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Seven Quick Takes on Bible Study Winner, Hiking, Las Vegas, and MORE!

:: 1 :: I am thrilled to announce that the winner of the Gospel of John Journal and Doodle Bible Study is Christa Walker! Congratulations, Christa! ♥ For the rest of you, the discount code that will give you 20% off this brand new John study by Kari Denker is AFTERTHOUGHTS20 and is only good until tomorrow so don’t forget to use it before it expires! :: 2 :: Last week was our break week, and so we went hiking Continue Reading…
March 4, 2016
Home Education
Cartographic Propaganda

I wasn’t going to write anything today. I wasn’t going to write anything for a week. Maybe longer! But I haven’t done a sarcastic political piece in a while, and frankly, this is driving me nuts. Really? We’re going to take our map cues from a television show? This is the webpage that seems to be going viral, and in it is embedded this video {below} if you don’t want to jump over. There is a verse which comes to Continue Reading…
November 2, 2013
Diogenes’ Great Dilemma

If I were better at writing jokes, I’d tell you one right now about a Pharisee and a politician. Unfortunately, no punchline is coming to me at the moment. Perhaps it’s because politicians are amusing me less and less, and Pharisees have hardly ever been funny. I was reading out of Matthew 21 to my children recently, and something jumped out at me that I hadn’t paid much attention to before: And when [Jesus] was come into the temple, the Continue Reading…
September 12, 2013
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Understanding Guns in America: Res Publica, the Nature of a Republic

“The Hardscrabble boys came to school today, Royal tells me.” “Yes,” Mr. Corse said. “I hear they’re saying they’ll throw you out.” Mr. Corse said, “I guess they’ll be trying it.” [snip] “They have driven out two teachers,” he said. “Last year they hurt Jonas Lane so bad he died of it later.” “Bill Ritchie, come up here.” Big Bill jumped up and tore off his coat, yelling: “Come on, boys!” He rushed up the aisle. Almanzo felt sick Continue Reading…
January 24, 2013