Benjamin Lucas

Short Bio

Benjamin was born in the real Newcastle and grew up in Manchester, attending a local grammar school before pursuing his passion for academics and sport as a sports scholar at Durham University. In his teenage years, he represented England at the national level and captained the most successful lacrosse team outside of North America.

Following his university studies and year abroad (as a languages student), Benjamin pursued a gruelling year of school-based teacher training in former mining towns and socially-deprived areas. This nearly broke him, but he pressed on. For almost a decade, Benjamin has taught languages, humanities, ethics, sport (and common-sense) at boarding schools in England and Switzerland. He embraces every opportunity to expand his teacher toolkit and deepen his roots in this noble vocation.

Teaching Philosophy

The work of a teacher to improve a student extends beyond the lesson and their influence reaches beyond the classroom. We are jigsaw pieces that must find the place in the puzzle where we discover our deepest satisfaction and most meaningful contribution.

I guide pupils on this journey to uncover, harness, and apply unique talents and interests to their lives, families, and local communities – the starting point of lasting change. In different contexts and subjects, I point to the world with its many and problems, asking the questions: “What can you fix? What can you build?” This vision is the WHY behind my work.

As students enhance their language and critical-thinking skills, they are encouraged to engage deeply with the cultures, histories, and cuisines of the target language, such as the Deutschraum or the Russkiy Mir from a Biblically-informed perspective.

This distinctive approach of Christian language teaching transforms them from mere tourists to reformers in training, cultivating a critical eye for the good, true, and beautiful worldwide. Language serves as an essential gateway to these foreign cultures.

Longer Bio

Benjamin Lucas is a husband, father, and teacher in his late twenties, who is pursuing the call on his life to be a bright and salty signpost to the community of boys and staff in his boarding school. He never expected to be given this outpost in a quiet town nestled among the rolling hills of Old Wessex, but His ways are not his ways.

The Holy Spirit gripped his soul whilst abroad in the former Soviet Union and revealed the palpable despair of a post-Christian culture - an irreversible decay without the lasting reconstruction of the Biblical alternative. Soon after this experience, he suffered from PTSD until he visited an actual warzone and (thanks to salty doctrine and the distributive power of YouTube) got his life and worldview in order.

Benjamin would consider himself part of a tiny but growing movement of Christians, who have woken up to smell the coffee that the church in the West has failed. Dragons and giants really do exist, they infest the land, and the free peoples are being routed from the battlefield. The once-Christian lands of Europe and the British Isles appear lost, and there looms an enormous work of reconstruction to redefine every aspect of human existence according to God's law-word, not the latest idol that needs toppling à la Boniface.

But all is not lost, and the promises of God are true and everlasting. It is time for faithful warriors everywhere to grasp their swords, raise the banner, and stand in defiance until His enemies become His footstool.

Statement of Faith

I am a born-again Christian, who was saved in my teenage years, and brought into a deeper theological maturity during my university years. I hold to the Westminster Confession and identify myself closest with the Reformed tradition. I have been ashamed by ongoing collusion of the English clergy with diabolical forces, and so my family is currently between churches.

God does not reform apostate churches, nor does he pour new wine into old wineskins. Since the era of lockdowns and government overreach, we are working to establish new communities of believers across Europe and Britain with a long-term vision to build an alternative social order. Our vision recalls the 'Imperium in Imperio' to build the Kingdom and resist any and all encroaching tyranny with the threefold weapons of bread, wine and word.