culture

The Latest From Barna That Impacts Your Family – Brooke Hempell

The world is changing, spinning… what are the cultural forces at work and the trends that are impacting your children and schools today? Every type of media your child consumes is educational. How can you be intentional about every hour of your child’s time and help them navigate the confusion in our culture today? Our…

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Former Tommy Hilfiger Marketing Director Discovers Classical Christian Education

Gordon Pennington is one of the best cultural translators out there. His life reads like a fascinating adventure novel. In his marketing days in New York as the head of marketing for Tommy Hilfiger, he was courted by MTV and jet setting with celebrities and stars including David Lee Roth, Prince Albert and Johnny Depp….

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Meet the Cultural Translators

Wouldn’t it be helpful if someone took the time to translate today’s teen culture for you… the latest cultural trends, the media and technology revolutions, even the buzzwords – and then gave you a weekly briefing on what was happening?  That’s exactly what my guest today, David Eaton, CEO and founder of Axis does as a way of helping all of…

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Is Education Brainwashing?

Propaganda is dangerous stuff. Terrorists and dictators use it but so do marketers, and even schools and universities. It is effective because it most often subtle. Like fish in water, everyone from media and politicians to educational institutions are immersed in a culture with certain assumptions. Ben Brandon teaches in a K-12 classical Christian school as well as…

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