If She Tries to Resist, Assimilate Her!

Just a very brief outline of what was upsetting me yesterday, and will no doubt continue to unsettle for a while. Last year when Mum moved in with us, I took her along to a Women's mental health support group which was run by a national charity known as Rethink Mental Illness. I was surprised …

No Treasure But Hope

I really know very little about Irish history, it is not something we are taught in British schools (not even the British side of the story - it's just brushed aside completely, at least it was when I was at school, and I doubt things have changed significantly in that regard) which makes me a …

New Start for 2016 #homeed

I'm still pondering and planning the specific details of what our home education will look like for the new term and the new year. But I think now is a good time for a re-think, so I'm starting with a new look and I've moved the virtual 'furniture' around a bit. (what do you think?!) …

More thoughts on the SCOTUS ruling

Following on from my earlier post which looked at the SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage from a liberty / legal / government / democracy point of view, I said I would post again looking at the ruling from a religious / moral perspective. I haven't waded into the debate on homosexuality previously, because I feel …

Thoughts on the SCOTUS gay marriage ruling

I'm seeing rainbows everywhere and it's all very pretty... But I'm curious to understand how the Supreme Court of the United States works, how did the case come before the Supreme Court, who brought the case, and is the granting of rights over all of the states the norm, or is it unprecedented? Is the …

Election Thoughts

On a selfish note: For myself, and for every other home educating family in the UK, I am mightily relieved that our liberty is not immediately threatened as it would unequivocally have been had Labour won. Ed Balls specifically told us that he would “finish the job” of eradicating us if Labour got back in. …

Thoughts on Steve Chalke and Yoder: until women are free, nobody is free.

I have heard the name Yoder a few times but did not realise that his works were considered so important. How dreadful and sad that a man who wrote about pacifism should perpetrate violence, and on such a scale. But perhaps even sadder still is the church's continued dismissal of his sexual abuse as irrelevant …