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The Spiritual Guidance of Youth
Today’s youth are getting wrong messages about what it means to be free. These erroneous ideas spread on social media faster than a brush fire in Colorado. They convey ideas like, “Freedom is having unlimited choices and experiences… Happiness comes from getting everything you want… Change your appearance, change your life,” etc. These messages lead…
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The Relationship Between Love and Learning
What’s love got to do with it? In a previous post, we explored how to cultivate a love of learning in children. In this post, we will take it a step further in exploring the relationship between love and learning by looking at techniques and outcomes of how we educate our children. First, we have…
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Summer Academics
Should you do summer academics? I get this question from parents often. The temptation is to help children catchup or gain extra practice. Math is an especially common wish for summer academics. In this post, we will look at this question from a few angles to help guide your decision making. This is not meant…
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The Separation of School and State
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We’ve all heard the term, “The separation of church and state.” This principle is a fundamental tenet of American democracy. Its function is to prevent any one religion from dominating American political life. Understood differently, it also prevents the realm of culture from dominating that of legal rights. However, this boundary should go both ways.…
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The 250th Fourth of July
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The Fourth of July celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This year marks the 250th anniversary of that event which founded a new nation in rebellion against tyranny. This was to be a nation with limited government powers, such that We, The People, would be free to become ourselves with as minimal interference…
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The Crux of Being Human
In this article, we will examine the crux of being human. This entails grappling between our eternal and temporal natures. While this post focuses on parents, we will also explain how it applies to the homeschool curriculum. First, however, let’s explore reality as it is. I look outside my window in the morning. The golden…
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The Basis of a Spiritual Education
In this post, we explore the basis of a spiritual education. At first glance, that may raise some eyebrows. “What does he mean by a ‘spiritual education,’” some may wonder for an academy that claims to be secular. I challenged the term “secular” in an earlier post, arguing it’s not well-defined. That to me seems…
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Human Stewardship
Human stewardship means the human being is a/the steward of nature. This is most often found in theological ideas who believe God has entrusted and endowed us with the capacity to steward nature effectively. Growing numbers of adults and students resist this idea. In fact, some look at humans as a virus that, perhaps, the…
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What is a Secular Education?
In the U.S., states will only fund secular education. This is seen as necessary to uphold the separation of church and state. It’s actually a violation of it, and I will address that in another post. However, that’s not the point of this post which is to ask, “What do we mean by a secular…
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The Danger of Materialistic-Reductionism in Education (and What to Do About It)
It goes without saying that the physical is part of reality. We wouldn’t get very far denying that. However, is the physical all there is? Many people these days would answer “yes” or “probably” to this materialistic reductionism. It is the trend of modern cultural life, particularly in the West, and it has destructive, deadening…
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