Pastor Brooks Potteiger delivered this year's commencement address. The grandson of African missionaries, Pastor Potteiger has faithfully served Christ’s Church from Florida to California, and now in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. He is set to become the first pastor of Christ Church in Washington D.C. in the near future. He is an ordained minister in the CREC and holds Master’s degrees in Christian Apologetics and in Pastoral Care and Counseling. He is a man of wide-ranging interests; enjoying live-edge woodworking, photography, the poetry of George Herbert, the sturdy theology of the Puritans, the creative destruction of a chainsaw, and the deep, resounding laughter that so often accompanies G.K. Chesterton among friends.

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What should Christians make of artificial intelligence?

In this disputatio, Aaron Youngren challenges the dominant cultural narrative surrounding AI, one shaped more by science fiction, materialist assumptions, and fear than by biblical truth. Through an allegory of a blacksmith and a “green god” in the mountains, Youngren reframes the conversation: instead of trembling before new technology, Christians are called to approach it with clarity, courage, and confidence in Christ’s lordship.

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What changed between 1996 and today? In this disputatio at NSA, Wade Stotts explores the nature of prejudice, as the inherited judgments and instincts that shape culture, moral life, and common sense. Beginning with a simple story about a woman putting her feet on a bus seat, Wade traces a much larger question: What happens when a society loses its shared prejudices?

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In this musically rich disputatio, Dr. David Erb leads us through the Scriptures to recover a largely forgotten weapon of spiritual warfare: song.

From the shores of the Red Sea to the reign of Jehoshaphat…

At NSA, musical excellence is not performance, it is preparation. May we not be mere sightseers or hearers, but sight-singers—armed with the Word of Christ, ready for joy, sorrow, worship, and battle.

“Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand.” Psalm 149

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Dr. David R. Erb has taught at New Saint Andrews College since 2008 and is a Senior Fellow of Music and Director of the Conservatory of Music. In addition to choral conducting, Dr. Erb focuses his teaching on training all Christians to be musically literate in light of scriptural teaching. To this end, he is the director and founder of the NSA Summer Music Camp, the Chenaniah Summer Music Institute, the NSA-ACCS High School Honor Choir, and Collegium Musicum Moscow. Dr. Erb formerly served as a Chief Musician for nearly two decades in CREC churches in Washington and Idaho. He is the composer of Cantica Sanctorum, fifty through-composed psalms plus other hymns and scripture settings, and is the co-founder of the music publishing company Praetorius Publications.

New Saint Andrews College was pleased to welcome Dr. Scott Yenor as a guest speaker at Disputatio to address faculty and students.

Scott Yenor, Ph.D. is the Director of the Kenneth B. Simon Center for American Studies at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington Fellow at The Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life, and a professor of political science at Boise State University.

In this lecture, Scott Yenor argues that modern America lives under a regime he calls “compulsory feminism”: a legal and cultural order that reshapes how we rank virtue, honor, and responsibility between the sexes. Yenor contends that while virtue itself is not sexed, virtues and vices “land differently” in men and women, and that denying this reality has contributed to family decline, delayed marriage, and demographic collapse.

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Nick Solheim, CEO of American Moment, delivers a disputatio talk at New Saint Andrews College, challenging students to think seriously about power, patronage, and the future of American self-government.

Speaking candidly about Washington, D.C., institutional capture, and the failures of both political parties, Solheim argues that winning elections is not enough. Governing requires personnel, formation, and the disciplined use of power. He argues that conservatives must build durable institutions rather than retreat from public life, and that “personnel is policy,” grounding his case in American history, civil service reforms, and the experience of the Trump administrations.

Nick Solheim has distinguished himself through courage, conviction, and principled leadership within America’s political landscape, contributing meaningfully to the formation of the next generation of public servants.

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In this Disputatio lecture at New Saint Andrews College, President Dr. Ben Merkle addresses the nature of work, ambition, and frustration in light of the biblical curse and calling. Dr. Merkle reflects on how frustration in labor is not accidental, but formative, and how Christian ambition must be rightly ordered rather than abandoned. Drawing from Scripture and pastoral wisdom, this talk challenges students to aim high, embrace responsibility, and persevere through the inevitable difficulties of work without losing heart. Far from discouraging ambition, Dr. Merkle exhorts the students to pursue lofty callings with faithfulness, endurance, and humility before God.

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Ben Greenfield is a health consultant, speaker, and New York Times bestselling author of a wide variety of books, including the widely popular titles Boundless Parenting, Boundless Kitchen, Beyond Training, Boundless, Fit Soul, Spiritual Disciplines Journal, the Boundless Cookbook, and Endure. A former collegiate tennis, water polo, and volleyball player, bodybuilder, 13-time Ironman triathlete, and professional obstacle course racer, Ben has been voted by the NSCA as America’s top Personal Trainer and by Greatist as one of the top 100 Most Influential People In Health And Fitness. 

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New Saint Andrews College welcomed Matt Reynolds of Barbell Logic for a special Disputatio lecture on Friday, November 14, 2025.

With over 25 years of experience in strength sports, coaching, and entrepreneurship, Matt is now challenging a generation to break free from the tyranny of urgency — to reclaim time for the things that truly matter. His recent book, Undoing Urgency: Reclaim Your Time for the Things That Matter Most, is a clarion call to align our days with what truly matters. Reynold’s new book was awarded the 2025 Global Book Awards Gold Medal in Business Development.

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This engaging debate featured Dr. Timothy Harmon, VP of Academics and CAO at New Saint Andrews College, and Dr. Gracjan Kraszewski, Director of Intellectual Formation at St. Augustine’s Catholic Center at the University of Idaho.

Together, they tackled questions like:

• In justification, does God infuse righteousness into us over the course of our lives, or does he pronounce a verdict of righteousness over us at a definitive point in time?

• Is the formal cause of justification the perfect obedience of Christ, which we receive by faith, or is it the righteousness of God poured into us by the Holy Spirit?

• What is the role of faith in justification? What is the role of our good works in justification?

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