Of Flames and Crowns

Ep. 18: DAVID ERB | Composing the Soundtrack of a Culture

Musical literacy is essential to the formation of great civilizations. The songs a people sing—and the excellence with which they sing them—shape not only their affections, but ultimately their actions.
In this finale of Of Flames and Crowns, Lennox Kalifungwa is joined by Dr. David Erb to explore the beauty of song and symphony, and to consider what it truly takes to form—and reform—an entire culture through music.
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Ep. 17: TIM HARMON | The Intellectual Surrender of the Church in the Public Square

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. If this is true, then theology must undergird every disciplined school of thought and practice. Yet for too long, theology has been pushed to the margins of intellectual engagement in the public square, dismissed as a concern for abstraction rather than a foundation for truth.
Christians who have treated theology in this way have weakened the cultural and intellectual influence of Christianity itself. It is time to recover theology as fundamental to true learning and ordered wisdom.
Tim Harmon joins Lennox Kalifungwa for a discussion on theology as the queen of the sciences—and why this recovery matters now more than ever.
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Ep. 16: TOBY SUMPTER | The Art of Raising Excellent Children

The culture war must first be won at home. The most effective leaders are those whose households remain intact—marked by thriving marriages and well-formed children. Children are an inheritance from the Lord, and parents are called to steward these gifts faithfully, not merely to help them survive comfortably, but to launch them as arrows—spreading light and shattering darkness with truth, beauty, and goodness.
Toby Sumpter joins Lennox Kalifungwa for a bracing and thoughtful conversation on raising children faithfully in a chaotic world.
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Ep. 15: BRAD COVINGTON | Blue Collar Workers Need Classical Education

The ability to work with one’s hands is often pitted against the intellectual vocations, as though the two were sworn enemies—disciplines incapable of reconciliation. The notion that college weakens the hands is not an argument but a symptom: the fruit of a misguided and miseducated populace that reduces academia to little more than white-collar job placement.
A true understanding of the liberal arts reveals something far richer. A good education is one that forms the whole person—cultivating the holistic faculties of the human being. A genuinely classical liberal arts education should train its adherents to build with their minds while strengthening the disciplined use of their hands.
In this episode, Lennox Kalifungwa is joined by New Saint Andrews College alumnus Brad Covington, a firefighter and successful business owner. Brad reflects on his time at NSA and offers a compelling account of how a blue-collar man was not hindered, but strengthened, by a Christian liberal arts education.
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Ep. 14: JOFFRE SWAIT | How to Build a Prosperous Sub-Culture

There exists a prevalent tendency to exclusively think of culture building at a macro level—thinking through big civilizational questions, but without an idea of what it takes to build culture in the actual and everyday arenas of life.
In this episode, Lennox Kalifungwa is joined by Joffre Swait for an inspiring conversation about building micro-cultures. They also delve into their experiences as third-culture kids and the opportunity that has afforded them to think of building culture.
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Ep. 13: DAVID TALCOTT | You Can’t Afford to Be Ignorant of Greek Philosophy

The modern West suffers not from a lack of information, but from a collapse of memory. We argue fiercely about politics, culture, and truth while forgetting the intellectual architecture that once taught us how to think in the first place.
The history of thought—especially the history of philosophy—has quietly slipped from the modern mind. When a civilization loses touch with its intellectual ancestry, it loses the categories necessary to reason, to judge, and to learn from its own successes and failures. Greece understood this well. Long before the modern state or the modern university, Greek philosophers asked the most enduring questions: What is truth? What is justice? What is the good life? And how should a people order themselves accordingly?
In this episode, Lennox Kalifungwa is joined by Dr. David Talcott, Fellow of Philosophy and Graduate Dean at New Saint Andrews College, for a penetrating conversation on what ancient Greek philosophy can still teach America today. From the formation of reason and virtue to the dangers of intellectual amnesia, this discussion traces how Greek thought shaped Western civilization—and why recovering it may be essential to our cultural renewal.
If we wish to think clearly, govern wisely, and live meaningfully, we must first remember where our thinking came from.
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Ep. 12: BRYAN AUTON | Chick-Fil-A and the Pursuit of Excellence

At the heart of Christian culture—and free markets—is excellence: the disciplined, beautiful, God-honoring work that builds trust, prosperity, and genuine freedom. When nations forget God, excellence collapses into consumerism, entitlement, and dependence, leaving technocrats and the State to fill the void with coercion and decay. Scripture teaches that ownership, responsibility, and craft are gifts meant to cultivate generational fruitfulness. In an age discipled by consumption rather than creation, Christians are called to rebuild—boldly and beautifully—through character, diligence, and love. In this episode, Lennox welcomes Bryan Auton to discuss how Christian excellence transforms institutions, markets, communities, and the world.
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Ep. 11: KATY FAUST | The Sexual Revolution Was a Death Cult

The Sexual Revolution didn’t free anyone—it fractured a civilization. In this episode, Lennox Kalifungwa is joined by Katy Faust, who dismantles the lies of feminism, gender ideology, IVF culture, and the assault on marriage and family. They expose how the revolution produced child victimization, fatherlessness, moral collapse, and a society addicted to self-worship. Katy reveals how every cultural battle—from abortion to surrogacy to transgenderism—comes down to one thing: adults demanding sacrifices from children.
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Ep. 10: JASON FARLEY | Laughter and Living in the Cosmos

Oftentimes, our perceptions of the world are too small. And when we fall prey to this, we tend to miss the categories that enable us to learn, love, laugh, and live.
In this episode, Lennox Kalifungwa is joined by Jason Farley to discuss how people ought to live in the moment, given to us by God, as free individuals who can create and build.
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Ep. 9: DAVID GOODWIN | How the West Lost Its Will to Fight

The West has lost its will to contend for the good, numbed by guilt, confusion, and educational collapse. Entertainment and schooling—our modern liturgies—have reshaped loyalties and hollowed cultural resolve. As the project A Nation at Risk warned, mediocrity has become a form of self-inflicted disarmament. Secularized education now relativizes truth, mocks Christian faith, and forms citizens unable to resist tyranny or build anything lasting. The crisis is fundamentally a war against truth—and therefore against Christianity. Only a robust Classical Christian Education, rooted in Scripture and the fear of the Lord, can produce courageous leaders who confront evil, cultivate excellence, and rebuild civilization.
In this episode, Lennox Kalifungwa is joined by David Goodwin to discuss the role classical Christian education plays in building civilizations.
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Ep. 8: LARRY TAUNTON | Don’t Trust the United Nations, USAID, and WEF

Why are so many Third-World nations still poor and corrupt, even after billions in foreign aid?
From the UN and World Economic Forum to USAID and global NGOs, powerful elites push “progressive” policies that sound good but destroy freedom, faith, and prosperity.
In this explosive episode, Lennox Kalifungwa and Larry Taunton reveal how leftist ideology quietly shapes global policy and traps developing nations in a cycle of control and dependence.
They’ve seen it firsthand. Now, they’re pulling back the curtain.
Watch to uncover who’s really running the Third World—and why true liberty starts with truth.
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Ep. 7: MITCH STOKES | When Atheists Can’t Do the Math

Over the past two centuries, a series of erroneous ideas have taken root—chief among them the claim that faith is inferior to reason, and that the two stand in opposition. This has been accompanied by the notion that science has rendered God unnecessary, establishing itself as the ultimate arbiter of truth—untainted, we are told, by metaphysical assumptions. Yet upon closer scrutiny, every scientific endeavor rests upon philosophical and theological presuppositions that shape both its method and its purpose. Mathematics and logic themselves presuppose a universe in which order, intelligence, and design are woven into the very fabric of reality.
In this episode, Lennox Kalifungwa is joined by Dr. Mitch Stokes to discuss the relationship between philosophy, faith, reason, and science.
Purchase books by Mitch Stokes here:How to Be an Atheist: https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Atheist-Skeptics-Skeptical/dp/1433542986Calculus for Everyone: https://romanroadspress.com/calculus-for-everyone/
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Ep. 6: JOE BOOT | Think Like a Christian, Not a Pagan

In this episode, Lennox Kalifungwa is joined by Dr. Joseph Boot to discuss the necessity of living with a distinct cosmology that is fundamentally and robustly Christian. The church’s failure to think in clear categories and discern good from evil consigns surrounding cultures to ruin. To think in a distinctly Christian fashion is the foundation of freedom and prosperity. In order for the West to recover and replenish its glory, it must begin not just by making Christian references but by thinking in Christian categories.
Order Think Christianly, by Dr. Joe Boot, here: https://ezrapress.ca/
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Ep. 5: JOHN LEWIS | Is College Necessary for Career Success?

College used to be a forge for wisdom and virtue. Now it’s a factory of debt and disillusionment. For millions, the “dream” of higher education has turned into a nightmare—high tuition, empty promises, and minds poisoned by ideology.
The old formula — go to college, get a job, live the dream — doesn’t work anymore. The system is broken. Modern academia no longer forms thinkers or builders; it manufactures cynics and conformists.
But there’s a better way. In this episode, Lennox Kalifungwa sits down with John Lewis, a 2004 graduate of New Saint Andrews College, former Goldman Sachs professional, and now Founder & CEO of Beam Reach, a thriving real estate investment firm.
Lewis embodies what true education should do: train leaders who think clearly, build boldly, and shape culture for generations to come. He shares how NSA’s classical, Christ-centered education gave him the tools to solve complex problems and build successful institutions.
This is the conversation every student, parent, and educator needs to hear.
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Ep. 4: BEN ZEISLOFT | Confronting a World that Loves to Murder Children

The leading cause of death in the United States and many other places across the world is the murder of pre-born children. Those charged to protect good and punish evil are often themselves architects of death—promoting, celebrating, and legislating infanticide in the name of women’s rights.
In this conversation, Lennox Kalifungwa is joined by Ben Zeisloft to discuss a subject that deserves attention and action.
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Ep. 3: CHAD O. JACKSON | Civil Rights Propaganda and Lies about MLK Jr.

In 2020, when riots erupted after the death of George Floyd, a moment of reckoning took place. That event shook the trees and revealed what people truly believed. It exposed the compromise of many evangelicals who were found to have—whether inadvertently or intentionally—bought into cultural Marxism, embracing the popular narratives of systemic black oppression, police brutality, and the illusion that the blue side of the American political system is pro-black and anti-racist. These blatant lies have become the assumed narrative in much of the world today. Although proponents of woke ideology have overplayed their hand, their dogma still permeates many influential institutions. In this conversation, Lennox Kalifungwa is joined by Chad O. Jackson to discuss how history has been revised to accommodate false narratives, how Marxism has poisoned society, and why Martin Luther King Jr. is dishonestly revered as a hero.
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