— Dr. Christian Overman
With a passionate calling to explain the beautiful, sacred truths of the Christian worldview, Dr. Christian Overman leads “Clear Thinking in Confounding Times: Training in Biblical Worldview Basics.” Dr. Overman was a headmaster for 14 years and has traveled the globe teaching Christian school teachers how to connect the everyday topics they teach to the larger, “bigger picture” of the Christian worldview. His ministry offers a website, a YouTube site, a Rumble channel, as well as a free online 5-part training series.
The two main items that Dr. Overman offers people who care about strengthening the Christian worldview are “Ask Dr. Overman” and “The Uniview Game”. Let’s introduce each.
On what topic do you wish to acquire a biblical worldview? By submitting a short form to Dr. Overman, you then can receive immediate information on a wide variety of topics that will link and explain them to the larger Truth of the biblical worldview. Please click on the links below to see samples of the relevant, practical information you will receive from Dr. Overman:
Here is an introduction video for more on how the “Ask Dr. Overman” tool actually works and can be of assistance to you:
The second main tool Dr. Overman offers is called “The Uniview Game” which is specifically for students and teachers.
Why is such a game needed? Dr. Overman explains in the video “Why We Need the UNIVIEW Game”:
There are roughly 350,000 churches in the US, which is 3 and 1/2 times the number of public schools. The setup, the infrastructure is already in place. In those 350,000 churches are an estimated 8 to 10 million 9 to 12 year olds.
Why is this important? Because the years 9-12 are the formative years.
This is the prime time to build the basics of a biblical view. We need to target those 8 to 10 million kids through the 350,000 churches. This does not mean we don’t need to target the 9- 12 year olds in Christian schools. We certainly do. But in reaching the churches, we will also reach those who still attend state-run schools for one reason or another. So, how can we reach them? Well, here’s one way. Through a game. One that’s easily accessible online and played on screens from laptops to smart TVs. Does such a game exist? One does. It’s called the Uniview Game, and it’s unlike any game you’ve ever seen before.
The game is for younger students. He continues: “It’s all about having conversations about how specific things relate to the biblical worldview. This awareness can help teachers, pastors, and parents to do a more effective job of creating lesson plans, giving sermons, or having family talks that directly connect any topic of interest with the “bigger picture” . . . of God, Creation, Humanity, Moral Order, and Purpose within the overarching thrust of Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Restoration.” (You can become a partner by clicking here.)
Here is a brief introduction to The Uniview Game and how it works:
C. S. Lewis wrote in the classic Mere Christianity: “God wants a child’s heart, but a grown-up’s head.” In that spirit, we are delighted that Dr. Overman has a passionate calling for the Christian worldview, and especially for reaching young people to help them mature in their thinking. We too believe in the power of ideas to shape the fate of not only a person, but of a nation at large. Christians live within a spiritual battle of worldviews, and we need to be well equipped to “destroy arguments” (2 Cor. 10:5) and be ready to “give an answer for the hope that is within us” (I Peter 3:15). It is our duty and joy, and it is vitally important. In his book The Historic Reality of Christian Culture, the great historian Christopher Dawson observes:
“I do believe that it has been on the plane of ideas that the process of the secularization of culture began, and that is only by a change of ideas that this process can be reversed.”
On that “plane of ideas”, let’s prepare ourselves with the intellectual armor needed to reverse “the secularization of culture”. Clearing Thinking in Confounding Times exists to equip students, teachers, parents, and pastors to do just that.
