Donna and I know some Christian people who have changed their tunes over the years about homeschooling.  One lady told us years ago that she was not cut out for that sort of thing.  In fact, we almost got the impression that she thought we were a little weird for homeschooling our children (which is not uncommon).  But a few years later she pulled her one of her teenagers out of public high school for getting in some kind of terrible trouble...

In a recent article I posted on our church website, I detailed some of the significant problems with public education and provided an argument in favor of homeschooling.  Toward the end of that post I mentioned that I am already familiar with some of the objections and challenges in pulling one’s children out of public school, and I would like to address those here and in the posts that follow.   In doing so, I will need to state some...

We were taught about the pilgrims coming to America in grade school but were often are not giving the full picture. To better understand why the Pilgrims left England to come to America, it may be helpful to briefly review the religious landscape of the time.   In the early 1500’s a group of Protestant Reformers in England sought to bring reform to the church in England. These reformers came to be called Puritans mainly because they...

There has always been those who denounce the celebration of the birth of Jesus, most notably the Free Presbyterians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Puritans.  But I have run into a few people within the circles of “Christendom” myself who do not belong to these groups but who also have some reservations about Christmas.  I think after reading this post all concerns about celebrating the birth of Jesus on the grounds of participating...

I saw this post on someone’s Facebook page recently: “You don’t need religion to have morals. If you don’t know the difference between right and wrong, you lack empathy, not religion.”   While this view sounds good on the surface, it is actually contradictory to what many anti-religionists believe about truth. Many non-religious people proclaim that there is no such thing as absolute truth, and they state that absolutely! They have proven...