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Posts Tagged ‘education’

Mike Donnelly on Homeschooling

Tags: asylum, California, education, George Barna, Germany, homeschooling, Illinois, John Holt, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, public schools, Roy Moore, South Dakota, Supreme Court, truancy laws

Mike Donnelly of the Home School Legal Defense Association and Patrick Henry College recounts the contemporary history of homeschooling, including both its secular and religious origins, and provides listeners with some basic demographic characteristics about homeschoolers. Our discussion then covers various legal challenges that homeschoolers face, culiminating with a discussion of a recent case involving a German homeschooling family seeking asylum in the United States.

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Merisa Davis on Bill Cosby, Religion, and African American Churches

Tags: African American churches, Bill Cosby, Bishop Charles Blake, Brown vs Board of Education, Colin Powell, crime, delinquency, education, Murray vs Curlett, Pastor Tony Evans, Pound Cake Speech, prison ministry, prosperity gospel

Merisa Parson Davis joins Research on Religion to talk about her new book on Bill Cosby’s much publicized “Pound Cake Speech” that he gave to an audience on the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education. She points out that much of the discussion of this speech in the popular media overlooked the religious dimensions of Dr. Cosby’s remarks. We discuss how African American churches and other religious organizations have responded (and can respond) to various social problems facing the Black community, including school dropout rates, incarceration of young Black men, and the challenge of entrepreneurship in the inner city. Your host also reveals his three favorite shows growing up.

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