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Charlotte Mason, the Person Charlotte Mason was the only child born to parents who loved her, but whom she lost at an early age. She was inspired as a young girl by a teacher and teaching became a lifelong calling for her, a light that guided her through the early days of grief. She was trained in the 1860’s, in a day when this professional opportunity was just beginning to open itself up to women. Through her training, seeds of ideas began to grow that would later bear fruit in the form of...

A Charlotte Mason Framework for Bible Lessons If you have been following my work, you know that I am a big fan of “Trial and Triumph” by Richard Hannula . It is a part of our homeschool curriculum, so I have had the delight of reading the stories aloud to my firstborn and and now to my second. In our home, we read the assigned readings over a weekend breakfast, as we all benefit from hearing about the great cloud of witnesses, who have run before us. Imagine my delight in a recent reading to...

Francis Schaeffer was a well known 20th century evangelical, theologian, philosopher, and pastor. He and his wife, Edith, founded the...