A homeschooling movement is sweeping the nation – with 1.5 million children now learning at home, an increase of 75 percent since 1999. 74 % increasse in the number of familes teaching their own children. A 2007 survey asked parents why they choose to homeschool and allowed them to provide several reasons. The following are the most popular responses: ....

The United States was the first country to be created, from its inception, as a democracy. And the Bible played a major role in the process... The creation of the United States of America represented a unique event in world history. Unlike other countries where democracy evolved over a period of hundreds of years, the United States was the first country to be created, from its inception, as a democracy. And the Bible -- and Jewish values -- played a major role in this process.

The Jewish identity of Jerusalem in Greek and Roman sources: The references to Jerusalem in these classical texts demonstrate the historical attachment of the Jewish people to Jerusalem.

Sometimes it's the small gestures that penetrate most deeply. Standing there on the sidewalk, waiting to perform my routine send off, I suddenly heard an urgent knocking on the glass. I looked up to see the boy in the window -- yes it was him! -- waving vigorously at me, an intense look of recognition upon his face.....

The Gospel we listen to is far different than the Gospel our grandfathers believed in. We decry the old brush arbor revivalists as hard, judgmental men who did not understand the love of God, and we have traded their message of repentance and holiness for one that is a kinder, gentler approach which promises love and peace and prosperity.

Can a man of God operate in the flesh and yet have the blessing and anointing of God in their life? The premise is this, can the true anointing be in play while a heart full of wickedness is still maintained?

Here I was, a total stranger, and not only did she notice that I must be freezing, but she actually did something about it

What was the underlying conflict between Jewish and Greek philosophy? In a similar vein, what bothered the Greeks? They had political control and what appeared to be clear military superiority. Their culture dominated the world. What was it about the stubborn band of Jews in Judea that so irked them? What pushed them to go so far as banning another people's religion?

Can any woman measure up to the models in Vogue? Out of Vogue It would be helpful for girls to grow up with the refrain, "God created your beautiful face." Unfortunately, most of us haven't been exposed to such notions. Instead we are given images of air-brushed models and are appalled when natural faces do not measure up. Most of us deduce that we are deformed if we don't look like we waltzed off the glossy pages of Vogue.