Earlier this year, we got some chickens. We had talked about getting them but hadn’t super planned about when. I thought later in the year. But suddenly, Becca found them at the Co-Op. The kids got excited. I saw dollar signs. I often think about what kind of life I want my kids to grow …
Category Archives: History
A Slowburn that Changed Your World
A little old man hobbles out of his house in a tizzy. His mailbox had just been knocked over by a child. The child, a thirty-something-year-old construction worker was just doing what he was told. “What’s the big idea?” screamed the senior in delirium. The young man just stood there, not sure how to respond …
The Prophecy and Warning of Captain Ahab
When I read a fiction book, I either want to enjoy the writing style of the author, be interested by the story being told, or I want to get encouragement to go out and do something more with my life. I like to learn and escape into another world for a bit as long it …
What is “Classical” about Classical Education?
I’m not entirely sure why, but I really prefer to know where ideas come from, like who influenced what. Like how did it become mainstream for people to think they could decide their own reality and if they were a man, a woman, or a cat? Even 50 years ago, if someone had said that …
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Do Kids Just Need a Slap to the Head?
Guerrilla Education : Teaching From the Trenches (Part 2) There once was a time in the not too distant past that any education was seen as a blessing and a gift. Most people before 200-300 years ago did not know even how to read. It was a skill for the upper class. Reading was a way …
Laws for Freedom’s Sake
Liberty For All The more time that I spend learning, the more that I am convinced that story is the best way to learn. There is something infectious about it. Stories get into the bones of a person that just won’t let go. The younger that a person can hear the right stories and be …
No Matter Your Path, We All Have One Center
The Center of It All It is strange that the summer is heating up and winding down all of a sudden. School is upon us. Those of us who teach are looking forward to the new year with new students and subjects. I have yet to learn exactly what I will be teaching this year, …
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A Life to Save Thousands
A Desire Worth Dying for…Liberty for All As I am writing this, I am on a ferry on my way back to England after visiting France. It is July 3rd, 2023. In France, I, along with a couple dozen of my students, experienced some of the beaches of D-Day and the US Cemetery in Normandy. …
Why Christians Have a Duty to Defy/Defend Some Governing Authorities
There is a reason that America is called the Great Experiment. It was founded at a time of great political and religious turmoil. The time of the 1500s-1800s was a time of revolts, secessions, and schisms. Countries, rulers, and churches were all coming and going. I’m welcomed to being fact checked, but as far as …
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A Christian’s Responsibility to Submit to Authority
Covid-19 and the year 2020 was a hard time for most people on many different levels. Society was shut down, for good or evil. Jobs lost. Drug and alcohol use skyrocketed. People were encouraged to turn on their brothers and sisters for merely going outside. It was a dark and lonely time for most of …
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