And the Welcome to the podcast for Cultural Reformation everybody, a Ministry of the

Ezra Institute where we equip current and emerging cultural Christian

leaders with a biblical

worldview, Christian philosophy and cultural apologetics studies. We do this

through residential training programs and print and digital resources.

I'm Dr. Michael Tieson together here with Dr. Joe Boot

and another one of our fellows, Dr. Andrew Sandlin, and gentlemen,

we have actually just come off of a wonderful week of doing in-person

training and I just kind of want to review and and enjoy some highlights from that week before we get started into our

discussion. So Andrew, what was it like being at our inaugural Christian

worldview Academy in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Profoundly depressing.

No, it was a one.

It was actually really exciting. Of course we've done similar events for high school students in Canada and was a privilege to speak of several of those.

This was the first one I believe in the United States in the Gatlinburg area.

I was impressed with a number of things because of time I'll mention only one and that is the real

enthusiasm and attentiveness of the students there.

This was for high school age students.

And of course these days, I listen to other speakers and those who put on conferences

and they say, all the difficult thing is keeping their attention and we have to have all sorts of programs and so on

But while there was plenty of fun at the Academy there was a lot of serious teaching and there didn't seem to be a great deal of restlessness and

I mentioned finally the the questions when we did the panel discussion the the three of us.

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