The Invitation, the Investment, and the Door
This is the video where I ask you to make a decision.
Over the past couple of weeks, I have shared five lessons on classical Christian education.
I’ve also shared with you the crisis, the wisdom impoverishment that afflicts our modern generation, what actually changes in a person who recovers the reading life, and exactly how the six weeks of The Christian Humanist Reading Life work, with my forthcoming book Becoming Classically Educated as the spine of the journey.
Today I am opening enrollment to my six-week course; and here’s what that means.
The course runs from July 7 through August 11. It will take place over six Tuesday evenings, ninety minutes each, live with me.
I have to cap this course at 13 students, which is one more seat than I usually open. I cap it at thirteen students because the conversation requires a room small enough for everyone to have a voice. In other words, this is not a course for wall flowers; it’s real Socratic engagement.
The investment is $397. That is less than one college credit hour. It is less than most professional development seminars. It includes the live cohort, the assignments, the community space, and a copy of Becoming Classically Educated, a 200-hundred-page volume of essays you will return to long after the cohort ends. What you will receive is six weeks of live, guided formation with someone who has spent thirty years in the Christian intellectual tradition, and a book that distills the substance of those thirty years. This is something you cannot get from a podcast, a blog, or even a self-paced course.
Answering Objections (i.e., The Refutatio)
Let me take thirty seconds to answer the three objections I often hear whenever I’ve offered invitations like this in the past.
“I do not have time.” You have ninety minutes a week. That is the live session. The reading and assignment will take another sixty to ninety minutes. If you cannot find three hours a week for the most important kind of formation a human being can undertake—the ordering of your soul toward wisdom—then I would gently suggest the course is not the problem. The course is the solution.
“I am not academic enough.” This course is not for academics. It is for intelligent adults who are serious about their intellectual and spiritual lives. It’s for parents, professionals, pastors, teachers, and curious people who have always wanted to read widely and think well but never had the structure or the guide. Becoming Classically Educated was written precisely for you. It wasn’t written for specialists, but for thoughtful adults willing to take their formation seriously. If you can read a newspaper and hold a conversation, you are qualified.
“I have tried this before and it did not stick.” I know. That is why this course exists. What makes The Christian Humanist Reading Life different is not the content, necessarily; it is the structure, the accountability, the community, the fact that you will have a tangible book in your hands as a companion, and the fact that every session is designed to produce formation, not fill your head with more information. You are not signing up for a lecture series. You are signing up for a way of life.
Here is what I want for you.
I want you to be the kind of person who, five years from now, reads Augustine with familiarity, thinks about the question of the good life with clarity, orders your days around the things that matter most, and has a community of people who are doing the same alongside you.
I want you to be able to hand your children and grandchildren a tradition, not just a set of beliefs, but a way of reading, a way of seeing, a way of being human—a great tradition that they can live by.
That does not happen automatically. It happens by deliberate choice, made on a particular day, to begin.
Today is that day!
Enrollment is open now. 13 seats. The course begins July 7th.
I want to see you there.
And if you are on the fence—if you have a question that has not been answered, a concern you have not been able to shake—please, email me@scottpostma.net. I mean that. I will reply personally.
