The Biblical Thinker: An Interview of Dr. Max Lyons

Hal Shurtleff, host of the Camp Constitution Report, interviews Dr. Max Lyons of The Biblical Thinker. His website and E-mail: https://thebiblicalthinker.com/ [email protected]

Dr. Max Lyons served as teacher and administrator in three Christian schools since 1979. He has served as Principal at the elementary, middle and high school levels, and was the Head Administrator and CFO at StoneBridge School. His last school position was Director of Guidance at Atlantic Shores Christian School. He has extensive experience in all aspects of Christian School management, including curriculum development, teacher professional development, recruiting and admissions, fundraising, business management, board development, and guidance and counseling. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Virginia Wesleyan College, a Masters in Christian School Administration from Regent University, and a Ph.D. in Christian Education from Whitefield Theological Seminary.

From 2014-25 he served as Director of Teaching Services at the Foundation for American Christian Education and he currently serves FACE as a Coach in the Leading Schools Program. Max is a teacher, coach, curriculum writer, consultant, and conference speaker, specializing in the areas of Bible, history, government, economics, and Biblical worldview. He has taught a FACE Principled Studies Group (Biblical worldview Sunday school class) for over three decades.

His nine publications include the Student Worldview Dictionary, Celebrate our Christian Holidays Like You Were There, Government Takes All…What’s Left for Me?, Sons and Daughters Walking in the Truth, How to Establish a Christian School to Restore the Republic, The Seven Pillars of Liberty, Free Men and Free Markets, The Principle Approach to Teaching Bible and The High School Student’s Complete Guide to College Planning. He and his wife Margie co-authored an upper elementary Bible curriculum entitled Thinking and Acting Like Jesus. He is co-author of Odyssey of Faith, a children’s book and Virginia history curriculum. He has several books published in Portuguese that are used by a network of Principle Approach schools in Brazil. Government Takes All…What’s Left for Me? and Free Men and Free Markets are published in Spanish.

Max currently serves as President of The Biblical Thinker, and In his spare time Max writes and produces publications with Margie and Rachel, enjoys outdoor activities including pickleball, and remodels properties owned by his children and family.

Max and Margie have four children and eight grandchildren, and they attend Kempsville Presbyterian Church.

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