The Academy Podcast

The Academy Podcast

The official podcast of The Academy of Classical Christian Studies, located in Oklahoma City, OK.

Episodes

September 23, 2025 42 mins

In this inaugural episode of the Academy podcast reboot, Andrew, Nathan, Eric and Josh, reignite our listeners with that oh so familiar accessible pretension. Our intrepid quartet ties together the past several weeks’ individual podcasts into a coherent narrative about the nature and redemption of memory. And of course, along the way, we offer you, dear tens of listeners, the requisite amount of shenanigans.

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In this Conversation Starter, Josh invites you to consider how you interact with your memories.

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In this Conversation Starter, Fr. Carr continues the conversation on memory by exploring contemplation, enjoyment, and memorial.

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In this Conversation Starter, Andrew welcomes listeners to a new season, explains what's happening to the Podcast this year, and invites you to have a conversation on the ways you regularly access the distant past.

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In this Conversation Starter, Andrew reflects on the sounds of an ongoing school year and asks how the ways we keep time might affect each of us more than we usually stop to consider. 

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In this episode, Andrew speaks with this year's Lyceum Project guest, author and policy analyst Leah Libresco Sargeant. They talk about her conversion from Atheism to Catholicism, about her love of math, about her two books, about feminism, about Congress and the possibilities for a Christian politics, and about how we should all embrace depending on others and on God. 

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The ninth annual Lyceum Project presents a lecture by Leah Libresco Sargeant: "The Demands of Human Dependence."

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February 23, 2024 11 mins

In this Lyceum Conversation Starter, Andrew reflects a bit on J-Term at Midtown, looks forward to an upcoming Lyceum Conversation, and tries to start a conversation about memory. He explores the role of memory in the life of learning and the life of faith, gestures at the connection between memory and the transformation of the self, and thinks a little bit about the consequences for our own lives of the ancient notion of memory as ...

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December 27, 2023 11 mins

In this Lyceum Conversation Starter, Andrew describes the Academy's annual preparations for a Christmas Feast and some of our thinking about why to celebrate so regularly and so formally. Then, Andrew reveals the three ancient points of connection between Christmas and Happiness, points revealed in the writing of G. K. Chesterton in commendation of another and older English novelist, Charles Dickens. The episode concludes with...

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December 5, 2023 6 mins

In this inaugural episode of Lyceum Conversation Starters, Andrew first explains the idea behind the series, and then explores the inaugural topic: Advent. 

This is the first of a series called "Lyceum Conversation Starters" wherein Andrew will discuss certain topics in a more abbreviated fashion. Stay tuned for more episodes in the future!

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In this episode, Andrew talks with Alex Burdge, teacher of humanities at the Rhetoric School, about teaching Homer's Iliad, the ancient poem of war, as a veteran of war himself. We also talk about T. S. Eliot, the University of Kansas, classical guitar, and the role of Critical Theory in Alex's journey toward faith. 

Included in the episode are lengthier quotations from Robert Fagle's English translation of Homer&apos...

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Welcome to season 6 of Lyceum Conversations! In this episode, Andrew gives an overview of episodes you can expect to hear over the course of 2023-24. We're very excited about what we have lined up, and we certainly hope you will find it informative and interesting as we explore Classical Christian Education at The Academy.

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In this episode, Andrew speaks with Josh Spears, Chair of Theology and principal of the Academy's South Campus, about theology, about prayer, about the ground of all learning, and about cabinetry. This is the second in a series of conversations about Classical Christian Education at the Academy.

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Eric, Nathan and Josh. Special Guests. Nonsense. Pretentious Accessibility. It’s all back. We promise. More episodes. We’ll give the clamoring crowds what they want. Stay tuned.

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In this episode, Andrew speaks with Jeff Bilbro, associate professor of English at Grove City College and the editor-in-chief of Frontporch Republic, about one of his books, Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry Into the News and an upcoming, related project. There's also conversation about technology, experiencing nature, 19th century America, and Jeff's boat, "The Brain of Hannah."

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In this episode, Andrew speaks with Anne Bradford, Chair of Languages at the Academy and a Latin teacher at North Campus Dialectic, about Latin at the Academy, about memory, about song, and about knitting circles. This is the second in a series of conversations about Classical Christian Education at The Academy.

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Theme Music: "Camelot Monastery" by Darren Curtis

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In this episode of Lyceum Conversations, Andrew Black, Lyceum Director and teacher at the Academy's Midtown Campus and the new Lyceum Director, tells you about himself. 

We'd love to hear what you think. Do you want to hear more content like this? We have more long-form interviews upcoming so be on the lookout. Email us anytime at: TheAcademyPodcastOK@gmail.com.

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In this episode, Andrew speaks with Colin Creech, chair of Science and teacher at the Academy's Midtown Campus, about Natural Philosophy, the study of science, and cooking on a train. This is the first in a series of conversations about Classical Christian Education at the Academy.

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It's Auction Week at The Academy! Jamie Howell takes over the podcast to host a special episode dedicated to all things auction and what to expect this Friday. If you're on the fence about going, get off and come to the auction and have the greatest time of your life!

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Auction Website: http://one.bidpal.net/academyauction2022


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Aaaaaaaaaaand…..we’re back. Eric, Nathan and Josh are live on the mic with your somewhat consistently mediocre accessibly pretentious nonsense.  The triad bounce seamlessly between a deep dive into kombucha, butterfly knives and Conair before transitioning smoothly to our new series for Season Five: a kind of classical school lexicon (lexicon being pretentious for dictionary; we had to, right?!). We throw around jargon at the Acade...

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