With the Leader plan you can run a class for your small group, youth group, or classroom — the coach handles the daily material, you lead the people. Here is the whole flow, from creating the class to your first student joining.
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12 of 30 students
Prompt active · ends Jul 31
8 of 15 members
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Everything lives under Groups & Classes — reachable from the Your classes card on Home. Leaders get the + Create a class button at the top.
Every class you lead or attend shows here, with an active-prompt line so you always know where the action is.
Full, intensive training — 4 debate days, 2 coursework days, and a weekly summary.
Lighter, budget-friendly for small groups and churches — 2 debate days, 1 coursework day, a summary.
The coach reads where your class is, proposes each day's prompt, and sketches the arc ahead. You approve or change anything.
Upload a document or pick a topic; the coach builds a day-by-day term plan you approve.
Coaching is the full, intensive rhythm — four debate days, two coursework days, and a weekly summary. Ministry is lighter and budget-friendly for small groups and churches.
Then choose how content gets made: Free-flowing (the coach proposes each day's prompt as it reads your class) or Curriculum (a day-by-day term plan you approve up front).
By creating a class, you take responsibility for the students you lead. Their privacy is protected — you only see what they choose to share. The Why does not endorse any class or its content.
Give the class a name and an optional description, then pick the number of seats — presets up to 50, or a custom size.
The disclaimer matters: you take responsibility for the students you lead, and their privacy is protected — you only ever see what they choose to share.
Next, build your schedule. Share this code with students when you're ready:
The moment the class exists you get its 8-character invite code, with a Share code button that sends "Join my class on The Why app!" to any chat or email.
The code also lives permanently on the class page, and you can make the class discoverable by name so students can find it by searching.
Manuscripts, canon, contradictions, and archaeology — why Scripture holds up.
The problem of evil — the hardest objection, handled with both rigor and tenderness.
Not sure where to start? Pick a preset — Does God Exist?, Who Is Jesus?, Can I Trust the Bible? and more, each a ready-made multi-week course.
Or describe a topic in your own words, paste your curriculum, or upload a PDF or Word document — the coach turns any of them into a weekly rhythm of coursework and debate days.
⚑ Within Protestant teaching
The plan tracks the historic consensus on inspiration and canon. No positions flagged.
Understand genre, dating, and authorship before touching objections.
Nothing reaches students until you approve it. The draft opens with a doctrinal review — the coach builds your course faithfully, then flags anything outside Protestant teaching so you see it before your class does. It checks every lesson, every question and every answer key, not just your source.
Each week shows its objective and days: amber Debate, blue Coursework, green Summary.
12 of 30 students
Your exchange and debrief are your class's teaching material. Each student who completes this prompt will read yours next to their own.
9 of 12 members completed (75%)
Once approved, you publish days one at a time (or flip on Auto-advance daily). The class page shows today's prompt, who has completed it, and debriefs students chose to share.
Your own exchange is the class's teaching material: complete the prompt yourself and each student reads your debrief next to their own.
Enter the 8-character invite code from your leader.
Led by Sam · 12 of 30 seats filled
Students open Join a Class, type the 8-character code (or search the class by name if you made it discoverable), and get a welcome that sets expectations: the leader guides the class, debates stay private unless shared, and they can leave anytime.
If your class carries a seat fee, payment happens securely on the web before the seat is claimed — and churches can cover seats in bulk from the class page.