A lawyer friend of mine once told me never to ask someone a question to which you don’t already anticipate the answer: you may be surprised by the answer you receive. Last Tuesday a random email came to America Vision’s inbox. The message was half inquiry, half clever marketing. The writer said, I would greatly [...]
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I am not surprised by the SAT scores comparison between the three groups: homeschoolers, religious-based private schools, and public schools. Homeschoolers beat the other two groups in every category, and consistently score above the 84th percentile in every category. Only 29 per cent of the homeschooling fathers and 13 per cent of the mothers have [...]
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When Reb Bradley published his article, “Solving the Crisis in Homeschooling,” it deservedly received much attention from the homeschool community in the US. The article is an honest estimate of the blind spots in homeschooling, told by a homeschooling father who is looking back and assessing the mistakes he has made; and also the mistakes [...]
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More from my “county rights” project: part two of three on education. After this, we’ll talk about how to take back the freedom. Restoring America: One County at a Time Chapter 1: Education 1.2 How Freedom Was Lost In the last article, I discussed how free, purely private education was the American way, and it [...]
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Of the surprisingly few flak shots I took for my article last week, one question stood out above the others, when discussing my treatment of Pastor Tom Stein: Can I really call him a heretic, and can I really recommend his excommunication for his position? A few readers expressed this concern, and one even added [...]
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1. Read at least 10 pages every day of a non-fiction book in various fields: science, history, literature, music, art, science fiction, theology, economics, etc. Increase it by one page per day until you get it up to 20 pages per day. R. J. Rushdoony read at least one book a day—“underlined, with a personal [...]
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Modern Christianity is known, among other things, for teaching the idea of God’s unconditional love. It is often spoken of in terms of evangelism, when believers express their concern for the "afterlife" of unbelievers. "God loves you unconditionally," they tell their unbelieving audience, "and He wants you to be with Him in heaven."
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There is an interesting passage in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow that has stuck in my mind ever since I first read it. If you have never read this short story, you should. It takes about an hour to read and it is a masterwork of flowing prose; the words seem to almost fall off the page. Aspiring writers should certainly read this story for an example of powerful writing, but I would also recommend that non-writers read it to get a sense of how much popular literature has degraded since Irving wrote his story in 1820.
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While I was eating lunch on Election Day 2008, I was reading an article written by Michael McVicar titled “‘First Owyhee and Then the World’: The Early Ministry of R. J. Rushdoony” that was published in the November/December 2008 issue of Faith for All of Life, a publication of the Chalcedon Foundation. As the title [...]
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Liberals know that conservatives grow weary fighting spiritual battles. In time, they throw up their hands and say that there are more important “spiritual things” to do. They don’t want to fight anymore, because they believe that divisions divide churches and hurt the ministry of the gospel.
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