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Reflections on Truth and Transformation

Essays, stories, and insights from the community of Aletheia Christian College — 

exploring how faith renews thought and how education becomes discipleship.

Parents are the first teachers Understanding Federal School Choice - Federal “school choice” programs promise opportunity, but history reveals that state funding often expands state oversight. This Theopaideia analysis explores the biblical, historical, and structural implications for Christian families and schools as they steward the formation of children’s hearts and minds.
Theopaideia: Learning as the Knowledge of God Theopaideia: Learning as the Knowledge of God - “For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding” (Proverbs 2:6). Education, at its root, is not the acquisition of facts but the formation of souls. Theopaideia means God-centered formation—the recovery of learning as worship. This session shows how Scripture, family, and the unity of truth lead us toward wisdom—so what we know becomes who we are.
Sunlight breaking through trees over the earth, symbolizing divine revelation through creation The Grammar of Creation: Reading God’s First Textbook - Before we learned to read books, we were meant to read the world. Creation’s patterns teach the grammar of divine order—revealing that knowledge begins not in mastery but in marvel.
First Tuesday: Optimizing Learning— Replay - Optimizing Learning: Aligning the Mind with God’s Design Optimizing Learning: Aligning the Mind with God’s Design This month’s First Tuesday presentation explores how God designed the human mind to grow through the biblical pattern of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom (Proverbs 2:6). Drawing from Theopaideia’s fourfold framework—Scripture, Family, Integration, and Wisdom—this session examines how motivation, memory, […]
“A harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.” — James 3:18 Rhetoric and the Practice of Wisdom - Rhetoric and the Practice of Wisdom Speech as Stewardship; Truth Joined to Love By Theresa Willen · October 30, 2025 Speech as Sacred Trust In a fractured age where words have become currency for power, speech as stewardship restores the moral weight of language. Every word becomes an act of obedience, a reflection of the […]
Reason is not a neutral tool of calculation; it is a sacred likeness. Logic and the Art of Understanding - Logic and the Art of Understanding Reason as a Divine Image-Bearing Faculty By Theresa Willen · October 23, 2025 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.” — John 1:1–2 “The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and […]

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