Now We Are All Homeschoolers

My wife and I home educated our children for 23 years. For the first ten years at least, we endured the typical questions: “Is that legal?” (America educated its children through home education for hundreds of years before public school districts were...

Xu Xiaodong and China’s Social Credit Control

Xu Xiaodong is a mixed martial artist in communist occupied China (the People’s Republic of China). He practices a combination of striking and grappling arts in full contact competition, and for the past several years has challenged traditional Chinese martial...

Look at the Triumphs

It is easy to forget victories and lose hope in a better tomorrow when all you see and hear is doom and gloom. In my last blog I talked about people of faith who only grew stronger and more hopeful even in such a terrible place as a concentration camp. I think from...

Faith in the Concentration Camps

I recently finished reading Elie Wiesel’s book “Night.” It is his first hand account of being sent to Auschwitz and later, other Nazi concentration camps. One reads with horror and compassion for Elie and for all the prisoners as they are subjected...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: “Bless You Prison”

For those of you raised in the 1970s (like me) the name of Alexander Solzhenitsyn is probably a familiar name. He was the famous Soviet dissident who was exiled from the USSR and made quite a splash over here in the United States and Western Europe. His books “A...