High School Apologetics & Debate Year 2

Description

This High School Apologetics & Debate Year 2 course is ideal for teens ready to learn how to maturely discuss and debate current hot topics from a Christian apologetics perspective. It is for students who have successfully completed Logic & Debate

High School Apologetics & Debate Year 2: Worldview & Culture Analysis

For Autumn 2025 Enrolment

Day & Time: Tuesdays 3-4:30 pm GMT (Two 40-minute sessions with a short break in the middle.)

Location: Zoom Meeting

Tutor: Agnes Mitchell

Pre-Requisites: Apologetics, Logic & Debate Year 1: Intellectual Foundations for Christianity

Required Materials:  Media Use and Parental Note
There are no required textbooks for the course. However, students will interact with popular media that contains non-Christian ideas. These will always be used with the purpose of analyzing and contrasting them with the Christian worldview. All media homework (e.g., YouTube clips) will be posted via Google Classroom so students can view them without needing to browse YouTube directly.

High School Apologetics & Debate Year 2: Worldview & Culture Analysis

Semester 1 – Worldview and Culture Analysis and Debate 

This second-year apologetics course builds on the foundation laid in Year 1, where we explored the rational basis for belief in God, the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus, and the reliability and authority of the Bible.

In Year 2, our focus shifts from the evidence for Christianity to discerning the ideas we currently live among. We will explore competing worldviews that shape modern culture—many of which subtly or directly challenge and undermine the Christian worldview. Through guided analysis, we’ll learn to spot these influences in everyday media—music lyrics, movies, social media, and more.

Our goal is to equip teens with the skills to:

• Identify underlying worldviews in culture
  
• Compare and contrast these with biblical truth
  
• Develop discernment and wisdom in a media-saturated world
  

This course aims to strengthen our teens’ ability to think clearly and biblically in a world that often promotes confusion, relativism, and self-centered living.

Semester 2 – Debate

We will continue developing the debate and critical thinking skills introduced in Year 1. With more practice, students will become more confident and fluent in persuasive speaking and logical argument.
This year’s debates will explore more complex and controversial cultural topics, closely tied to our worldview analysis. These debates will encourage:

• Nuanced thinking
  
• Understanding and fairly representing opposing views
  
• Defending truth with both clarity and compassion

All discussions will be rooted in Scripture, reminding us that while we engage ideas, our ultimate goal is faithfulness to Christ.

Listen to the Podcast

Introducing Logic & Debate for High Schoolers with Emma Cummings & Agnes Mitchell

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About the Tutor

Agnes has a degree in theology from Trinity Seminary, has been an educator for 18 years, and has an obsessive interest in worldview and the consequences of ideas playing out in our culture. Nearly every dinner time in her home is spent debating controversial issues, as she and her husband have always wanted their kids not to be afraid of culture or withdraw from culture but to interact with it, challenge it, and be able to think clearly about the different forces at play in the world around them. Read more about Agnes.