This is NOT Homeschooling: Is HSLDA Part of a “Bible-Based Cult”?

May 15, 2013 By 10 Comments
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by Heather Doney This may be the most important and most scary post on homeschooling that I have ever written. It feels like something out of a Margaret Atwood novel and I am numb as I write this, so please bear with me. The title of this post is not rhetorical. It is a question [...]

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Quoting Quiverfull: Feminization

March 18, 2013 By 2 Comments
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by R. J. Rushdoony from Chalcedon Teacher Training Institute founder Andrea Schwartz’s blog Words From Andrea – “Putting Women in their Place” – January 10, 2013 The tragedy of the women’s rights

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Happy is the Man That Has His Quiver Full of Them

February 18, 2013 By 17 Comments
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by Bruce Gerencser When Polly and I married in 1978, we planned to have three children.  We wanted to wait a year or so before we started having children, but six-weeks into marriage Polly became pregnant. Our son Jason was seven weeks before our first wedding anniversary. In 1981, Nathan

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Quoting Quiverfull: Return to Biblical Doctrine

February 18, 2013 By 5 Comments
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by R.J. Rushdooney at Ladies Against Feminism The tragedy of the women’s rights movement was that, although it had serious wrongs to correct, it added to the problem, and here the resistance of man was in as large a measure responsible. Instead of restoring

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