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Schwartz, Changed … cont. from page 14
Foundation, and read his books. They
agree with me that he has served as a
prophet and mentor in the arena of
homeschooling. Often, when our family
meets another that has had the benefit
of Rush’s teachings, there is an instant
camaraderie and depth of understanding
that is not always present with those
who don’t have the same grounding.
R. J. Rushdoony, the Christian, the
man, the theologian, the advocate, has
had an impact that grows yearly. God
has been gracious to us by giving us one
who could help us understand our times
and be prepared to apply His law-word
to every area of life and thought. This
good and faithful servant, we believe,
will be remembered alongside other
greats of our Faith such as Augustine,
Calvin, and Knox. How blessed we were
to be given a chance to walk alongside
him as he did the work God called him
to do!
Andrea Schwartz is co-director of Friends
of Chalcedon. She has been homeschooling
her own children since 1983 and has had
a number of articles on homeschooling
published in various magazines. She
continues to advise other homeschooling
families in areas of philosophy and
curriculum.
Duigon, Prophet … cont. from page 16
Today, while the U.N. enthrones
genocidal powers like Sudan, Zimbabwe,
and China on its Human Rights
Commission, it also stands exposed as
the perpetrator of the most expansive financial
scandal in human history — the
Oil for Food program, in which U.N.
operatives stole tens of billions of dollars
that were intended to provide food and
medical supplies for the suffering people
of Iraq.
5. “We are in the midst of a homosexual
revolution aimed against Biblical
faith and morality,” Rushdoony wrote,
32 Faith for All of Life September/October 2005
Faith for All of Life
32 years ago, in The Institutes of Biblical
Law, Vol. I (pg. 420).
As incredible as this statement must
have seemed in 1973, in 2005 it seems
an understatement. Has the Western
world capitulated to the assault by organized
sodomy? Certainly much of it has,
including portions of the church itself.
Today we have a constitutional right to
sodomy, as laid down by the Supreme
Court in Lawrence v. Texas; homosexual
“marriage” imposed by the state court
in Massachusetts; a homosexual bishop;
and public schools teaching sexual
technique to children as young as six
years old (see the “David Parker” article
at www.article8.org).
Homeschooling’s
Debt to Rushdoony
Two leaders of today’s homeschooling
movement have acknowledged their debt
to Chalcedon’s founder, R.J. Rushdoony.
“Today there are over 1.8 million
homeschooled children in the U.S.A.,” said
E. Ray Moore Jr., founder and director
of Exodus Mandate, an organization
that promotes homeschooling through
networking and the dissemination of
information and resources. “While the
nation’s culture seems to spin wildly out of
control, homeschooling shines as one of
the bright spots to give credible hope for
revival in the future.
“I counted it a privilege to know
R. J. and listen to his lectures and study
his books,” said Christopher Klicka,
senior counsel and director of the legal
department at the Home School Legal
Defense Association (HSLDA). “Originally
he was a voice crying in the wilderness
— but gradually his works helped shape
the evangelical movement in America,
helping it become an effective force in our
culture. Homeschooling is indebted for his
contribution.”
“When the modern Christian
homeschool movement was born in the
1970s,” Moore said, “Rushdoony was among
the first theologians and Biblical scholars to
understand its potential impact for renewal
of the family.
This issue defines the front lines of
the Culture War today. While writing
the three volumes of his Institutes, Rushdoony
clearly saw it coming.
Perhaps nothing else testifies so
tellingly to Rushdoony’s stature as a
prophet as the numbers of his critics
and the vitriol with which they attack
him. As a Bible scholar, he would have
expected this, too.
“And he said, Verily I say unto you,
No prophet is accepted in his own country”
(Luke 4:24).
Lee Duigon is a Christian free-lance writer
and contributing editor for the Chalcedon
Report. He has been a newspaper editor and
reporter and a published novelist.
“When there was so much litigation
against homeschool families, Dr.
Rushdoony testified at numerous trials
as an expert witness. While many other
evangelical Christian leaders and pastors
ignored — and some even hindered
— this small, new homeschool movement
among Christians, Dr. Rushdoony invested
his time, counsel, and intellectual acuity [in
support of it].
“Rushdoony understood that most
homeschool families taught their children
a solid Biblical worldview.… He knew
they were training their children to be
leaders of tomorrow, who would apply
God’s principles to every area of life. In
many ways, the homeschoolers have
implemented what Rushdoony so tirelessly
taught — reclaiming our culture and
society under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.”
Moore cited Rushdoony’s books on
education as the intellectual foundation
of homeschooling and a legacy to the
present day: Intellectual Schizophrenia
(1961), The Messianic Character of American
Education (1963), and The Philosophy of the
Christian Curriculum (1981). “These helped
give theological form and substance to
the Christian homeschool movement,” he
said, “just as they had done earlier for the
private Christian day school movement.”