403 years ago today, America was founded by a band of immigrants who landed at Jamestown. 3 years ago, hundreds of American of families gathered to remember and give thanks. Several, including the Botkin family, prepared a gift to their descendants 100 years later.

Only one group of families may be able to claim an unbroken Christian legacy which stretches back to the apostles. April 2010 marks the 355th anniversary of one of their cruelest moments of suffering. The Waldensians' early militancy, fruitfulness, perseverance, and compromise hold critical lessons for Christian families today.

When I set out to watch Homeschool Dropouts: Why the Second Generation is Now Headed for a Spiritual Wasteland, I was very excited, to say the least. I'd been anxiously anticipating the documentary's release, as I thought I knew a lot of people that I considered potential homeschool dropouts, and homeschoolers who had already dropped out, from people who were violently opposed to the choices their parents had made for their upbringing to people who were simply apathetic to their rearing in general. I was anxious to pass it along to others, people I thought needed to see it.

Anyone who was raised in the prison-like system of government schooling knows that history is a boring mass of confused, causeless, and meaningless names and dates. History has been made practically irrelevant. That generations of American minds have been laid waste by this idea is not accidental. At the end of the 19th century, a group of committed men determined that history must go. Here is why.