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In keeping with the spirit of the previous post… little to no commentary… here’s a good clip about one homeschooling family…
very well done
One of my favorite parts is when the homeschooling mom says that people often ask her how she knows if her kids are learning or not… her answer? I’m with them 24/7 so [...]

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It is only one of the many benefits of homeschooling…
My personal favorite homeschool focused blog is Why Homeschool written by Henry and Janine Cate.
Henry has a nice post up today that is a good reminder of the freedom homeschooling can bring…
Henry says…
One of the more important reasons is homeschooling gives families greater freedom. This freedom [...]

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I haven’t heard much about this book yet… The Shack … but it sounds like it is getting pretty popular. It is currently #10 on Amazon.com of ALL books.
When a Christian book gets to be that popular… alarms should be sounding all over the place… see The Prayer of Jabez and Left Behind for examples.
I [...]

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Thanks to Wayne at ekklisia for linking to What Kind of Resurrection? on Dr. Darrell Bock’s blog.
Dr. Bock is one of the main speakers at the Taiwan Missionary Fellowship 2008 Summer Conference.
Although I’ve done some work on the TMF website and currently sit on the administrative committee, I didn’t know Dr. Bock had a blog.
Thanks [...]

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Not an insult… far from it.
I’ve been trying to get through about a million unread items in my feedreader and kept saving Sowell’s articles for later because they are almost always good and thought provoking and I wanted to make sure I had time for them.
The result?
If I clicked “share” on all of them (in [...]

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102 year old Zhou Youguang was fundamental in creating Hanyu pinyin which is the most popular romanization method for Chinese characters.
This is an interesting 4 minute video from the BBC about Zhou and his work.
There are several romanization methods and they all have pros and cons. In the mainland, I think that Zhou’s Hanyu pinyin [...]

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Here’s a fun civics quiz for you to take. It will take about 15 minutes, but is worth your time.
After you take the test, you’ll get to look at some alarming statistics showing that US Colleges and Universities are failing at teaching civics. For many questions, graduating college seniors score lower than incoming freshman. Why [...]

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That’s probably my favorite quote from this absolutely brilliant commentary by Tony Woodlief on “reality based parenting“.
Of course, everyone likes to read things that they agree with… so of course I love this!
There is MUCH WISDOM in this article and I’d recommend it to ANYONE.

If your kids are grown and out of the house, you’ll [...]

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I’m a missionary with an organization called Team Expansion.
One thing I love about Team Expansion is that they allow me to fail. In fact, in some ways, it *could* be said that they encourage me to fail.
WHAT?
Of course, we don’t strive for failure, but I’m glad to know that the home office understands that it [...]

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Although it is at the NRA convention, he speaks more about America and other things than about the right to bear arms.
When we’ve been back in the USA, I’ve always enjoyed when I had the chance to hear Beck’s radio show or watch his TV show. I love it when people shoot straight and he [...]

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