Ep 1223 | John Luke Explores the Principle of “No Kings” & How Parenting Can Shape a Nation’s Future
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What is the principle of 'No Kings' and its significance?
I am unashamed.
What about you?
So welcome back to our Unashamed podcast on Friday with Hillsdale College. We are in the study of David. And we're deep into it. John, look, you said you were going to go deep after that last podcast from last week. So you ready? I'm ready.
He's always ready to go deep. It's interesting, Zach. So I was in Idaho last week. And it was, they call it a classical Christian school. And I didn't really know what that meant because those are just Christian school. And so they got into some of the things. I mean, when you add the word classical, I was like, what exactly does that make it like more highbrow? Do you listen to the old music, like Vivaldi? So I was trying to figure out. And then they said joyfully classical. And I said, all right, somebody's got to explain to me, what are we doing? But it was really interesting. They have a link. to Hillsdale. They have a lot of their graduates go there. And it's kind of the same type thing. They've been around a long time.
They're totally non-governmental funded. And their ideas is that we teach the Bible, but also the founders and all the classical works of Western civilization. that were founded on this idea of who God is. And so it was great, but they were just a little small group, but their school has been around for 115 years. So they know what they're doing. They know what they're doing. And when I got up, I said, 115 years, you've got to be doing something right.
That's why I love Hillsdale. I do love what they're doing because we actually educated our kids, at least the older two, when they were younger, we went through classical education because we homeschooled, so we used a classical curriculum. which it's basically divided up into three parts called the trivium. And it's the first phase of education is like your grammar stage. It's more like memorization, learning facts, and your ABCs, that kind of stuff. Then the second phase of the education is more logic. And then the final one is rhetoric. So it kind of mirrors really how we learn. And it's the foundation of really how we learned in the West. So I'm a big fan of it as well.
One of the big things they had was like character building, which was really important.
No, I was going to say, is that how you keep your kids from becoming like Hophni and Phineas? If you just have a classical contemporary curriculum?
How did cultural envy influence Israel's demand for a king?
That's exactly right.
Like a home school? We call that the anti-Hophni and Phineas. That's exactly what it's called.
Yeah. Well, it really is helpful because education nowadays, it's all one. It's like one size fits all, but one size doesn't fit all. So it's kind of a problem. And it doesn't allow for students to interact with the material. But these courses are great, what we're doing here. You can get them for free, by the way, at unashamedforhillsdale.com. You can sign up. We've already done Genesis. We've done Exodus. And now we're in the story of David with Dr. Jackson, who... has become a friend of ours. Al, you guys text on a regular basis, correct?
We do. I call him JJ now because we're friends.
Oh, JJ.
I call him Dr. J. Dr. J is another good one. But he is, and it's funny because when Dr. Arnn introduces each of these courses, he speaks so highly of Dr. Jackson. He is excellent. He's really more of a linguist and more of a literature guy and talks about the prose of these writings. But the insight he has, I find to be really helpful. And I love that he basically, every time there's like a controversial thing he'll get into, and sometimes I won't even know it's controversial because I'm not as smart as Zach. So I'm not sure what he's like referring to. But what he does is he'll say, I'll leave that to those guys. Let me just tell you what I think about this. And I like that because in essence, that's what we all have to do, right?
I mean, none of us are, except for Zach, are experts, so.
I'm not an expert either. I've enjoyed these and thought they've been very educational. I'm a deep generalist. That's what I am. I'm not an expert. Deep generalist. Deep generalist.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the principle of 'No Kings' and its significance?
0:01–2:29
2
How did cultural envy influence Israel's demand for a king?
2:29–4:21
3
What lessons can we learn from Saul's kingship?
4:21–7:23
4
How does David's character contrast with Saul's?
7:23–10:46
5
What role does repentance play in leadership according to the discussion?
10:46–13:44
6
How does the concept of education relate to the biblical narrative?
13:44–16:25
7
What are the implications of choosing a leader based on appearances?
16:25–19:32
8
How does the story of Eli and his sons reflect on leadership failures?
19:32–49:29
Speakers
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