There is a reason that Sunday has been set apart as a special day unto the Lord. Jesus rose from the dead on the first day of the week and the Holy Spirit was given to the church on the first day of the week (John 20:1, 19 Acts 2:1-4). If we take Sunday (the …
Three Reasons to Come Clean About Santa This Christmas It is that time of the year when random people in shop queues start asking our children what they are going to get from Father Christmas. I am never quite prepared for this. My children generally tend to me look at me with an alarmed, ‘surely …
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Home Educators: Guard Sound Doctrine There is a Facebook group entitled, ‘Christian Home Educators UK’ that recently posted an ‘inclusivity’ statement. It read that anybody who identifies as a Christian, including Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses, is welcome to join the group and that the admin team remain neutral to controversial topics including ‘creationism, gender identity, …
An Encouragement to the Classical Educator One of the reasons my eye was drawn to this particular book is because it was written by a British teacher about our own schools. Despite the fact that our government annually spends around 100.3 billion pounds of taxpayers’ money on government schools, it is rare to find published …
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Christian Home Educators all know that being able to explain and defend what we do is part and parcel of our educational choice. I am completely fine with this. To swim against the flow in any area of life is going to raise eyebrows and it is good practice to be able to answer questions …
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Home Education: Seizing the Day There is a reason that the writer of Ecclesiastes exhorts his readers to: ‘Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth…’ (Ecclesiastes 12:1) God has means and ways of saving his children, and in the providence of God, one of those means is that for a particular period …
At some point along the road, most home educators will find themselves teaching at least one older child whilst managing a baby, a toddler, or even both! This has been the norm in our home educating lives to date. My youngest set of twins are now four, and for the first time in about …
We are Ambassadors for Christian Home Education As story after story breaks of trans dogma infiltrating UK schools, I often wonder what line must be crossed before Christian parents say, ‘enough is enough. I can no longer in good conscience send my children to the state for their education. From this point forward, I will …
Just because an idea takes the label ‘home education’ does not always mean that it is good. Christian home educators need to be careful to use discernment when we think about our educational philosophy and the idea of unschooling calls for wisdom and thought. One of the problems with unschooling is that it is extremely difficult to …
Do you know what I am going to say? OK, here it is. Time and time again I meet a home educating family and somewhere in the course of the conversation I ask which church they belong to. Awkward silence. ‘We don’t belong to a church at the moment’. In fact, according to my own …
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