Mt. Sophia Ideas

Sunday will be — or was (depending on when you read this) — the 4th of July.  We Americans will be — or were — celebrating our independence.
From what? you might ask.
From our oppressors, we would respond.
The English? you ask. (Poor English people. Can you imagine them watching us celebrate being independent from them every [...]

I think C.S. Lewis wrote an essay with that title once. So I decided to borrow it.
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I was thinking, the other day, about the Classics. You all make your children read them during the school year, and maybe even over the summer. And I bet you’ve all heard some complaint to the effect of, “Why [...]

While drinking my morning tea on April Fools’ Day, I stumbled across an article entitled, “Increasing Number of Parents Opting to Have Their Children School-Homed.”
It’s from The Onion, a fake newspaper/news site, full of satire and spoofs of current culture.  And while I can’t recommend the site in general (it ranges from the completely innocuous [...]

Have you heard the one about the homeschooling family who fled Germany to seek political asylum in the US?
Evidently, homeschooling in Germany is seriously illegal.  And if you read the article, you’ll see that everything homeschoolers are afraid of here in the US actually happens in Germany.
Home School Legal Defense Association assisted in the process [...]

“How can you teach trigonometry (or writing, or chemistry, or philosophy)?”
We’ve all been asked about our qualifications for teaching our children. We’ve all come up with some variation of “we learn it together” or “I find another mom/dad who helps with that, while I teach from my area of expertise” or “we find an online [...]

Words- by Richard Foster
I urge upon us words that are crisp and clear and imaginative. Mark Twain said that the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug! We need to love God all the way down to our nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
Oh, [...]