homeschooling : Helen Lee: Author, Speaker, Missional Mom

Homeschooling and Missional? Absolutely!

Friday, September 21, 2012

Do I think homeschooling and the missional life are incompatible? Absolutely not. This is the beginning of a post I wrote for the Jesus Creed blog in response to Tony Jones’s recent posts on homeschooling. ****** I recently read the posts by Tony Jones about homeschooling (“Death to Homeschooling” and “Why Homeschoolers Do Not Understand Missional”), in which he argues that homeschooling by its very nature runs counter to missional living. Jones states that “missional means showing Christlike compassion to other human beings and to all of creation,” and that choosing to homeschool ones’ children results in an abdication of our “God-given role as a missional member of society.” Let me just highlight two fallacies in Jones’s arguments, and offer my…

Saturday, August 11, 2012

(This article originally appeared on Christianity Today‘s This is Our City website.) When I was 6 and my dad had been hired by the U.S. government to work as an economist, one of the first things he and my mom did after we moved was to call the few fellow Korean immigrants they knew in the D.C. area. “Where are the good schools?” they interrogated. When they ran out of people to call, they called their friends’ friends and asked the same question. It took no time to build a list of acceptable school districts, a list that concurrently created the boundaries for where we would consider living. If a city was not on that list, it did not matter how affordable…