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Conversations on Abortion 22 Sep 2012 | 08:23 pm
I engaged in a conversation about abortion with an abortion advocate (I refuse to use the term pro-choice as a meaningless, post-modern sound bite). I wanted to understand their reasoning. Her point i...
Can We Do Science Without Philosophy? 22 Jun 2012 | 11:01 pm
Lawrence M. Krauss, a well-known cosmologist and popular-science writer, wrote a new book titled A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing, in which he claims that the laws o...
Teaching Children About Music 20 Jun 2012 | 10:39 pm
When I was about nine years old, my mom purchased a Steinway upright piano and hired a music teacher to give me and my brothers lessons a couple of times a week. My brothers, twins one year younger th...
Teaching Children About Hyperreality 8 Jun 2012 | 10:26 pm
Unless you lived in a cave in Uzbekistan for the past thirty years, you know we now live in a postmodern western world that is increasingly rejecting its Judeo-Christian roots in favor of subjective r...
Long Beach Home School Convention 31 May 2012 | 06:22 am
Hannah and I left the children with my sister-in-law on Saturday and drove to the Long Beach convention center for the California Homeschool Convention. We arrived around 11:15 am and parked the car ...
Sin, or Jesus Died in Vain 26 May 2012 | 04:18 pm
There’s an evangelical preacher who goes to university campuses to preach the gospel. He’s been doing it for forty years, and his provocative style draws crowds and quite a bit of a stir wherever he g...
Why Is the Future Bankrupt? 18 May 2012 | 01:42 am
Once upon a time the younger generation was expected to be better off than their parents. By the way the wind has been blowing in the last five years, it doesn’t look like it anymore. Young people see...
What Is the Real Purpose of Education? 14 May 2012 | 05:45 am
We didn’t make it to the CFS Expo Homeschool Convention yesterday. My sister-in-law had to go to a funeral and could not watch the children. This gets you thinking. Here we are, making plans and addin...
2012 Homeschool Conventions 11 May 2012 | 01:25 pm
Homeschool conventions are a great opportunity for parents to check out curricula and to listen to the advice of experienced homeschol veterans. For those of us who live in Southern California, there...
Is Christianity Absurd? 9 May 2012 | 02:15 am
The other day I stumbled upon a user forum discussion with a catchy title, “Christianity is founded on four absurdities.” Here they are according to the original poster: Absurdity #1: The Scapegoat s...
