To Homeschooling’s “Old Guard:” 20 Truths You Need to Hear

May 31, 2013 By 8 Comments
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by Heather Doney cross posted from her blog Becoming Worldly   This is a post for homeschooling’s “old guard,” the people who first started homeschooling and unschooling back in the day. Writing this post has been hard to do. I do not want to make enemies of the old guard unschoolers and homeschoolers. I just [...]

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Quoting Quiverfull: Fear of Any Government?

May 31, 2013 By 19 Comments
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by Vaughn Ohlman from Perservero News – Imaginary Money and Fairy-Tale Business Take the minimum wage… one of the many issues that is destroying the South African economy. The government thinks that by telling people that they have to pay people more, that, somehow, people will make more. But in reality

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A Call For Contributions to HA’s Upcoming Self-Injury Awareness Series

May 30, 2013 By 2 Comments
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Cross posted from Homeschoolers Anonymous A Call for Contributions to HA’s Upcoming Self-Injury Awareness Series  By R.L. Stollar, HA Community Coordinator I vividly remember the day when cutting struck close to home.

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Quoting Quiverfull: Clumsy and Unfeeling?

May 30, 2013 By 10 Comments
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by Debi Pearl of No Greater Joy in “Cloistered Fruit” To most young brides the husband appears clumsy and unfeeling. But as the wife continues to obey and reverence her young husband,

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Quoting Quiverfull: Explaining Self-Editing?

May 28, 2013 By 7 Comments
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by Tony Reinke from John Piper’s Desiring God – “Those Deleted Tweets” Monday night, in the wake of the devastating tornado in Oklahoma, John Piper posted two tweets at 11:00pm (CST). Both tweets quoted the first chapter of Job.

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