The League of Houses 

Christ Classical’s League of Houses exists to raise students into their appointed roles of leaders and rulers over creation who cultivate, work, and maintain the world around them for God’s glory.  The League of Houses fosters a culture that equips students for lives of service to God and others as well as success in their future academic and professional pursuits. 

The League of Houses aims to achieve this goal in three ways: 1.) by giving students incentives (house points and corresponding awards) to meet high standards for student competition, comportment, and interaction; 2.) by creating house-specific, school-wide, and community-oriented opportunities for service to others; and 3.) by giving older students opportunities to lead and mentor younger students while being mentored and served by talented faculty members.

The six houses at Christ Classical are named after a Christian from history whose doing, making, or thinking has had a significant impact on the church over time. The influence of these Christians touches many areas of human activity and thought. The students in each house study their house’s namesake, and they seek not only to model their thoughts and habits after these Christians, but they seek to engage our school and the broader community with virtues inspired by the house’s namesake.

St. Augustine was a fourth-century African bishop and theologian whose theology and Christian practice has had as great an impact on the church as anyone after the writers of the book of the Bible. Athanasius, another African Bishop, was a near contemporary of Augustine whose work and writing played a crucial role in establishing Trinitarian orthodoxy over the heresy of Arianism. John Calvin was perhaps the most influential of the sixteenth century protestant reformers. Isaac Watts was an eighteenth century English hymn writer whose hymns like “Joy to the World” and “Our God, Our Help in Ages Past” we still sing today. C.S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer are both twentieth century figure. Lewis, a professor and author, and Schaeffer, a theologian of the arts and worldview, both profoundly shaped contemporary Christian thought about God and the world.

The next several posts are essays by students about their house’s namesake. Visit the blog again to read more about the great Christian thinkers, makers, and doers whose well-trodden paths our students are following.