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🗓️ 10 November 2025
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Today we’re talking about your God-given right to raise, educate, and disciple your children without government interference. New Jersey is pushing two bills—A5825 and A5796—that would tighten control over homeschoolers, while UNESCO and the UN advance “global citizenship” and standardized education worldwide.
My friend Mike Farris—founder of HSLDA and a longtime defender of homeschool freedom—joins me to explain what these proposals actually do, why “curriculum alignment” is so dangerous, how treaties like the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child come into play, and why what happens in New Jersey won’t stay there.
If you homeschool—or just care about parental rights and liberty—this episode is your call to stay informed, stay engaged, and stay off the bench.
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| 0:00.0 | You know what I hear from homeschool moms everywhere? |
| 0:03.0 | They're looking for biblical accuracy in their children's Bible curriculum without the fluff. |
| 0:08.0 | And according to a survey done by my friends at Lifestone Ministries, |
| 0:12.0 | 46% of Christian families say that theological soundness is their biggest concern. |
| 0:17.0 | Unlike workbook-heavy programs that drain the joy from Scripture, the Illuminate Bible |
| 0:22.7 | series from Lifestone Ministries will take your family deep into God's Word in just 15 minutes a day. |
| 0:28.9 | No excessive crafts, no surface level lessons, just pure biblical truth. Each week's simple five-step |
| 0:35.2 | approach explores the story, context, scripture connections, |
| 0:39.0 | and doctrine with real-life application. |
| 0:42.0 | At under a dollar a lesson, one parent guide serves multiple children with age-appropriate |
| 0:47.1 | workbooks, zero stress. |
| 0:49.1 | Most families seek a curriculum based on Bible alignment above everything else, and this is |
| 0:54.0 | where the Illuminate Bible |
| 0:55.4 | series shines. Visit lifestone ministries.org for slash Heidi to anchor your child's learning in the |
| 1:01.8 | Word of God. Hey, you guys, welcome to the Heidi St. John podcast. Today we are going to dive into an |
| 1:09.3 | urgent conversation about freedom. And that's the |
| 1:12.5 | freedom to raise and educate and disciple our own children without government interference. |
| 1:18.8 | Around the world and even right here in the United States, that freedom is under attack. |
| 1:23.2 | In New Jersey, two pieces of proposed legislation, Assembly Bill 5825 and Assembly Bill 5796, |
| 1:30.6 | threatened to erode parental rights and impose state control over homeschool families. |
| 1:34.7 | And on a global scale, agencies like the United Nations and UNESCO are working to standardize |
| 1:40.4 | education worldwide under the banner of global citizenship. To help us unpack all this, |
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