Meet the Moment: Defending Homeschool Freedom with Mike Farris
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Homeschooling is growing fast, but new threats are rising too. In this episode, I sit down with my friend Mike Farris—the national treasure behind HSLDA and longtime defender of parental rights—to talk about where homeschooling stands today, why legislative attacks in states like New Jersey matter to all of us, and how parents can take practical steps right now. From civic engagement to voting turnout, Mike shares why the homeschool movement is at its core a freedom movement—and why it’s time to get off the bench and into the fight.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. This is Heidi St. John. Welcome to the podcast. As you guys can see, yours truly is not in the studio. |
| 0:06.6 | And that's a good thing because today I'm here with my friend, the one and only, the national treasure, Mike Ferris. |
| 0:12.5 | And we're going to be Dishin about the state of homeschooling and where we go from here to meet the moment. |
| 0:17.3 | Thanks for tuning in today. You guys, stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged. |
| 0:20.4 | Thank you. meet the moment. Thanks for tuning in today. You guys, stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged. You know, homeschooling is about a whole lot more than reading, writing, and |
| 0:31.8 | arithmetic. At the heart of homeschooling, homeschooling is discipleship. It's about |
| 0:36.6 | discipling our children and pointing them to Jesus. |
| 0:39.6 | This is why I'm so excited to partner with my friends at the Illuminate Bible series from |
| 0:44.5 | Lifestone Ministries. It's a Bible curriculum that is designed to grow with your kids from first grade |
| 0:50.2 | all the way through high school. So whether your kids are just learning to read or they're |
| 0:54.5 | starting to ask the deeper questions about faith and culture, Illuminate is going to meet them |
| 0:59.3 | right where they are. And this is the best part. Illuminate is literally built for families. |
| 1:05.3 | You don't need a stack of books for each child. You can walk through the curriculum together |
| 1:10.1 | using workbooks that are tailored to each age of your children. So each child, you can walk through the curriculum together using workbooks that are |
| 1:11.8 | tailored to each age of your children. So each week, this is how it works, you're going to follow |
| 1:16.6 | a simple rhythm. You're going to read a Bible story and then you're going to study it in context, |
| 1:21.6 | connect it to the bigger story of scripture, dig into theology, and then apply it to everyday |
| 1:26.8 | life. It's real discipleship that fits right into |
| 1:30.4 | your homeschool day without piling extra stress. In a world where so many kids are walking away |
| 1:36.7 | from their faith, illuminate is a tool that's going to help you, help them anchor their hearts |
| 1:42.2 | in the truth while keeping Christ the center of your homeschool. If you want to learn more, and I hope that you do, visit Lifestone Ministries.com forward slash Heidi. I'm glad you guys are here. Thank you to the sponsor of today's show. We're being sponsored in part by the Functional Medical Institute. You guys can check them out at homeschoolhealth.com. |
| 2:01.0 | All right, you guys, this is a thrill for me. |
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