Love and chastity, a teaching series for young teens (Part II)

| January 31, 2011

So here we are, the sometimes dreaded conversation about love and sexuality, from the religious point of view.  Isn’t it strange that something of which you can see an ugly version each afternoon in reality TV shows or at will when you tap into the Internet becomes embarrassing when you talk about it from a religious [...]

Blessings of being a three generation family

| January 31, 2011

We’ve had three generations of us living in the same house for three and a half years now. The adjustment, to what was once the norm, hasn’t always been easy, but we can see clear benefits for all of us. Our children are used to having an older person around and don’t think older people [...]

Health Benefits of Using the Pill Are a Hard Pill to Swallow

| January 31, 2011

Berries in winter

| January 31, 2011

Really, there’s nothing quite like it… After vainly combing the catalogs and internet looking for a plus-size lambswool fair isle cardigan in shades of gray and red (just looking you understand; just wasting time wishing and window shopping, a’course.) After weeks of that, there’s nothing quite like having your daughter set out to the Goodwill [...]

New Hampshire Homeschooling Case: An Issue of…Submission?

| January 6, 2011

I read the following article this morning, and I thought I was in the former USSR: http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/News/PRDetail/4501 Really, what right does a court have to declare that a child must be removed from her homeschool and enrolled in a government school…all because she is deemed to be “too religious”? Scary stuff, right? Then, I read, [...]