{"id":52,"date":"2026-04-22T12:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rivendell.johnzaepfel.com\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:57:36","slug":"students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rivendell.johnzaepfel.com\/?page_id=52","title":{"rendered":"Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rivendell.johnzaepfel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/RivendellStudentsPortrait.jpg\" alt=\"Rivendell students portrait\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLike the Benedictine monastery, the classical Christian school orders everything around the Logos, Jesus Christ, and the quest to know him with one\u2019s heart, soul, and mind. Classical education accepts the Great Tradition\u2019s fundamental understanding that all of reality is grounded in transcendental ideals \u2014 in fact, in the One in Whom we move and live and have our being.<\/p>\n<p>All Christian schools should take as part of their mission the cultivation of personal devotion to Christ within the hearts of their students. Classical Christian education takes a more comprehensive and universal approach. In this model, a searching love of Christ under-girds and harmonizes all classroom learning. The end is to nurture graduates whose hearts desire truth, goodness, and beauty and who use their minds to discover these things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite><em>The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation<\/em>, Rod Dreher (Penguin, 2017)<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rivendell.johnzaepfel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/RivendellStudentsGroup.jpg\" alt=\"Rivendell students group\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLike the Benedictine monastery, the classical Christian school orders everything around the Logos, Jesus Christ, and the quest to know him with one\u2019s heart, soul, and mind. Classical education accepts the Great Tradition\u2019s fundamental understanding that all of reality is grounded in transcendental ideals \u2014 in fact, in the One in Whom we move and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivendell.johnzaepfel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivendell.johnzaepfel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivendell.johnzaepfel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivendell.johnzaepfel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivendell.johnzaepfel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rivendell.johnzaepfel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/rivendell.johnzaepfel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivendell.johnzaepfel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}