Jeff Robertson

I was raised in Prattville, AL by godly, Christian parents, who catechized me in the faith from a young age. I went to public school until my church opened a private Christian school when I was entering 9th grade. I graduated with a diploma largely in athletics, but I did write a paper or two, as well. The summer before I was to leave for college, I overheard a theological debate between my friends, of which, I would find out later, I was on the wrong side. This was the first time I had experienced anything like a major paradigm shift, and my intellectual curiosity awoke. I read an entire book for probably the first time that summer, and then I read another, and another. The next year, I would change my major from Engineering to Philosophy.

I began teaching at a Auburn Classical Academy while working on my bachelor’s. One year the school took the faculty to a conference in Louisville, and I was forever converted—I’ve considered myself a fan boy of the classical model ever since! Nearing the end of my college experience, I decided to follow up my training in secular philosophy with theological training from a Christian seminary. Since I was single and had no children, it was the perfect time to grind out another degree. Just as I was preparing to leave to work on my master’s, I met my wife, Amanda.

We had our first child, Clive, in Philadelphia. As we wrapped up there, I began to apply for teaching jobs back in the Southeast. I graduated and moved to Huntsville, AL, just three weeks before our second, Elizabeth, was born. Since then, I have been an enthusiastic member of the faculty at Providence Classical School, we’ve had number three, James, and the fourth is on the way. Now, I enjoy woodworking, reading, gardening, taking care of our chickens and rabbits, and reliving the glory days when I could still dunk.

Teaching Philosophy

This is God’s world, and he made it by his Son, our Lord. We are called by God to both instruct and to train our children up in that same Lord, and to do so is to prepare them for life in his world. My teaching philosophy is that a good education will prepare men and women for life in God’s world. Those who bend the knee and live according the way God made the world will live well, according to the Proverbs.

If we educate our children “in the Lord” successfully, what will we see? I believe we will see a man or woman who obeys the law of our Lord: Love the Lord with all you heart, mind, and strength. And love your neighbor as yourself. So, a well-educated Christian disciple will be both formed and informed (trained and instructed) spiritually, mentally, physically, and socially. He will understand how to think, and be trained in the disciplines of thinking well, he will understand how to exert himself physically and will be trained in the disciplines of doing so well, etc.

This is my goal for my own children, and as someone called by God to be a teacher, it is my goal to educate other Christians in the same way for the service of Christ’s Kingdom.

Statement of Faith

I affirm the historic creeds of the Faith, not least the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian.

My theological training is in the reformed tradition, though I prefer to consider myself more a mere Christian or maybe a Reformational Catholic.

I currently attend St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Madison, Alabama. I also love popping in to many different churches in my area to worship with friends in other church bodies.