Cultivate: A Veritas Academy Podcast

About Cultivate: A Veritas Academy Podcast

Cultivate is the podcast of Veritas Academy, a preschool though 12th grade classical Christian school in Lancaster County, PA. Our mission at Veritas Academy is to cultivate loving, serving, thinking students, and this podcast features discussions that help you and your family be intentional about cultivating good and godly things in your and your child's heart, mind, and life.

Publisher

Veritas Academy

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 May 2022

Latest episode

4 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

90 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Nov 2026

   The Paideia of Veritas: Establishing a Christ-Centered Culture at School

   In our last episode, we talked with other classical Christian school leaders about the central concept of paideia in schools and in culture (and if you haven't listened to that one yet, we encourage you to do that here (https://www.veritasacademy.com/resources/podcast/paideia-raise-them-up-in-the-nurture-and-admonition-of-the-lord))! This episode is a follow-up to the last one, where we bring the paideia conversation home - or, at least, home to Veritas. Our host and Head of School Ty Fischer and Principal Dr. Dan Spanjer pull back the curtain on what it looks like at our classical Christian school to implement a particular paideia. If it's true that schools throughout history have sought to enculturate generations of students to fit their society's ideal mold, then how is Veritas intentional about an enculturation that points students toward Christ? How can a school be intentional about fostering a Christ-centered culture that goes beyond curriculum and reaches to the heart of students who are growing into adulthood? This episode is a great way to get a peek into the unique and purposeful culture of Veritas Academy, and the heart of a school's administrators to help students "live as if the Gospel were true...because it is."

2. 

   21 Oct 2026

   Paideia: Raise Them Up in the "Nurture and Admonition of the Lord"

   It's a word that most people don't even know how to pronounce, let alone how to define. And yet, it profoundly impacts the trajectory of our culture and our worldview. Paideia. In classical Christian education, it's a guiding principle for what kinds of students we hope to cultivate. For the ancient Greek polis, it was a guiding principle for what kinds of citizens they aimed to form. And whether we realize it or not, our culture has a paideia of its own, and it's not really in line with what the abundant life to which Christ calls us and our children. In this episode, our host and Head of School Ty Fischer talks with Ty Rallens and Devin O'Donnell, two leaders in the national classical Christian education movement and ACCS, about the central, critical concept of paideia. This concept of forming the soul of a generation has guided organizations and cultures for centuries to pass on their most important values and traditions, in order that they may endure and define an era. Learn how to identify the paideia of our culture and of schools, discover the hallmarks of a classical Christian education paideia, and be inspired to examine how you can lean into the concept of paideia in your family to, as Ephesians 2:4 says, "bring them up in the 'nurture and admonition' (Greek paideia) of the Lord."

3. 

   9 Oct 2026

   Raising Resilient Kids: Embracing Failure, Encouraging Growth with Dr. Leonard Sax

   Welcome to Season 6 of Cultivate! You've heard it time and again in recent years. Youth anxiety is on the rise. And as the school year and sports seasons get into full swing, maybe anxiety is even on the rise for the kids in your household. Sure, we want our kids to do well in their endeavors. They want to do well. But often, success only comes after failures. Many of them. Our teachers and administrators at Veritas want our students to grow to be bold and courageous. To take risks, be curious, and love learning - not just get good grades, or even to just be good at everything they put their hands and minds to. The main reason? Because God created them fearfully and wonderfully, to do marvelous works for him. In this season's opening episode, Veritas Head of School Ty Fischer talks with Dr. Leonard Sax, family physician, psychologist and author about what it looks like to raise kids who grow to be not only resilient, but adaptive and strong in the face of challenges. They'll discuss cultural forces that lead to "fragile" kids and adults, the role of technology in anxiety, tips for parents, teachers, and coaches, and more. More about our guest Dr. Sax's books includes the NYT bestseller The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups, Why Gender Matters, Boys Adrift, and Girls on the Edge. He has spoken on issues of child and adolescent development not only in the United States but also in Australia, Bermuda, Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Scotland, Spain, and Switzerland. He has appeared on the TODAY Show, CNN, National Public Radio, PBS, Fox News, Fox Business, Focus on the Family, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, New Zealand Television, and many other national and international media.

Who has been a guest on Cultivate: A Veritas Academy Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Al Mohler
• Meghan Spanjer
• Annika Martin
• Daniel Huang
• Zach Spykstra

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

88,043

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

14 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

83

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

85

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