Picking Things Up from the Culture, Homeschool Edition

“For all of homeschooling parents’ rhetoric about how ‘peer dependent’ public schooled children are, we homeschooled children could be quite influenced by our homeschooled peers.”

Why I Cannot Support Frontline Family Ministries’ Abuse Prevention Week: Part Four, Not Open

“Not Open argues that Christians in 2014 face a uniquely apocalyptic moment in history. Basically, the American Christian sky is falling.”

Doug Phillips: The Sex Abuse Lawsuit Conclusion and Epilogue of His Vision Forum Shipwreck

However, it feels like Phillips got away with harming much more than a Titanic-full of people.

The Ideology of Underage Marriages in Conservative Christianity

Rather than at least remaining neutral on the subject or better yet, speaking up for voiceless girls and young women like the Bible adjures Christians to do, certain teachers, preachers, and celebrities like Swanson, Bruehner, Robertson, the Duggar family, and others, actively encourage early marriage, even child marriage…

I’m One Of the Lucky Ones: Muriel Sylvanus’ Story

Muriel blogs at StoryCache. As I’m sitting here contemplating my homeschool-to-college story and how to write about it, I think of all the other stories my homeschool brothers and sisters will have to tell alongside mine, and I think… “I’m one of the lucky ones.” For all the positive stories of a seamless transition, I expect there to be war

Dreaming of a Way Out: Mina’s Story

While it was a technical school, it was VERY hard for me…Keeping up was hard – I had no context for the things I was being taught, and I really struggled.

Living with Cognitive Dissonance: Sonia’s Story

So, after a few years when I started noticing things weren’t adding up, I asked more questions and assumed, logically, that if my parents could bend the rules and pick and choose where they saw fit, I could too as long as I had a logical, reasonable explanation for wanting to do so.

Lightbulb. Obviously, we all know this wasn’t true, but I didn’t know that at the time, so I was very confused. This is where I ran into trouble.

The Child as Viper: How Voddie Baucham’s Theology of Children Promotes Abuse

Voddie Baucham’s theology of children needs to be called out for what it is: unbiblical, contemptuous, and abusive.

Transcript of Voddie Baucham’s “Child Training” Sermon at Hardin Baptist Church

The full transcript of Voddie Baucham’s “Child Training” sermon at Hardin Baptist Church, in which he claims a child is “a viper in a diaper.”

Plowshares into Skyhooks: The Evolution (Intelligent Design?) of Bible Games: By Aaron Gotzon

“We had hit novels, major motion pictures. We refitted holidays to eliminate pagan (or even neutral) elements, and had our own youth organizations, like AWANA… And, of course, we had our own games.”