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Reclaiming Childhood for Christianity – Kyle Townes, 8/15/25 (2272)

Issues, Etc.

Lutheran Public Radio

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Kyle Townes, author, “The Road Less Traveled” The Road Less Traveled: Reclaiming Childhood for Christianity

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Have you ever wanted to enter a program that teaches right habits and intellectual rigor,

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as you apprehend the beautiful, the good, and the holy, all the while learning classical

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languages and reading classical texts?

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Learn more about this program at CUC by visiting cuchago.edu, cuchago.edu, cuchago.edu. The state of modern parenting can appear pretty bad.

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We have parents that are transing their kids.

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Don't tell me that it's the kids who want to trans.

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It's the parents who are leading the way on that.

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That's an extreme example. But we also have parents that will openly say that they regret having

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children. Is there a better way? Is there even a marginally better way or perhaps a more excellent way?

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Welcome back to Issues, Et cetera. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to talk about genuine Christian

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parenting, Kyle Towns, a homeschool mother of five children, former public school teacher and author

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of the new book, The Road Less Traveled, Reclaiming Childhood for Christianity.

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Kyle, welcome. Thank you. Why did you leave your previous vocation as a public school

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teacher? So I taught middle school, six, seven, and eighth grade, and I taught in D.C. and

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Virginia for some years, and I really did love my job. I enjoyed helping children, forming relationships with them, and I felt very fulfilled

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