Welcome to the podcast. This is episode 3.72. My name is Douglas Wilson and I welcome you aboard.

Thanks for showing up. Thanks for listening to this. What I'd like to talk about here is a ministry that I just recently found out about.

And it's not, this is a ministry that doesn't apply to every

situation. It might just be a niche, a niche need. But I think everybody ought to know about it.

Everybody who cares about education and how our young people

are doing. So as most of you know, if not all of you know, I've been involved in private

education since the late 70s, and I'm a wholehearted advocate of private Christian education.

Not only that, but private classical Christian education.

I'm up to my neck and that sort of thing. We founded Logos School. I served for many years on

the board of Logos School. I'm on the board of New St. Andrews College. So I'm full tilt,

an advocate of Christian Ed. And my advice to Christian parents,

do whatever you can to get your kids out of the government schools. Having said that, right,

having said that, there's an opportunity, I think, for Christians who understand the nature of

education to throw a rope to

parents, Christian parents, or just middle of the road, middle class Americana parents, who are,

you know, not genuinely Christian, but Judeo-Christian, or, you know, they're not Buddhist, and they're just

sort of there. And their kids are in the government school system. Enter the ministry I want to talk

to you about today. This is a ministry called Lifewise Academy. Lifewise Academy. Now, this is the way it works. In 1952, the Supreme Court decided,

determined that it was constitutional, fully constitutional, for public schools to release students

for an hour a day to have religious instruction provided

that religious instruction was done off-site, off the school property, and it was

privately funded. Now, if you live in the Pacific Northwest, like I do, you'll realize that, for example, in southern Idaho,

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