Restoring the Foundations
I realize that most people who read my articles do so because of the small role I play in North Carolina politics.
Like most women, I wear many hats and my life has many intersections.
Politics, however, is really a minor part of my life and something of a side street.
For 25 years, homeschooling has been my passion, my “career” and in many ways—my identity.
When the world fell apart in 2020, I saw great hope for a resurgence of Truth in education as I watched mass disillusionment and a mass exodus from government schools.
I was hopeful then that the Church would reclaim its rightful place as the center of education, politics—culture.
If it is true that Politics is nothing more than applied worldview—then reason dictates that it is the Church that should be the training ground for foot soldiers.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and the trilogy passages known as the “The Shema” instruct us clearly in the education of children.
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
"Education is discipleship. Its sole purpose is the development of virtue."
-Heidi St. John I will confess that I am recently deflated as I watch the passion that stirred so intensely in 2020 among those who were part of the Exodus begin to diminish.
The homeschool community has grown ever so secular, ever so indifferent, and ever so lukewarm.
I am watching, once again, as parents lead their children toward recreation, extra curricular sports and arts, secular academia, intellectualism, and cultural compromise while abandoning the high calling to train up their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord and to place discipleship and relationship with Jesus at the center of their homes and their homeschools.
I am watching homeschool families hand over their children younger and younger to government programs like “Early College” and/or send them off at age 18 to secular Indoctrination Camps often to bath in the filth of a Godless campus culture only to return sin-scarred, debt burdened, and unrecognizable.
As Voddie Baucham teaches in his “Children of Caesar” series, “If you send your children off to Caesar for an education, don’t be surprised when they return to you as Romans.”
Government education programs often bait even the most sincere parents into yet another “Children for Sale” scheme.
What does it profit a man to gain the world and lose his soul? —Mark 8:36What does it profit our children to gain the world and lose their souls?
In January of 2023, a small group of veteran homeschoolers along with my husband and myself opened “Foundations Homeschool Resource Center” in Johnston County.
We are getting ready to launch a new year and a new program.
We are once again going up against strong logistical, financial, and cultural headwinds.
I will admit that as of this moment, I am almost as disillusioned by the homeschool community as I am the GOP.
But like Abolition, this is not a battlefield I am willing to concede.
The Culture War is raging.
Children are the spoils of war and the battle for their souls and our future is as real as any I have ever engaged in.
Children are my life’s work, and they are worth fighting for.
So here we go again.
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