Trinity Christian Academy Upper School chemistry teacher Koshy Daniel has the tools he needs to create a richer, more comprehensive educational experience for his students this school year.
Daniel recently became a Colson Fellow by completing a rigorous, 10-month Christian worldview training program run by the Colson Center.
“It was a big commitment,” he said. “It took a lot of time, a lot of reading, a lot of lessons to go through, a lot of thinking, processing. But for me, that was one of the best experiences I’ve had in my life.”
The Colson Center program involves extensive study, discussion, webinars, and practical application to equip participants to engage culture from a biblical perspective. Completion includes a teaching practicum and personal mission plan.
TCA recently congratulated Daniel on his achievement, highlighting the significance of this professional and personal development step.
Although Daniel was familiar with the Colson Center, a chance exposure to the ministry worldview while attending a conference suggested by his middle school-aged son piqued his interest.
“The way it was explained in these conferences really made a lot of sense to me,” he said, “because as a teacher, I said to myself, ‘I need a means to communicate this to my students.’ They shouldn’t feel like this is someone much older just saying things to them but helping them to understand what a worldview is and how that matters.”
The Colson Fellows Program was founded in 2004 by Chuck Colson, who also founded the non-profit Prison Fellowship and received the Presidential Citizens Medal in 2008.
Colson’s intent was to train Christians in worldview, culture, and biblical theology, countering what he saw as the Christian retreat from intellectual life and the public square. The program was initially launched as the Centurions Program, but, following Colson’s death in 2012, it was renamed the Colson Fellows Program in his honor.
After discussing the program with TCA Director of Biblical Worldview Bob Dyer and its being opened to teachers, Daniel was put on the list in August of 2025.
Now in his eighth year of teaching at TCA, Daniel sees his Colson training as a vital aid in helping students understand the principles that should guide their travels through life.
“How do you see the world?” he posits to his students. “Do you see a purpose in this world? If you have a corrupt or a bad worldview, no matter how much education I give you, it’s not going to improve your values, and, therefore, it’s not going to improve your behavior. I want them to see something much bigger than what is just the academic part of it.”
Though this shift in his teaching is just beginning, Daniel said the response from his students has been encouraging, as they discuss fact versus opinion and compare science, morals, and ethics.
“Science is not everything,” he admitted. “They have to have something else called values. This is what’s going to build what I’m going to later talk about as worldview, so that they see how to get a better picture of the whole world and how they should walk through it. I’m hoping that it makes chemistry fun for all of them, but it makes them deeper thinkers.”
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