Category Archives: religion

Right wing fundamentalists take over school in hostage drill

With a dramatic introduction, the Burlington County Times reports on a disturbing hostage drill at the Burlington Township High School.
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP — The scenario has played out in real life across America: Gunfire echoes through a school and students are held hostage.
Thankfully, school shootings are not all that common and I hope they never have [...]

Some thoughts on the Grand Canyon controversy

From PublishersWeekly:
A three-year old controversy over a book espousing a young-earth Creationist view being sold at the Grand Canyon visitors center has resurfaced, with renewed media attention and more they-said, they-said hullabaloo.
In spite of the ongoing squabble, a National Park Service spokesman said it’s unlikely to review the sale at the Grand Canyon National Park [...]

Religious expression in the public schools

Occasionally, an odd search term brings a visitor to my blog, and I often wonder what they were thinking when they typed in their search. Perhaps, like I used to do, they were merely bored and typing in strange queries to see what would happen. I used to be quite highly ranked on [...]

Religion and Science

My email box has been flooded recently with a variety of links regarding the inherently violent nature of religion with only one clear conclusion to be drawn: religion is a social ill which needs to be corrected. Or, to use their terminology, a cultural virus to be vaccinated against.
Richard Dawkins equates religious instruction [...]

Family as Idol

Many on my side of the homeschooling fence subscribe to one or more of these philosophies, which gave me pause to think. Are we worshipping idols, family style?
The bad fruit of misunderstanding God’s foundational purpose is often a form of idolatry. Our family (or worse yet, the family-integrated ministry model) becomes a [...]

Declaring His Power

OK, I posted the link to the first part of the article I wrote for Homeschool Enrichment Magazine that posted on Crosswalk. Now, all three sections are up. I hope you enjoy it.
Part I:
http://www.crosswalk.com/family/home_school/1443897.html
Part II:
http://crosswalk.com/family/home_school/1445926.html
Part III:
http://crosswalk.com/family/home_school/1446683.html
Related Tags: homeschooling, homeschool, home school, Christian, faith

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