a link for the weekend, pastor's kid Samuel D James makes a conservative Baptist case against homeschooling as a weapon in culture war (i.e. don't do this to your kids)

For those who have never read Samuel D. James before the TL:DR summary is "If you want your kids to become apostates the second they interact with anyone else's views but your own, for the love of God and your kids never even think about using homeschooling as an instrument in `culture war' because I've seen plenty of kids homeschooled that way abandon religious beliefs at the first opportunity".

If you want to read the whole thing for yourself (which is actually not that long), head over here.

https://samueldjames.substack.com/p/using-homeschooling-to-wage-culture

It reminded me of an old church I used to be part of called Mars Hill, if only in the sense that Mark Driscoll eventually seemed to cultivate an ethos within which faithful members who were not tagged as "potential leader" and even those who were seemed to get treated as ... well ... the best description I can think of is fire-and-forget human weapons in culture war politics.  That didn't seem to be the real goal circa 1996 to the 1998-2002 period I encountered but by 2007-2014 it seemed to be a paradigm and, well, as much as Mark Driscoll might want to shill a tale of how a lot of "unbiblical energy" led to the demise of Mars Hill the former Mars Hill leadership culture/cult could be likened to a gigantic homeschooling project in which the people who got free of it wanted to go anywhere as far and as fast as possible from "home" as possible.  

Mars Hill sought, as former pastor James Noriega put it, to create a cultural system within which nobody in it had to look to outside resources to help people, up to and including pastoral counseling for abuse victims.  It would turn out that the plagiarism scandal Mark Driscoll was embroiled in showed that he and Grace Driscoll made obvious use of work by Dan Allender, which Mike Cosper discussed recently.

You can homeschool your kids to be the most America-loving conservative Baptists you hope and pray they can be and they can still become progressive and/or secularists.  Eli's sons were terrible. Samuel's sons were so terrible they got compared to the sons of Eli.  King Saul was a corrupt and then crazy man whose son Jonathan turned out to be heroic. The Bible is replete with stories in which apples fall very, very far from the tree which you would think would be something homeschoolers would pay more attention to ... . 

But unmarried/never-married guys know absolutely nothing, as I semi-regularly heard during my years at Mars Hill. ;)