Because I grew up with pictures of the Dutch royal family on our kitchen calendars, I have always felt a special affinity to dimpled Queen Beatrix and her boys, only slightly younger than me. While proud to be Canadian, my parents did not ignore their Dutch background. No touristy trappings for us, though, but rather […]
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Strengthening the Family, One Free Gift at a Time
Two years ago, a local homeschooling family gave everyone attending our conference a gift of CD’s and DVD’s. This year they did it again. When a family is so convicted about their message that they put together 200 resource packages to hand out for free, no strings attached, at their local homeschooling conference, their message […]
Portraits of Integrity by Marilyn Boyer: Currently Free on Kindle
We try to teach our children character by example, by teaching, and by encouragement. Marilyn Boyer, pioneering homeschool mom of 14, has another very good approach: stories. In Portraits of Integrity (Volume 1) Marilyn tells 17 “stories of real people from history who, in the course of their lives, have been placed in situations where […]
St. Matthew Passion by Bach, Free Online
Easter is approaching, and it is good to focus on our Lord’s death and resurrection. When we lived in the Netherlands, one Easter tradition some of our friends had was attending the St. Matthew Passion. Others sang in it. Now people all around the world can watch it online. Centuries ago, J. S. Bach wrote […]