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Cohort Details
DATES & TIMES

7 Weekly Sessions

Thursdays, March 26 to May 7, 2026
8:30 PM to 10:00 p.m. ET
7:30 to 9:00 p.m. CT
5:30 to 7:00 p.m. PT

FEE

$299

Cohort Description

To engage culture today, we need faithful models from the past. We’re not the first generation to discern the culture’s idols and present the gospel in compelling ways as a better alternative. For two millennia God has raised up inspiring and insightful leaders who can still speak into our own cultural moment. 

In this cohort, we’ll explore the rich history of Christian witness and learn lessons and applications for today. Looking from the early church to the modern era, we’ll meet key thinkers in cultural apologetics. Consider these three examples from the cohort’s seven weeks:

  • Through Augustine, we’ll see how to challenge other worldviews and offer Christianity as the fulfillment of our deepest longings. 
  • Taking Pascal as our guide, we’ll explore how to help non-Christians want the gospel to be true even before they fully understand this good news. 
  • In the words of Newbigin, we’ll seek another missionary encounter with the West. 

Join leading experts on these models from the past as they lead us through their life, ministry, and relevance. 

 

Those who sign up for this cohort will receive free copies of: 

  1. Apologetics at the Cross by Joshua Chatraw and Mark Allen
  2. Biblical Critical Theory by Chris Watkin 

Are you on a church staff or considering this cohort as a group at a church? If so, check out this brief PDF with three ideas of how to use this cohort as a group. It also has instructions for deep discounts, provided through the support of generous donors. We hope these online learning cohorts will bless the church. As a result, we never want finances to hinder someone from participating. If you want to participate in this cohort and have a need, please send us an email ([email protected]) and tell us more about your circumstances.

 

* We are unable to offer refunds for any cohorts

* Registration WITH books closes March 19 and LATE Registration WITHOUT books closes on March 25.

* All sessions will be recorded and available for streaming or download at your leisure in perpetuity. If you can’t make it live or even for months the material is still readily available for you

* NOTE: we are unable to ship to those outside the United States but please use the coupon code “BOOKS15” for 15 percent off as our courtesy to international participants. 

* If you have any questions pertaining to signing up for your cohort, group rates, elder/preaching team rates, or church rates email [email protected]

Grow in knowledge Christian history and the figures who have shaped Christian thought
Understand the cultural contexts that drove these figures to proclaim the gospel in the way they did
Apply the concepts of their practice to our contemporary moment
Content Summary
Session One
Athanasius: Against the World, for the Sake of the World with Jeremy Treat

Athanasius (c296-373), the bishop of Alexandria, in his defense of Jesus’s divinity against the Arian heresy, models how to stand against the world’s idols for the ultimate sake of its redemption and flourishing in Christ. 

Primary source: On The Incarnation

Session Two
Augustine: The City of Man and the City of God with Joshua Chatraw

Augustine (354-430), the great theologian and bishop of Hippo, teaches us how to critique alternative worldviews by offering the entire biblical narrative, from Genesis to Revelation, to expose the flaws in contemporary cultural narratives and false binaries.

Primary sources: The City of God and Confessions

Session Three
Pascal: Make it Loveable with Gavin Ortlund

Pascal (1623-1662), philosopher, inventor, and polymath, refocuses our attention from appeals only to the intellect to the need to engage the heart in apologetics as well. 

Primary source: Pensées

Session Four
Herman Bavinck: Orthodox Yet Modern with Gray Sutanto

Bavinck (1854-1921), a Dutch Reformed theologian writing as his own culture grew increasingly dechurched and secular, offered a critique of modernity that employed modernity to defend the Christian truth. 

Primary source: The Christian Worldview

Session Five
C. S. Lewis: Myth Became Fact with Joshua Chatraw

Lewis (1898-1962), apologist, novelist, and professor, engaged apologetic questions through literary and intellectual avenues. He shows us the need for wisdom, deploying different arguments through diverse means, to offer Christianity as the only hope for the modern person. 

 

Primary source: Mere Christianity and The Abolition of Man

Session Six
Dorothy Sayers: The Most Exciting Drama that Ever Staggered the Imagination with Nadya Williams

Sayers (1893-1957), who like her friend C. S. Lewis was a novelist and apologist, portrays for us the need to make Christian truth accessible, vivid, and dramatically relevant. 

 

Primary source: Creed or Chaos?

Session Seven
Lesslie Newbigin: A Missionary Encounter with the West with Bob Thune

Newbigin (1909-1998), once an international missionary, returned to the UK and found that the principles that guided his missionary work were now needed in a secular West. His approach emphasizes the role of the church in the work but also the embodiment of apologetics. 

 

Primary source: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society

Registration Closed
Cohort Description

To engage culture today, we need faithful models from the past. We’re not the first generation to discern the culture’s idols and present the gospel in compelling ways as a better alternative. For two millennia God has raised up inspiring and insightful leaders who can still speak into our own cultural moment. 

In this cohort, we’ll explore the rich history of Christian witness and learn lessons and applications for today. Looking from the early church to the modern era, we’ll meet key thinkers in cultural apologetics. Consider these three examples from the cohort’s seven weeks:

  • Through Augustine, we’ll see how to challenge other worldviews and offer Christianity as the fulfillment of our deepest longings. 
  • Taking Pascal as our guide, we’ll explore how to help non-Christians want the gospel to be true even before they fully understand this good news. 
  • In the words of Newbigin, we’ll seek another missionary encounter with the West. 

Join leading experts on these models from the past as they lead us through their life, ministry, and relevance. 

 

Those who sign up for this cohort will receive free copies of: 

  1. Apologetics at the Cross by Joshua Chatraw and Mark Allen
  2. Biblical Critical Theory by Chris Watkin 

Are you on a church staff or considering this cohort as a group at a church? If so, check out this brief PDF with three ideas of how to use this cohort as a group. It also has instructions for deep discounts, provided through the support of generous donors. We hope these online learning cohorts will bless the church. As a result, we never want finances to hinder someone from participating. If you want to participate in this cohort and have a need, please send us an email ([email protected]) and tell us more about your circumstances.

 

* We are unable to offer refunds for any cohorts

* Registration WITH books closes March 19 and LATE Registration WITHOUT books closes on March 25.

* All sessions will be recorded and available for streaming or download at your leisure in perpetuity. If you can’t make it live or even for months the material is still readily available for you

* NOTE: we are unable to ship to those outside the United States but please use the coupon code “BOOKS15” for 15 percent off as our courtesy to international participants. 

* If you have any questions pertaining to signing up for your cohort, group rates, elder/preaching team rates, or church rates email [email protected]

Content Summary
Session One
Athanasius: Against the World, for the Sake of the World with Jeremy Treat

Athanasius (c296-373), the bishop of Alexandria, in his defense of Jesus’s divinity against the Arian heresy, models how to stand against the world’s idols for the ultimate sake of its redemption and flourishing in Christ. 

Primary source: On The Incarnation

Session Two
Augustine: The City of Man and the City of God with Joshua Chatraw

Augustine (354-430), the great theologian and bishop of Hippo, teaches us how to critique alternative worldviews by offering the entire biblical narrative, from Genesis to Revelation, to expose the flaws in contemporary cultural narratives and false binaries.

Primary sources: The City of God and Confessions

Session Three
Pascal: Make it Loveable with Gavin Ortlund

Pascal (1623-1662), philosopher, inventor, and polymath, refocuses our attention from appeals only to the intellect to the need to engage the heart in apologetics as well. 

Primary source: Pensées

Session Four
Herman Bavinck: Orthodox Yet Modern with Gray Sutanto

Bavinck (1854-1921), a Dutch Reformed theologian writing as his own culture grew increasingly dechurched and secular, offered a critique of modernity that employed modernity to defend the Christian truth. 

Primary source: The Christian Worldview

Session Five
C. S. Lewis: Myth Became Fact with Joshua Chatraw

Lewis (1898-1962), apologist, novelist, and professor, engaged apologetic questions through literary and intellectual avenues. He shows us the need for wisdom, deploying different arguments through diverse means, to offer Christianity as the only hope for the modern person. 

 

Primary source: Mere Christianity and The Abolition of Man

Session Six
Dorothy Sayers: The Most Exciting Drama that Ever Staggered the Imagination with Nadya Williams

Sayers (1893-1957), who like her friend C. S. Lewis was a novelist and apologist, portrays for us the need to make Christian truth accessible, vivid, and dramatically relevant. 

 

Primary source: Creed or Chaos?

Session Seven
Lesslie Newbigin: A Missionary Encounter with the West with Bob Thune

Newbigin (1909-1998), once an international missionary, returned to the UK and found that the principles that guided his missionary work were now needed in a secular West. His approach emphasizes the role of the church in the work but also the embodiment of apologetics. 

 

Primary source: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society

Registration Closed
Cohort Details
DATES & TIMES

7 Weekly Sessions

Thursdays, March 26 to May 7, 2026
8:30 PM to 10:00 p.m. ET
7:30 to 9:00 p.m. CT
5:30 to 7:00 p.m. PT

FEE

$299

Grow in knowledge Christian history and the figures who have shaped Christian thought
Understand the cultural contexts that drove these figures to proclaim the gospel in the way they did
Apply the concepts of their practice to our contemporary moment