I didn’t sign up with Facebook willingly. I’m a private person and would never dream of displaying to the world what some people seem comfortable with, but marketing and a far-flung collection of friends and colleagues pressed me onto the platform. For the most part, I’m happy connecting with other science buffs and publishing
We just graduated our second child from our homeschool. The first question everyone asks upon discovering this is—you guessed it—“Where is he going to college?” The question is uncomfortable, and I wish people would broaden their view of post-high school life. When I say that he isn’t going to college, the barely-concealed disappointment says
While her poem, “Slavery,” would serve as an alarm clock to the national conscience of a people who felt that slavery had been justified in the name of commerce, stability and even necessity, it would only prove to be one of many. Like most of the abolitionists in 1792, Hannah was naively giddy about
By the end of the 18th century, hundreds of thousands of Africans had been forcibly sold into slavery to North America and European nations. During this same period, God was raising up a remnant in England that would be mightily used to liberate their fellowmen. Of this band, several fought the battle with their
