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 Religion, tagged Abraham Kuyper, Bill Gothard, Calvinism, Chris Klicka, Christian Liberty Academy, CLASS, Cornelius Van Til, Dominion, Fairfax Christian School, Faith Baptist Church, FL, Gary DeMar, Gary North, George Grant, Joel McDurmon, Julie Ingersoll, Julie J. Ingersoll, Kevin Swanson, Libby Anne, Louisville, Mark A. Thoburn, Mark Thoburn, Niceville, Puritans, R. L. Dabney, Ray Sutton, Reconstruction, Reconstructionism, Robert L. Thoburn, Rocky Bayou Christian School, Rousas J. Rushdoony, Rousas Rushdoony, Sphere Sovereignty, Vision Forum on March 19, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Record: Julie J. Ingersoll, Building God’s Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) [Available Here
Summary: Ingersoll is in a unique position to write a book like this. As a young woman she was married to one of the sons of prominent Reconstructionist Bob Thoburn and was very active in several Religious Right organizations. She and Mark Thoburn divorced in the early 1990s and Julie spent most of that decade earning a Ph.D. in Religious Studies, eventually becoming a professor at the University of North Florida. Her dissertation was published in 2003 as Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles
Posted in History of Homeschooling, tagged 10 Commandments, 14th Amendment, African Americans, Baptist, Biblical Criticism, Bill of Rights, Blasphemy laws, blue laws, Catholics, Civil War, Constitution, Culture War, Darwinism, David Sehat, Decency laws, Dred Scott, Evangelical, Evolution, First Amendment, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, freethinkers, godless Constitution, Great Depression, James Madison, Methodist, moral establishment, Moral Majority, Reconstruction, Second Great Awakening, slavery, Ten Commandments on April 12, 2012| 1 Comment »
This post reviews David Sehat, The Myth of American Religious Freedom
Let me start off by saying that I absolutely loved this book. It’s my favorite kind of history. Sehat takes one idea and traces its history from the American founding to the present, giving his readers a deep understanding of the concept even as we are disabused of some common misperceptions along the way. The concept here is American religious freedom. The misperceptions are these. Liberals often speak as if from our founding the United States has been a secular nation and that Christian efforts to impose Christian morality on everyone else are out of step with this history. Conservatives often speak as if the United States has always been a Christian nation, and that Christianity is in fact the basis of the religious freedom we all hold so dear. Both are wrong.
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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Homeschooling Research Notes 