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This page is produced by Robert and Christina Moore from Franklin, Mass., who home school their three children, Susanna (11), Elizabeth (9) and David (7). Some of the Moores' home schooling motivation can be understood by a quote they take from John Dunphy, "The New Faith of Humanism and Teachers", The Humanist Magazine, January/February, 1983: "I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith, ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the educational level. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new--the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism." The Moores feel what many Anabaptists have felt: that institutions funded and run by the state will teach values that conflict with Christ's teaching. You will find this site helpful to understand both the motivation for the home schooling movement and ways to make home schooling work.

This site, run by the Public Religion Project in cooperation with prominent Christian historian and writer Martin Marty, examines the role religion plays in American public life. The project sends out short, timely email reports to anyone interested in receiving them. These reports are then filed in the site's archives, where you can find something on almost any news topic. I have subscribed to their email service and find the material timely and interesting.

This group of communal Anabaptists have an extensive network of communities: Catskill, Maple Ridge, New Meadow Run, Woodcrest and Spring Valley in the US, and Darvell and Beech Grove in England. Their website includes photos of their life and an explanation of their motivation and vision: to live as they feel the early church lived. You may be surprised by the activism of this group. They sell publications and community playthings. They have organized their children in marches against the death penalty, have sent representative to Baghdad and have brought tons of medicines to the Iraqi people in defiance of US/UN sanctions. They witness for peace, dialogue with people of other faiths and ideologies, and protest against the death penalty, abortion and war. These people will challenge your view of Christianity.

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