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Thinking Fellows

How Education Problems Affect Handing Down the Faith

Thinking Fellows

1517 Podcasts

Society & Culture, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Reading and education outcomes in the United States have been declining for decades. In this episode, the Thinking Fellows examine how these trends have impacted Christian education and what Christians can contribute to America's education crisis.
 
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast.

0:21.9

My name is Caleb Keith, and today I am joined by Scott Keith, Adam Francisco, and Bruce Hillman.

0:28.5

If you're watching on YouTube, you'll notice a little bit of a set change for myself and for Scott.

0:34.3

So it's looking good.

0:35.4

We now match Adam.

0:36.7

Now all we have to do is build Bruce a new

0:39.1

apartment. He'll fit right in here. So we're now ready for video. So today's topic is about,

0:50.0

I want to talk about education in general, but specifically Christian education, catechesis, educating children.

0:58.0

A lot of people ask the question of me, at least, or express the concern, and I think you see this a lot,

1:06.0

which is how do you actually teach the faith to children? Obviously, at the front of people's minds a lot. Every Christian

1:13.4

publishing house on the planet publishes, you know, buckets full of material for Christian

1:19.4

education, Sunday school, Bible studies, and stuff like that. But it seems like with all education

1:25.3

and sort of all knowledge markers, there's some sort of decline in it.

1:29.3

I just saw this had nothing to do really with Christian education, except that you could see that if the general population has lower reading ability, that means Christian kids also have lower reading ability, probably, which is a I saw a Stossel report.

1:43.5

And if you grew up in the lessons like I did, you remember Stossel reports on,

1:48.8

I don't know what, that had to be like 7 p.m. on Fox News on Wednesdays or something.

1:54.6

But it was about, it's not like we had Fox News on in our house ever.

1:59.6

Definitely not.

2:00.3

Just like, wait a minute.

2:02.5

Wait.

2:03.1

I don't remember Rachel Maddow being on Fox.

2:08.0

MSNBC.

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