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Thanks for looking at our links page! It is our prayer that these select links will be of help to you as you evaluate what you wish to use as you train and teach your children and as you develop your own worldview and beliefs. This list includes a few of our favorite Christian sites and various well-known publishers, plus sites we think are simply worth linking to. We mean to continue to develop this page, adding good sites as we find them (on that note, we do take suggestions of good sites, but we do not offer link exchanges). Our online catalog offers many more links, allowing you to jump instantly from a description on our site to chapter excerpts, related sites, and samples of products on publisher pages.
If you wish to know more about us, we invite you to visit our personal page as well, where we love to share our latest news and more about who we are.
Enjoy, and may God bless you!
~Eli and Amanda Evans
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Our personal site
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Christian Sites
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| Reformation Covenant Church |
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RCC is our church, also in Oregon City, and is the reason we hope always to stay in this area. RCC has many things in common with other evangelical churches: we believe in justification by faith alone, original sin, the Virgin birth and the substitutionary blood atonement of Jesus Christ. We believe that God's word is infallible and inerrant in its original manuscripts. We strongly abhor sins such as the murder of pre-born infants (abortion) and sodomy (homosexual acts). We believe in the Trinity, and joyfully concur with the orthodox creeds and confessions of the early church. We believe in the importance of evangelism and world missions. But we also believe that to effect a true Biblical reformation in our day, the church in America must reexamine its positions on God's law and eschatology: the standard by which we are to live our lives (law), and our expectations for the future (eschatology). The RCC website will offer you a lot more about our vision!
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RCC's Website
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| Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches |
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RCC is a member of the CREC, which began in 1998. The CREC started with three member churches and has grown steadily since then! Its web site will provide answers to the many commonly asked questions regarding the CREC.
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CREC Website
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| Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics |
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Wonderful Reformed resources, including free catechisms and many helpful essays on a variety of topics.
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CRTA
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| Coram Deo |
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Another links page, connecting to all sorts of useful Christian information for those of a Reformed stripe.
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| Credenda Agenda Magazine |
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One of Eli's favorite magazines. "Although sometimes their humor makes me cringe, they always force me to think." Most back-issues can be found on their site.
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Credenda Agenda
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| Crown and Covenant Publications |
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A company specializing in using the Psalms for worship. They publish a number of books, including the favorite Book of Psalms for Singing. They have also produced a number of related CDs, of which we carry two.
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C&C Publications
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| Cyber Hymnal |
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Over 5,700 Christian hymns and Gospel songs from many denominations—lyrics, MIDI files, scores, pictures, history and more. The site offers a searchable, advanced autoplay feature, and free downloads. It's user friendly, and the biggest site of its kind on the Internet.
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Cyber Hymnal
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| Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings |
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Reformed Christians tend to take pride in their history. But they don't always read what has been said. Here is a good source for historic reformed essays.
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Fire & Ice
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| Highlands Study Center |
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The Highlands Study Center exists to help Christians live more simple, separate, and deliberate lives to the glory of God and for the building of His kingdom. RC Sproul, Jr. and Laurence Windham do a variety of things to work toward this goal, including speaking, publishing their magazine Every Thought Captive and producing their audio series, The Basement Tapes.
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Highlands Study Center
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| Pregnancy Resource Centers of Greater Portland |
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A pro-life Christian organization that offers counseling and support for pregnant women.
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PRC's website
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| Biblical Horizons |
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Biblical Horizons was founded and directed by James B. Jordan, a biblical scholar and author. The site offers lots of material on church, worship, sacraments, history and so much more, including hundreds of newsletters dating back to 1989, and thousands of posts from pastors of many backgrounds.
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| Voice of the Martyrs |
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An agency that monitors worldwide persecution of Christians, is involved in helping Christians in bad situations, and produces a magazine that enables Christians to pray more directly and get involved where possible.
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Voice of the Martyr's Site
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Christian Publishers
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| American Vision |
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Founded in 1978, American Vision, led by Gary DeMar and Ralph Barker, is a full service, nonprofit Christian ministry. They are a think-tank, national training center, book publisher, and speaker's bureau that is taking a vital message and life-changing resources to Christians throughout America and around the world. Their goal is to"Equip and Empower Christians to Restore America's Biblical Foundation."
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| Baker Book House |
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A Christian publisher. They have some great books and many not-as-good books, but they're worth linking to.
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| Canon Press |
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This is, admittedly, our favorite Christian book publisher. They publish many of Doug Wilson's books and also produce his sermons. They offer Latin materials, a logic program, and other great books. We offer about 95% of their materials and most are usually in stock.
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| Covenant Media Foundation |
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The best source for audio materials from master apologist Greg Bahnsen (whom God called home in 1995). The owner, Randy Booth, is a pastor and moderator of the CREC, and an author in his own right. A solid company which we are proud to be associated with.
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| Crux Press |
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Christian books and CDs often imitate the fluff of the world—lots of glitter and glamour with little, if any, real substance. Milk a plenty without a whole lot of meat from God’s Word. Crux Press publishes books and CDs that matter and they currently offer two titles that offer the meat of God’s Word to believers. The first title is Excused Absence: Should Christian Kids Leave Public Schools?, by Doug Wilson. The second is The Genesis Debate: Three Views on the Days of Creation, a critically acclaimed book featuring three teams of well-known Bible scholars engaging in a real debate about whether the days of creation in the book of Genesis are 24-hour days, ages of time, or literary frameworks.
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| Eerdman's Publishing |
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Founded in 1911 and still independently owned, Eerdmans Publishing Company has long been known for publishing a wide range of religious books, from academic works in theology, biblical studies, religious history, and reference to popular titles in spirituality, social and cultural criticism, and literature.
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| Focus Publishing |
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Focus Publishing offers a variety of books, including The Excellent Wife and Exemplary Husband. We carry some of their products and can get anything else.
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| Great Expectations Book Company |
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Great Expectations began in 1992 when two homeschooling families combined their many years of experience in Christian publishing. Their goal has been to bring books and educational materials of lasting value and timeless good sense to Christian and homeschooling families who have great expectations for their families.
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| Mott Media |
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The publisher of the McGuffey readers, the Harvey grammar books, the Ray's Arithmetic series, the Spencerian penmanship, the Sower biographies, and a number of books by Ruth Beechick. We are carrying more of their products than we used to, and can special order anything else.
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| New Leaf Press/Master Books |
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New Leaf Press firmly believes in the power of the printed word to bring people to Christ. They profile authors and topics that give voice to God's miraculous power and presence in our daily lives. Master Books is a division of New Leaf Publishing Group, and for over 30 years, has remained a strong voice of truth in defense of the Holy Scripture from the very first verse. As the world's largest publisher of Creationism books and a publisher for the home school market, Master Books consistently searches for unique authors and book projects that will always point back to the Bible.
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| Oakdown Books |
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This publisher offers only three books thus far, two of them defending the drinking of wine and beer. Oakdown is a subsidiary of Menschworks, an edgy company which also publishes the daily webzine "Razormouth," linked to from their site.
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| Pactum Reformanda |
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Tim Gallant was the first author to write a book-length defense of paedo-communion in over a century (at least that we're aware of). Then, he self-published his book (Feed My Lambs) under the publishing name of Pactum Reformanda (Latin: "covenant or pact," & "reforming.") Tim now hopes to produce a line of works which are both scholarly and accessible to the layman. As the definitions above suggest, he is interested in promoting a rigorously biblical covenant theology.
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| Plymouth Rock Foundation |
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Chartered in 1970, the Plymouth Rock Foundation seeks to preserve and propagate the Christian story of the Pilgrims and its effect on America's Heritage. It does this through a variety of publications, seminar sponsorships, historic tours, chartering local study groups or self-study courses, and other pertinent activities.
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| Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing |
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P&R Publishing is dedicated to publishing books that promote biblical understanding and godly living as summarized in the Westminster Confession and Catechisms. While we have minor disagreements with the confession, it remains one of the best the Church has ever written. As their vision fits with ours, we carry over 130 titles from P&R and can see only offering more.
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| Ross House Books/Chalcedon Foundation |
Chalcedon's goal is to educate people in the Biblical standards for life, both individual and social. They believe there can be no solution to personal or societal problems other than those the Bible offers. To this end, they offer two magazines (The Chalcedon Report and Faith for All of Life; books, journals, and symposia; video and audio cassettes they have produced; and monographs and pamphlets which feature short, hard-hitting essays on a variety of topics.
Ross House Books is the publishing arm of Chalcedon and is the source for most titles by R. J. Rushdoony and others.
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| Vision Forum |
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Vision Forum offers a Christ-centered vision for family and culture. Led by Doug Phillips, this non-profit organization produces a number of books, CDs and even DVDs promoting their vision. We share many ideals in common with Vision Forum, and offer most of their materials.
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| Wipf & Stock |
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Wipf and Stock publishes new works in theology, biblical studies, church history, philosophy and related disciplines. Their vision is to publish according to the merits of content rather than exclusively to the demands of the marketplace. Since 1995, Wipf and Stock Publishers has been widely recognized for reintroducing classic academic works and for textbook reprinting, serving hundreds of authors, professors, bookstores, and institutions every year.
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| World Magazine |
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World Magazine is much like Newsweek or Time Magazine, in that it publishes a weekly news magazine covering world events. It is different in that it is written from an informed Christian perspective. They believe in a God who tells the truth and wants them to do the same. World also publishes four mini-magazines for ages preschool-9th grade.
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| YWAM Publishing |
YWAM Publishing is committed to the production and distribution of books that encourage Christians to make a difference in a needy world. They specialize in books that focus on evangelism, educational training, and mercy ministries. YWAM Publishing works in conjunction with Emerald Books, a publisher of Christian classics, devotionals, fiction, and resources for home schooling families.
A ministry of Youth With A Mission, YWAM Publishing is a nonprofit organization, committing their proceeds toward helping kids and adults in China, India, Brazil, Columbia, Egypt, Uganda, the Philippines, and other countries in need.
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Home Schooling - General Information
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| Basic Skills Assessment |
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Our next door neighbors! They offer a variety of services including testing, tutoring, and supplementary classes for home schooled students. They publish a very helpful list of essential learning objectives (ELO) for grades K-8 and a series of assessment tests based on those standards. Additionally, they help families prepare for a variety of standardized achievement tests by offering practice tests (called Achieving Peak Performance) that you can administer from home.
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| Cathy Duffy Reviews |
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When evaluating curriculum, we use three main sources to learn about the materials: we gain personal experience by interacting with the curriculum itself; we ask questions of customers who have used or are using the curriculum; and we look for a review by Cathy Duffy. We have been reading her reviews for years, and consider them usually right on the mark.
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| CHOC Board |
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Put together by long-time friends, the CHOC Board is a wonderful new site designed to help Christian homeshool parents find out about events, resources, great deals, and more. It's an Online Community board for the westside (and now more general) Portland, Oregon area.
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CHOC Board Site
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| Home School Legal Defense Association |
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For those concerned with the lagality of home schooling, HSLDA actively works for expansion of homeschooling rights, watches the state laws for changes, and can help home schoolers who find themselves in legal difficulty. Worth paying to join. Another informative site.
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| Home Schooling Abroad |
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A website designed to be especially helpful for missionaries home schooling overseas.
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Homeschooling Abroad
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| National Home Education Research Institute |
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These are the folks that do the research on how home schoolers are doing and then spread the word. If you are a skeptic about home schooling, or if you are dealing with someone who is, this is a site to visit.
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NHERI
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| OCEANetwork |
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This site is designed to be an information resource for your homeschool. Find information on beginning homeschooling and the Oregon homeschool law. Keep up to date on legislation impacting home education freedoms in Oregon and Congress. Read articles of encouragement. Learn about upcoming conferences and events for home educators. Find a support group in your area.
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OCEANetwork
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| Reference - Wikipedia |
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An online encyclopedia that allows the reader to edit! As a result, this is a fascinating and often changing encyclopedia, self-policing as other users can correct the information if it is inaccurate. We have been using Wikipedia quite a bit as we research for our author biographies.
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Wikipedia
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| Teaching Home Magazine |
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A Christian homeschool magazine, written for home schoolers
by home schoolers. For over 24 years, The Teaching Home has provided support to home educators from a distinctly Christian perspective.
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| The Old Schoolhouse Magazine |
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The Old Schoolhouse Magazine is a Christian homeschool publication that is produced quarterly and mailed out to homeschooling families all over the world. Each 200-page issue is packed with articles and editorial columns covering different teaching styles, areas of study, current homeschooling issues and events, and encouraging articles from homeschool families. Noted authors are often featured in the magazine and on their website.
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| Titus2.com |
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The Steve and Teri Maxwell family website. They offer resources for Christian home school families, including a practical guide for daily scheduling, called Managers of Their Homes; a book called Preparing Sons to Provide for a Single-Income Family; and others. So far, we don't carry any of these, but hear they are good. They also have a number of encouraging articles on their site.
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Teaching Approaches
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| Classical Education - Bright Rock Press |
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Brightrock Press is currently a "mom and pop" publishing company. Claire and Peter Roise are mom and pop, authors, and draft editor and webmaster, respectively. Both are old friends who are putting together some solid materials for classical Christian education: texts on latin, logic, rhetoric, and more, as well as a planned series of children's story books about Church history.
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| Classical Education - Classical Academic Press |
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We discovered Classical Academic Press early in 2006, when we found their Latin program recommended in the Veritas catalog. It's a neat curriculum, offering a fun approach to Latin for kids 3rd grade and up. They are also developing programs for Greek, logic and Bible study. Their website is highly informative, and we are pleased to carry most of their products.
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| Classical Education - King's Way Classical Academy |
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King's Way is the world's only 100% web-based classical Christian academy for grades 7-12. They offer over 60 courses specially created to help you master the skills of critical thinking and effective communication, including great books studies, grammar, logic and rhetoric, math and sciences, and fine arts.
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| Classical Education - Logos School |
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Logos School, began by Doug Wilson, Shirley Quist, and Larry Lucas, opened in 1981 with the goal to provide high-quality Christian education for children. Ten years later, Doug Wilson wrote a book entitled Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning, which described the classical, Trivium model, as described by Dorothy Sayers in her 1940's article, The Lost Tools of Learning. Doug’s book produced so much interest in the classical approach that Logos helped form the Association of Classical, Christian Schools (ACCS), which offers conferences and practical assistance to help others form classical schools. Logos School sells many of its administrative and curriculum materials to sister schools, bookstores and other people around the United States, as well as having its staff train other teachers and administrators in summer training and other conferences.
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| Classical Education - Open Texture |
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Open Texture offers audio versions of the first three Story of the World books from Peace Hill Press. They also produce a Greek curriculum that can be used by students and adults.
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| Classical Education - Peace Hill Press |
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The publisher of the Story of the World books by Susan Wise Bauer, Peace Hill Press also offers a phonics program and an early english program—and they have more in the works! Their focus is on providing products for classical education and they are the home of the Well-Trained Mind.
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| Classical Education - Trivium Pursuit |
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Trivium Pursuit is the Bluedorn family business. Commited to home schooling since the early '70s, Harvie and Laurie Bluedorn began in 1989 to give seminars on teaching Latin, Greek, and Logic. In 2001 they arranged much of what they know and believe into a book called Teaching the Trivium. This book and their other materials help to describe and do a classical, very specifically Christian, method of education. Their entire family contributes to the business in various ways, and their sons have their own company called Christian Logic.
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| Classical Education - Veritas Press |
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These folks come from the "Classical" perspective, and have been producing a history program for a number of years They also offer a Bible program, a phonics program and a growing number of literature guides for titles that are generally not as well known. They also produce a fantastic printed catalog. Their recommended grade levels are quite advanced, so while you should feel free to strive for them, don't feel disheartened if you are not quite up to their standards!
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| Literature Approach - Robinson Curriculum |
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Art Robinson is a brilliant scientist, whose wife died shortly after they had several kids. Out of necessity, he designed a curriculum for them that could/would be pretty much self-taught, and it has proved successful for him and many other families. We think the format of this program is rather clunky, but it offers plenty of hard-to-find books. Be prepared to read everything on a computer screen or wear out at least one printer.
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| Literature Approach - Sonlight Curriculum |
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Sonlight's tagline is "Literature-Rich Homeschooling." They produce curriculum guides that help you use literature to educate all grade levels. While their pace is too demanding and their schedule is too structured for some, it works quite well for many families. They don't sell their products to bookstores, but they offer many items from other publishers, and we have many of the same.
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| Principle Approach - FACE |
The mission of the Foundation for American Christian Education is "to publish and teach America's Christian history and method of education by Biblical principles to restore Christian self-government and character to the individual, to families, to churches, and to the nations." They publish Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary, books by Verna Hall and Rosalie Slater, and the Noah Plan curriculum.
FACE serves individuals and organizations with resources and education, offering regional seminars in various locations, the Slater Institute to train teachers, consulting to schools and home educators, school-planting support, an educational Journal, study-group guides, Teacher Certification Program, and a catalog of various materials, books, tapes, and posters.
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| Traditional Textbooks - A Beka Books |
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Probably the largest homeschool/Christian school publisher. They don't sell their materials to bookstores, so we can only offer their materials used. If you need workbooks, you'll generally need to order directly from them.
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| Traditional Textbooks - ACSI |
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Association of Christian Schools International strives to enable and equip Christian educators and schools worldwide to effectively educate children and young people with the mind of Christ. To this end ACSI seeks to equip schools for greater effectiveness, year after year. The many programs and services they offer are intended to enrich the teaching of Truth—God’s Word revealed through Scripture as well as through creation.
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| Traditional Textbooks - Alpha Omega Publishing |
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The publisher of Horizon Math, Lifepac Gold, and Switched on Schoolhouse. They also distribute Weaver and Power Glide Foreign Language. We don't carry most of those materials in stock, but we can easily get them, and can generally offer a small discount on special orders.
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| Traditional Textbooks - Bob Jones University Press |
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BJU is another huge publisher of Christian school and home school materials. They do sell to bookstores, and we have most of their materials, either new or used.
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| Traditional Textbooks - Calvert School |
Calvert School integrates material from subject to subject to reinforce your instruction and make for an engaging educational experience. It is secular in worldview.
Calvert has been around since 1897, and offers an academically stimulating and accredited program that includes online activities. It also offers virtual classes and correspondence testing services for additional support.
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| Traditional Textbooks - Christian Liberty Academy |
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Christian Liberty offers a home school correspondence program and publishes good quality (yet fairly inexpensive) home school materials. As a school, they offer a full curriculum, but they don't produce everything they recommend. We carry in stock pretty much everything they publish.
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| Traditional Textbooks - Pearson Education |
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Pearson Education is a company that distributes a number of publishers, including Addison Wesley; Scott Foresman; Prentice Hall; Dale Seymour; Sing, Spell, Read & Write; Modern Curriculum Press; and others. We carry the MCP Mathematics; Plaid Phonics; Spelling Workout; and Maps/Charts/Graphs series.
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| Traditional Textbooks - Rod & Staff |
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A full curriculum company for those coming from an Amish or Mennonite background. They don't actually have a website, but there are local companies that offer their materials. Our favorite is Milestone Ministries.
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Milestone Ministries
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| Unit Studies - Cadron Creek Christian Curriculum |
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Cadron Creek Christian Curriculum offers home school programs for each major age group—elementary, middle and high school —centered around proven literature-based unit studies (currently one on the Little House books, Narnia series and Anne of Green Gables titles). They complement their literature-based units with well-selected companion and auxiliary resources.
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| Unit Studies - Five in a Row |
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A literature unit study program for preschoolers to high school. Five-in-a-Row provides step-by-step instructional guides for teachign social studies, language, art, applied math & science using outstanding children's literature as a basis for each weekly unit study. Currently, we only carry five of the twelve levels, but we offer a number of them used and can special-order other levels.
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| Unit Studies - Steward Ship |
Learning how to simplify teaching by using the unit study method can help you keep going. Remembering to focus on the bigger picture of God's ultimate purpose for each child will help you keep your academic endeavors in perspective, and help you to NOT GIVE UP!
Jennifer Steward and Steward Ship offers support, teaching, workshops, books, unit study guides and other resources on their website.
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High School & Preparing for College
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| Global Learning Strategies |
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Recognizing the increasing expense and lack of efficiency in the traditional model of higher education, the mission of Global Learning Strategies is to serve the international student community with alternatives that are creative, cost effective, and marked by excellence. Their goal is to become the primary resource for students who desire to explore accelerated distance learning.
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| Home School Sampler |
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The Homeschool Sampler is a bookstore very much like Exodus but located in the St. Louis area. They offer a full selection (over 7,000 titles) of curriculum, educational helps, books on the family, supplies, and even consignment. But what makes them especially interesting to us is that they have published a book called College Without Compromise, which we carry.
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| Senior Portraits - Jal Duncan, photographer |
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For those of you in the Portland area, Jal Duncan offers quality photography. He and his wife Bonnie do excellent work and take family and professional portraits, senior pictures and weddings. Although he is a little pricy, we can highly recommend him, as he has done the Evans family photography for years and he did a wonderful job with our wedding! For samples of his work, check his website, or visit our personal site's wedding album.
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Jal Duncan Photography
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Good Colleges
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| Gutenberg College |
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At Gutenberg College, "education" hearkens back to an earlier and more universal definition—namely, the pursuit of wisdom and truth. Their goal is to challenge students to examine their beliefs, ask difficult questions, wrestle with their faith, and make it their own. Located in Eugene, Oregon.
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| Hillsdale College |
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Founded in 1844, Hillsdale College is an independent, liberal arts college with a student body of about 1,300 with a student-to-faculty ratio of 10-to-1. Hillsdale’s goal is comprised of two ideas: academic excellence and institutional independence. The College does not accept federal taxpayer subsidies for any of its operations. This fosters rigorous academics, intramural sports, and widespread community volunteerism which nurture intellectual, physical, social and personal growth. Located in rural southern Michigan, the nearly 200-acre Hillsdale campus includes both modern and historic buildings. While not publicly a Christian college, it is not antagonistic to Christianity. Many members of its faculty and a good number of the students are Christians. Hillsdale is perennially rated among the top 100 colleges by US News and World Report.
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| New St. Andrews College |
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New Saint Andrews is a Christian college in Moscow, Idaho. NSA is committed to the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom in the light of the Holy Scriptures and under the sovereign authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. Its mission is to provide the highest quality undergraduate education in liberal arts and culture from a biblical worldview.
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| Whitefield College |
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A home school correspondence college that makes use of tapes and books and is offering a pretty decent education. Comes from a Presbyterian/Reformed pepective.
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Bible & Worldview
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| Character Training - Doorposts Publishing |
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John and Pam Forster began Doorposts Publishing with the mission to supply parents with Bible-based, parent-designed, family-tested products to help you apply Scripture in your home. Their material is not flashy, but it is solid, with careful Biblical study going into each product they create. The Forster family is a remarkable one, and we have greatly enjoyed getting to know them better over the years.
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| Character Training - No Greater Joy |
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Michael & Debi Pearl's site. Their book To Train Up a Child garners plenty of criticism from those who disagree with spanking (they say it advocates "child abuse"). While we can agree that the book is not perfect, it does describe methods to train (not abuse) children, and it has plenty practical advice to offer (which does include spanking). Debi's book for wives doesn't attract as much negativity, although she, too, sometimes offers "extreme" examples. But for the most part her book is right on and a delight to read.
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| Cornerstone Curriculum |
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David Quine and family. Their books include worldview materials and the Making Math Meaningful series. We don't currently offer their materials, but we have heard good things about them, and have been impressed with what we've looked at.
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| Line of Promise Press |
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Line of Promise publishes the Covenental Catechism series, a progressive course of study of God’s covenantal redemptive revelation to His people. It covers from Genesis to Revelation in six books. The series is primarily designed fo ra church education or Sunday School program, but it is suitable for and used by homeschoolers.
Harry Van Dyken wrote the series, and Donald, his son (an OPC pastor and author of Rediscovering Catechism), edited and publishes it.
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| Nehemiah Institute |
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The Nehemiah Institute is dedicated to restoring our nation to a biblically-based society as it once was. It works towards this goal using a variety of methods, but its primary work is in providing a unique worldview testing and training service (PEERS) to private schools, churches, homeschoolers, and other Christian ministries. For a free miniature version of the PEERS test, click here. Please contact them for the full version, or if you wish to use it for your church or school.
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| Providence Foundation |
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The Providence Foundation is a nonprofit Christian educational organization whose mission is to spread liberty, justice, and prosperity among the nations by instructing individuals in a Biblical worldview. Their emphasis is to educate using principles, rather than issues, drawing upon examples in history for illustration.
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| The Great Books |
TheGreatBooks.com is designed to help Christian educators use the classical model to help each high school student own his or her faith as a total worldview.
If educators equip students in the grammar and logic stages, in high school these students will be ready to dive in to the great conversation. But where to begin? Most recommended reading lists say that your student should read Aristotle—but when? And what part of Aristotle’s massive body of work? Are certain translations preferable?
These questions led Worldview Academy to create TheGreatBooks.com. The core of this website is our four-year recommended reading list, beginning with ancient civilization in 9th grade and culminating with modern civilization in 12th grade. Each epoch’s list is designed for a good reader to complete the work in 36 weeks.
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| Worldview - Myers Institute |
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The Myers Institute's mission is to help inspire, train, equip, develop and coach everyday leaders for service of eternal value. Led by Dr. Jeff Myers, they offer resources for worldview, communication and leadership training to parents, students, and teachers.
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| Worldview - Summit Ministries |
Summit is an educational Christian ministry whose very existence is a response to our current post-Christian culture. Today, countless Christian youth have fallen victim to the popular ideas of our modern world. Most have adopted these ideas into their own worldview, while still others go on to renounce their Christian faith altogether.
Summit views its role in God’s kingdom as a catalyst to counteract this alarming trend. However, their ultimate goal supercedes simply training. As Christians are challenged to stand strong in their faith and defend truth, they will also be equipped to have a positive influence on the society in which they live.
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| Worldview - Worldview Academy |
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Worldview Academy is a non-denominational organization dedicated to helping Christians to think and live in accord with a biblical worldview so that they will serve Christ and lead the culture. Since 1996 they have been fulfilling this mission through their nation-wide Leadership Camps, their Christianity & Culture Conferences, and through the creation of many books and resources.
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Their Site
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Arithmetic & Mathematics
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| Barnum Software |
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Barnum Software is the home of Quarter Mile Math, a "math drill" game for grades K-9. From basic keyboarding to pre-algebra, Quarter-Mile Math allows children to drill by racing (either cars or horses), first without a time limit, and then against their own times, as they improve their skills.
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