What is the Scholar’s Garden?
Our vision sprouted out of a thirst for knowledge and a hunger for truth. We desire to offer a supportive place of gathering in which people can explore the deep questions of life, while wrestling through their suppositions and assumptions communally: Why do we believe what we do? What do other worldviews ascribe to? How do we discern between so many truth-claims?
We offer in-person high school and middle school classes, teacher’s aide positions, mentoring opportunities, coffee chats, and parental equipping.
Registration for September 2024 classes are open now, and more events will be added soon.
Contact Mr. Chris with questions!
How to get involved:
Mentoring (upon individual request)
Parental Equipping (upon individual request)
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From where did everything come? How did we get here? What or who created it?
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Why is everything here, and what does it mean to be human? What are we supposed to be doing?
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Is truth relative or fixed upon something? How do we determine right and wrong?
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What happens after we die? Is there anything else beyond this time on earth?
Mr. Chris
mrchris@thescholarsgarden.com
“Mr. Chris” leads The Scholar’s Garden. He has served his children as a homeschool dad for 16 years, and has taught in several homeschool co-ops in KS and TX--including Spanish and Worldview classes. He also spent some time as a personal trainer who specialized in helping teenage athletes achieve their athletic goals. He and his family are members of a church in Flower Mound, TX, where he and his wife volunteer in the marriage ministry.
He graduated from The Opened Bible Academy’s two-year Seminary Prep program, held at Dallas Theological Seminary in 2021. This launched him into a deeper exploration of studying the Bible academically, prompting ongoing research and writing papers on biblical, theological, and philosophical subject matters. His hunger for truth and knowledge seem unquenchable, as evidenced by long hours of reading, learning, and discussing topics. You will often find him in a local coffee shop meeting new friends and launching into deep discussions about such studies. He aspires to live as a “scholar.”
His passion grows continually for passing along a humble thirst for truth, a keen ability to discern and employ critical thinking skills, and a love for the God of the Judaeo-Christian Bible to our next generations—that each may come to an awareness of their paradigm and what it truly means for his or her life. Many of his students have referred to his Worldview class as their favorite high school class, and class periods have even been extended at the students’ request! He truly is honored to be serving the Kingdom in this way, and it is his heart’s prayer that God will continue to work in and through him to make an impact on more young people and their families.
Why “Scholar”?
Modern Usage: a distinguished academic, working within a particular branch of study, often within the humanities
Historical Tradition: disciple, pupil, & student have indicated one who sought cultivation, growth, understanding, & equipping
The term “Scholar,” for some, tends to evoke the thought of a rare and super intelligent individual, who much prefers to spend time studying books with antiquity’s great minds in preference to interpersonal interaction—even doing so at the expense of engaging life’s adventures.
In concert with the term’s tradition, The Scholar’s Garden endeavors to till and cultivate fertile mental-grounds within a pensive and conversational class setting—wherein humble scholars can grow and wrestle with truth communally. Honest and sincere scholars delight in finding when pieces of a held-paradigm is challenged because therein lies opportunity for maturity in perspective, and for clearer understanding. This sort of critical thought can also be unsettling when the significance and scope of certain ideologies come into focus, and The Scholars Garden is a response to this need—to foster and guide practicing thinkers who desire to live in the way of truth, rather than to exist in personal preference.
Why “Garden”?
A Living Ethos: it is soil which nurtures all life, which replicates through its fruits, and which must withstand the weeds vying to overtake it
It is a garden in which life was commissioned. Gardens are the domain of unassuming seeds which—and who—are capable of bringing life for many, and that flourish out of symbiotic fellowship. It is a garden which budded and grew to become modernity’s Academia. And, it is a garden in which a seeds and ideas will be nourished and then sprout the roots which will soon fruit and multiply.
Wisdom asks each of us which garden nourishes our roots…
