“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings” (Proverbs 25:2 NIV). Have you ever been spelunking? When contemplating Socratic discussion, I like to think of it metaphorically as spelunking. Spelunking means cave exploring, and one who explores...
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Revisiting Some Archived Articles that Have Not Been Lost, but May Have Been Forgotten and Are Worth a Fresh Read Original Post Date: August 31, 2012 Last month, my article entitled “Electronics for Everyone” covered the basics of how electronics work and what a circuit is. If you have...
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Spring is in full bloom; April is quickly becoming history and May is soon to be upon us. Many Foundations programs are complete and for Challenge students the end is near. But… As we breathe a well-earned sigh of relief, we must face the facts—the glorious facts—that the end...
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“The only spiritual or philosophical objection to steam-engines is not that men pay for them or work at them, or make them very ugly, or even that men are killed by them; but merely that men do not play at them.” — G.K. Chesterton Cosmology is the study of...
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The Peacemaker Monthly The Beauty of Forgiveness by Cara McLauchlan “Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” — Colossians 3:13 I will never forget the day my sister let me drive her brand new red truck....
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Revisiting Some Archived Articles that Have Not Been Lost, but May Have Been Forgotten and Are Worth a Fresh Read Original Post Date: July 18, 2012 Part 1: The Simplest Circuit In our present digital age, kids are in love with anything involving electricity. They are amazed by their...
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The difference between “crashing” a computer and “smashing” a computer is subtle, but highly satisfying. Until last year, my long-since-dysfunctional school computer had been gathering dust in a hall closet. Preparing for a move, I wanted to be rid of it, but I was also leery of data security,...
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In Challenge B, Classical Conversations students investigate and discuss claims of the origins of life, centered on the book Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds by Phillip Johnson. In the book, Johnson introduces students to a new theory called Intelligent Design. Unfortunately, most people have either never heard of Intelligent Design or...
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This article originally appeared on the blog Hays Haus. We hope you enjoy reading it here. As parents, we have the opportunity to instill countless habits, tendencies, or trajectories in our children’s lives. Some of these come naturally by virtue of the atmosphere of our households; we simply breathe...
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“And there was evening, and there was morning, the first day.” When I read Scripture aloud with my children, I see things differently. Years ago, when my children were nine, seven, and four, we read through Exodus and the descriptions of the Tabernacle. Their curiosity caused me to see...
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Revisiting Some Archived Articles that Have Not Been Lost, but May Have Been Forgotten and Are Worth a Fresh Read Original Post Date: April 1, 2014 Easter is almost upon us! But before we can celebrate Easter we must first pass through the forty days before Easter, known as...
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“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.” —Francis Bacon Devices of style make our writing come alive! Figures of speech, also called devices of style, are “a form of speech, artfully varied from common usage.” 1 Students who...
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