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- LIFESTYLE
- February 6, 2015
Home schooling is all the rage nowadays. Thousands of parents are pulling their children out of public schools to try their own hand at teaching. In a spirit of self-reliance they become do-it-yourself professors. Some evangelical leaders are jumping on the home-schooling bandwagon. Exodus 2000 and Rescue 2010 are the most dramatic manifestations of a
READ MOREWhich brings us to American parents' penchant for jettisoning their children when they should still be at the breast or in a high chair or working, playing, and learning with mother at home. The state of the family today is perilous; with child rejection leading regressively to family breakdown, divorce, mixed families, fatherless children, single
READ MOREMany of those who believe the government should take on the task of promoting Christian morality are focusing their attention on the public schools. And why not, one might ask, since schools are plagued by crime and drugs. Seemingly only an atheistic killjoy could take pleasure in squelching an innocent public prayer in school. The
READ MOREParker has been billed as a converted and reformed welfare mother who has become a fiery orator for conservative Christian political causes. Given her newness to the political fray, perhaps she could be forgiven for not knowing the history of church state separation and the value inherent in this arrangement for protecting the liberty of
READ MOREThe Seventh-day Adventist Church, in common with all major Christian denominations, places a high premium on education. Worldwide the church operates a total of 5,464 elementary and secondary schools, with 1,024 of them in North America. In the United States, these schools are part of the 6 million students in 27,000 schools who attend non-public
READ MOREIt is this concern for our culture that spurs calls for a reinstitution of prayer and Bible reading in public schools. Given my church background, some are surprised to hear my response to such requests. While I understand the anger and frustration many feel toward the federal courts and those who use the courts to
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