Buried Alive: The Startling Untold Story About Neanderthal Man

This book is recommended by Diana Waring in her Ancient Civilizations and the Bible History Textbook as additional reading.  She said that it reads like a spy thriller and it really does! 

 

An orthodontist goes to France to x-ray neanderthal fossils at a museum where they are stored and found that what he saw for real didn't look like the pictures in his reference books. To what lengths will 

zealous evolutionists go to stop him from letting the cat out of the bag?

Here is a link to the author's webpage.

One Year of Youth Devotions - Wholesome Reading

My student finished this book and I bought the next one at his request.  Actually, he read it at least twice - once all the way through when I gave it to him last January and then almost every night.  There is a one page chapter for each day of the year.  It is interesting for a preteen. However, I would not recommend it as a substitute for daily Bible teaching.   He just picks up the book and reads it alone, without his Bible.

What I am Reading to Be a More Effective Homeschool Teacher

I think I can identify the secularism everywhere, but I hope this book will help me be able to communicate all the problems with it more effectively to my student.

SAVING LEONARDOA Call to Resist the Secular Assault on
Mind, Morals, and Meaning

New book by Nancy Pearcey, best-selling author of Total Truth,
goes on sale Sept. 1, 2010, published by Broadman & Holman

Feb. 11, 2010 -- Is secularism a positive force in the modern world?  Or is it a destructive ideology that must be unmasked and resisted if human beings are to live as whole persons with dignity and freedom? 

In Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning, Dr. Nancy Pearcey offers an unflinching analysis of the profound personal and social devastation wreaked by secular worldviews in every area of life.  The assault is being launched from the classroom to the courtroom, from the talk shows to the television screen, from the pulpit to politics.

In this riveting account, Pearcey, a former agnostic, also exposes the stealth secularism that is transmitted through stories and images, where people are often unaware of its insidious impact on their minds, choices, and behaviors. 

It is a colorful narrative, boldly executed, with more than 100 images from high art to popular culture, from books to films.  What you read may change forever your outlook on the “hot button” political issues that dominate cable TV and talk radio, by offering a fresh and surprising diagnosis of the underlying ideologies that shape those controversies.

Saving Leonardo brings those ideologies to life with rich historical drama, illuminating the rise and fall of hopes and dreams as secular worldviews spin out their dehumanizing impact into our daily lives.  It is a highly readable account that brings into sharp focus the ideas and the people—scientists, philosophers, artists, writers, film directors—who have woven secular themes throughout the entire fabric of modern culture. 

What can be done?  Having once been captured by secular worldviews herself, Pearcey understands them from the inside.  She is an unerring guide to the fatal weak points where they can be exposed and overcome.  She is also a trailblazer, pointing the way forward toward a humane worldview that is rationally defensible, life-affirming, and rooted in creation itself.  As the American Founders themselves affirmed in the Declaration of Independence, human rights are unalienable only when a society respects them as endowments from the Creator. 

In a culture where the center is deconstructed and character is disintegrating, Saving Leonardo offers a practical and inspiring program to resist secularism and recover freedom and dignity—one that no free-thinking person who cares about the future of his family, or his nation, can afford to ignore.

Nancy Pearcey is editor at large of The Pearcey Report and professor of worldview studies at Philadelphia Biblical University.  For additional biographical background on Dr. Pearcey, please seehttp://www.pearceyreport.com/about.php.

For more information, please contact J. Richard Pearcey, editor and publisher of The Pearcey Report (www.pearceyreport.com), atpearcey@thepearceyreport.com.

Rollabind Notebooks are Great for Homeschool Notebooking

Rollabind notebooks take up less space than binders.   Little discs and a unique hole puncher by Rollabind make nice notebooks in our homeschool.  Page can be added and removed anywhere in the notebook.  That comes in quite handy for the student who does not like to write on the back next to the spine.  Take the paper out, do the writing and reinsert.  Clear plastic covers make it easy to customize the front.  We use them for science, writing and history.

I also use these notebooks to organize articles I print out from the Internet or my Logos Bible Software.  I have notebooks for different sections of the Bible -  the Pentateuch, History, Wisdom literature, Gospels, Letters, etc.


My cute little recipe books are put together with Rollabind discs as well.  

You may only care about this if you are as much of an organizing junkie as I am.

Pages can be easily removed and place in other locations in the notebook..

The clear covers customize each notebook for its content.

My New iPad Hard at Work

So here I am sitting at the computer while my husband plays comfortably with my iPad from the La-Z-boy recliner.   Yes, play.  Bookworm.  He has so many points he is ranked as a "glossographer."  Good thing I get up before everyone else does so I can use it, too.  

Seriously, the iPad comes in quite handy for school.  We were reading about the Western Frontier in our All American History textbook.  My student wanted to know more about "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" show and Sitting Bull.  So we "googled" it while sitting on the sofa.  With a large, color screen, two people can view it most comfortably.  This is a great resource for school.