Texas home schoolers brought home top honors from the National High School Moot Court Competition once again. They competed against public and private school students from all across the country in simulated appellate court proceedings. Moot court tests students’ reasoning and oral advocacy skills, as well as their understanding of the judicial system and Constitutional…
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When I started this journey of home schooling more than fifteen years ago, I really did not have the end in mind. The saying back then, amongst the handful of home schoolers I knew, was, “We are taking one year at a time.” Sounded good to me! Other than knowing why I was keeping my…
Although Encyclopedia Brown is famous for what he did know, Encyclopedia Dad is famous for what he does not know. Knowing so little, how did I earn that nickname? You may have guessed it: by my pernicious habit of stopping whatever I am doing, leaping out of the chair, and bounding over to the bookshelf…
God calls us to develop culture. He placed Adam in the garden to “cultivate” it, after all—and the “cultural mandate” of Genesis 2 is the command of God to all human beings to take dominion and make stuff out of the world. This cultural calling, then, often precedes the development of our worldview. We begin…
A worldview is a way of viewing or interpreting all of reality. It is an interpretive framework through which or by which one makes sense of the data of life and the world. – Norman Geisler, William Watkins It was 1988, the year that Pat Robertson, Jack Kemp, and Pete DuPont ran against George H.W.…
