Trivium Pursuit Blog
Climbing Devils Tower
Devils Tower is an ancient volcano in Wyoming. On November 1st, four adventurers pile on climbing gear and set out for the summit – 400 feet straight up. Bruno: Ahhhh! We’re climbing that Beast? That’s so cool, man. Nathaniel: I feel like I’m going to fall off this...
Contest Winner
Sorry for the delay in picking a winner for the New Year's Contest — our internet connection has been irregular. So, playing the role of “gift god” as Harvey puts it, I’m picking Meg Volmer to win the set of books. Meg, can you send me your address?
Three Contests
Monday we'll pick a winner of the New Year's contest -- you have a few more days to enter. Also, tomorrow we'll be picking the winners of the "Transfer is a Propaganda Technique" contests on Facebook and Fallacy Detective News.
Peter Schiff Analogies on the Economy
Ron Paul economic advisor Peter Schiff uses analogies to describe our current economic crisis. Topics include debt-financed consumption, business cycles, the Federal Reserve, the cronies in Washington, and the modern American service economy.
Soul Care
What do you think of when you hear the word “Puritan”? Straight-laced, stern, legalistic, harsh. But did you know that the Puritans were the first, and some of the best biblical counselors? They wrote lots of practical books designed to bring comfort, hope, and help...
New Year’s Contest
Painting by Johannah (Bluedorn) Stanford Quilling project by Johannah (Bluedorn) Stanford What art or craft project are you and your kids working on this winter? Tell us about it in the comments here, and we'll pick a winner next week. The winner will receive...
Transfer as a propoganda technique
Transfer is a propaganda technique. An advertiser uses this technique when he tries to transfer our good feelings about one thing, to his product. There is no real connection between smoking cigarettes and a cowboy, but Marlboro wants you to associate the two....
Toodles at the North Pole
Toodles and Stephen Nasby at the North Pole.
Encoder Decoder in Arabia
Todd Adams and Handy English Encoder Decoder in Saudi Arabia.
Our friends the Nunes family: Brazilian Court Convicts Homeschooling Family Despite Evidence of Success
MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL, December 23, 2008 (Life Site News) - Cleber and Bernadeth Nunes have been convicted by a second civil court in Brazil for homeschooling their children, despite passing government-imposed tests that teachers admitted they could not pass...
Lives in Print by Ava Bluedorn
Lives in Print by Ava Bluedorn Men who courageously stood for what is right, women who passionately cared for those in need, Christians who sacrificed everything for what they believed, scientists who changed the world with their innovations, everyday mothers who...
What may seem defeat to us may be victory to him.
Taken from Morning and Evening by C.H. Spurgeon The night also is thine. Psalms 74:16 Yes, Lord, thou dost not abdicate thy throne when the sun goeth down, nor dost thou leave the world all through these long wintry nights to be the prey of evil; thine eyes watch us...
Horse and Snow Photo
Korean Edition of Teaching the Trivium Now Available
Dear Harvey and Laurie, Greetings from Seoul! We successfully published the Korean version of Teaching the Trivium: Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style last month. I am going to send you some finished copies. Thank you and best wishes, Judy JANG Foreign...
Toodles at Silver Dollar City in Branson Missouri….
... with Katie West.
New Edition of Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Shortest and Coldest Day of the Year
It's 5 below zero with 25 mph winds here in New Boston, Illinois. What's it like today where you live?
Two important events happened on Sunday….
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Storm coming tonight…..
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Ron Paul Auto Bailout Speech December 10
Dr. Paul starts to make his point at the one minute mark -- you might begin there.
2009 Christian Worldview Essay Contest
The Trinity Foundation announces the 2009 Christian Worldview Essay Contest. The topic is the book God's Hammer: The Bible and Its Critics. The contest is open to those between the ages of 17-23. For a list of the rules or an entry form, visit the website or click on...
A Fallacy Detective in Washington
Pepsi has a billboard up in my state reading, "Hey Washington, more people prefer the taste of Pepsi!" Clearly, the fallacy here is "ad POPulum." Did you catch the other 'fallacy'? The sentence... isn't. It does not express a complete thought. "More people"? More...
Where is Toodles today?
Toodles with Octavio in Bangkok sitting in a tuk-tuk.
My Favorite Movie
BTW, I live in Illinois.
Paul Washer Message
This is a long message but worth listening to.
Message from The Classical Mommy
I am happy to announce that on December 10th, the “Contest Season” in The Classical Mommy Blog will start again! There will be 20 questions, which means 20 prizes! The theme of the contest will be The Bible. Each day from December 10th to December 24th I will post a...
Family Picture 2008
Happy Birthday #1 Son
Photo of the Day
Please Pray for Mike Evans
Mike Evans, pastor of Crossroad Evangelical Free Church in Earlham, Iowa and homeschooling father, was just diagnosed as having a large Arteriovenous Malformation in the front left temporal lobe of his brain. Mike writes for the Iowa homeschool newsletter, and we have...