a single moment that is not occupied either by work or lavish amusements. Although they have everything that man searches for in life, they do not have happiness. They are the canaries in the mineshaft, letting the whole world know that wealth and fame will not bring joy. Their lives wilt because the do not participate in leisure."
Read MoreAt the end of the Pyeongchang Olympics Opening Ceremony, right after they lit the torch, they began an emotional song calling all people everywhere to unity. The song was “Imagine” by John Lennon. Although it has a catchy tune and generally points towards unity, it totally ruined the moment. The reason is that the song directly contracts reality; it looks for unity in all the wrong places. “Imagine there’s no heaven … imagine all the people living for today.” This is exactly how to ruin the world. If you want to build a good world, you need to live for another one.
Read MoreIn major cities the past few years tourists and shoppers have been the victims of “the knockout game.” A street thug will approach an unsuspecting victim, usually from behind, and simply knock the victim to the ground with a sucker punch. The victim does not see it coming and usually ends up unconscious or otherwise seriously injured. The Sadducees tried to play “the knockout game” with Jesus by approaching him in a crowd and asking seemingly difficult, out of the blue, blind-siding questions, not unlike the intellectuals of our day do with Christian students.
Read MoreThe apparel and gear company Patagonia has become quite the status symbol. Bright colors and unique designs combined with the mantras of quality and responsibility have made the brand the perfect sweater that college students can wear while sipping their Starbucks and wearing their Birkenstocks on a fall day across the southern United States.
Read More1500 years ago, after hundreds of years of stability, the people of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga went exploring. They found and settled approximately 1000 islands hidden among 20 million square miles of the Pacific Ocean in one of the greatest feats of human exploration in history. Recently, the beginning of this adventure was memorialized into a film named Moana. This Disney retelling is the last in a long line of historic retellings, and reveals human nature to us. We tell stories about our past to make sense of who we are.
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