Posted in Religion, tagged Arda June Gent, Arda Rushdoony, Armenian genocide, Bill Gothard, Calvinism, Center for American Studies, Christianity Today, Debi Pearl, Dominion Theology, Francis Schaeffer, Gary North, Greg L. Bahnsen, Gregg Harris, John W. Whitehead, Mary Pride, Michael J. McVicar, Michael Pearl, OPC, Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Owyhee, Pat Robertson, PCUSA, Presbyterian Church USA, Reconstruction, Rousas J. Rushdoony, Rousas Rushdoony, Rutherford Institute, TRI, Tyler Theology, Volker Fund, Westminster Presbyterian Church on March 19, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Record: Michael J. McVicar, Christian Reconstruction: R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015)
Summary: McVicar, who teaches in the Religion department at Florida State, here provides us with a book-length biography of one of the most important early U.S. homeschooling leaders. Rushdoony is not always put in the same tier of standout leaders as John Holt and Raymond and Dorothy Moore, but I argued in my 2008 history
Posted in Family life, History of Homeschooling, Motherhood, Parental motivation, tagged Above Rubies, Allan Carlson, Bill Gothard, Birthrates, Botkin Sisters, Carmon Friedrich, Charles Provan, Constitution Party, Dawn Irons, Debi Pearl, Doug Phillips, Focus on the Family, Francis Schaeffer, Howard Phillips, James Dobson, Jan Hess, Jerry Falwell, Jonathan Falwell, Jr., Kathryn Joyce, Martha Peace, Mary Pride, Michael Pearl, Moral Majority, Nancy Campbell, No Greater Joy, Patriarchy, Philip Lancaster, Phillip Longman, Quiverfull, R.C. Sproul, Rachel Scott, Rick Hess, Rousas Rushdoony, Southern Baptist Convention on June 22, 2009| 4 Comments »
This post reviews Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
Joyce, a freelance journalist based in New York City, here pens an important book on one of the most dynamic subcultures within the homeschooling world: “quiverfull” families where father is patriarchal lord, mother is submissive breeder of as many children as God provides, sons are trained to be arrows used in battle against secularism, and daughters are given a sex-specific home education to prepare them to be obedient wives and dutiful mothers. (more…)
Posted in Minority Homeschooling, Motherhood, Parental motivation, tagged Amy Tan, Bill Gothard, Chinese homeschooling, Chinese mothers, Chinese-Americans, Confucius, Laura Li-Hua Sun, Michael Pearl, No Greater Joy Ministries, overseas born homeschoolers on March 20, 2009| 1 Comment »
This post reviews Laura Li-Hua Sun, “Dare to Home School: Faith and Cultural Experiences of Chinese Christian Mothers” (Ph.D. Dissertation, Biola University, 2007). [Link to dissertation here]
Sun begins by explaining how important formal education is to the Chinese, who see it as a means of maintaining their privileged status as “children of the dragon” over other people groups. Yet despite this powerful cultural tradition, some Chinese Christian mothers are choosing homeschooling. Why? (more…)
A second, fully revised edition of my 2008 book Homeschool: An American History, was published in March of 2017. Get it here!
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