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The Heidi St. John Podcast

Should Christian Parents Send Their Kids to Public School?

The Heidi St. John Podcast

Heidi St. John

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.93.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Recently, the Gospel Coalition featured a "good faith debate" between popular Bible teacher, Jen Wilkin and Pastor Jonathan Pennington to discuss this question. As you can imagine—this subject sparks controversy, but it's an important one. Should we risk sending our kids to the public schools? Today, I'll discuss it. SHOW NOTES

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0:00.0

By now you guys know about my grave concern regarding our public education system here in the United States.

0:07.0

Our children today are being taught a revisionist history, and they're made to believe that America is systemically racist.

0:14.0

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0:22.0

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0:32.0

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0:38.0

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0:47.0

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0:58.0

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1:12.0

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1:21.0

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1:25.0

Well, many of you have messaged me, by the way, happy Friday.

1:29.0

Many of you guys have messaged me recently about a video, a debate series that is airing on the gospel coalition.

1:38.0

And this was a discussion between Jen Wilkin and Jonathan Pennington talking about the logic and the question should Christian parents send their children to public schools.

1:52.0

I'm going to weigh in on this stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

2:04.0

Before I jump into the topic today, though, I want to just encourage you guys to come and join me for the homeschool experience at the Arc Encounter.

2:14.0

It's May 8th through the 12th this year. And I'm telling you what you guys, if you've never been to the homeschool conference at the Arkham counter, it's more than a homeschool conference.

2:23.0

It really is a family experience. It's five days of faith building experiences for the whole family.

2:29.0

They're going to equip you from the your littlest ones all the way up to mom and dad. You can tour the full size Noah's Ark.

2:36.0

You can meet the animals in the era at Ridge Zoo. They have live animal programs. It's wonderful. They have a brand new carousel, which I have actually not seen yet.

2:45.0

So I'm looking forward to that. You can walk through the biblical history exhibit at the creation museum. And they have a brand new expanded,

2:53.0

fearfully wonderfully made exhibit, which goes through all nine months of pregnancy and speaks to the topic of abortion even it's just a beautifully done exhibit.

3:02.0

I can and I went through there last year. And now they've upgraded it. And I just think it's wonderful. Come on out and join me. You guys can soak in some practical biblical teaching.

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