Education in a Different Story
We must begin to see and name how deeply the modern higher education industry subverts the very nature of embodied, placed, limited humans.
Nina Tarpley
CHI Magazine
Human Formation, Local Flourishing
July 4, 2026
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A Journal for Place-Rooted Renewal
What we are doing here, and why a network of micro-campuses needs a magazine.
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10 articles
The Proven Benefits of a Tutorial Education
Why do we use the tutorial model of education? This article explores the proven historical benefits of a tutorial education, and shows its potential for renewing higher education.
Nicholas J. Ellis
Assessing The Arguments Against Christian Education: Indoctrination
Why do we insist on a truly Christian education? In this article, we explore the fundamental purpose of education: the alignment of the eternal soul with its creator.
Zack Skrip
Catalyzing Intellectual Christian Community In The US And Beyond
The International Implications of a Christian Educational Renewal
Aaron Pierce
What Has Athens To Do With Your Classroom? The New Ancient Way To Educate
Whether it’s training new doctors, or shaping tomorrow’s next musician, educators are looking to ancient history to understand what made them so effective. It’s this model that best exemplifies what makes the CHI tutorial method so effective.
Zack Skrip
Two Short Books to Understand the Chaos of Modern Education
Two book recommendations for you today that are vital aids in understanding the chaos that is modern life.
Zack Skrip
Daniel and the Quiet Community
The Antidote For Modern Chaos Is To Be Found In First Principles of Family and Discipleship
Nicholas J. Ellis
The Chi Rho: Then and Now
Why do we use the Chi Rho at CHI, and what is its meaning for today?
Nicholas J. Ellis, Nina Tarpley
The Magazine
Six Sections, One Argument
CHI Magazine is organized around the planes of the Christian Halls vision and the literary tradition that animates them.
Place
Place
The geography of formation
The geographic plane. Locality, region, parish, and the moral architecture of a town. Why a community holds, what makes it portable, and what is lost when it does not.
FormationFormation
The shape of a person
The personal plane. Pedagogy, virtue, the tutorial tradition, vocation. What it means to be formed by mentors, by texts, by a tradition, and by the work of one's own hands.
SectorSector
The work of the world
The civic plane. Education, healthcare, the trades, commerce, theology, civic life — the eight Impact Sectors and what flourishing looks like in each.
TraditionTradition
The long argument
The classical and Christian inheritance. Texts, councils, masters, and the disciplines we have been entrusted with. What we received, what we owe, and what we must hand on.
LiteratureLiterature
The moral imagination
Fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism as bearers of moral imagination. The literary tradition takes up the same questions as the rest of the magazine — place, formation, flourishing — but through narrative, image, and song. Reviews, close readings, and original essays on the writers and works that form us.
LandLand
The soil under everything
The land itself: agrarian life, the husbandry of place, watersheds and seasons, the household economy. The substrate beneath every other plane.