You're listening to the Hard Men Podcast, reclaiming biblical masculinity in a world of softness.

Well, welcome to the Hard Men Podcast. I am your host Eric Khan, and in today's episode we're going to be talking about homeschooling.

Now if you follow me on Twitter, I recently made a post arguing that there are four strategic ways

for the church to gain victory in the current culture wars. I shared this as well in a deeper discussion on the Patreon site for our

supporters and because of that Aaron asked this question.

He said, so we homeschooled our daughters in the past, then transitioned to public school, and

now after some consideration we're seriously considering homeschool again.

So talk me into it.

Pros, cons, curriculum, etc.

Thanks brother.

So I thought it was a great question from Aaron,

and I think a lot of people are going to be asking that question if you don't homeschool or maybe you do and you're trying to think through some of the reasons maybe how to talk to your friends people in your community about it, I hope this episode is helpful.

So in this episode I'm going to unpack and make the case that Christian children should

receive a Christian education.

Now as I've recently said one of the strategic areas the church can win right now in the culture war that is sure to unfold over the next couple decades is by

capitalizing on the number of Americans dealing with the school crisis that came

about because of the coronavirus debacle.

We can win now and in the long run by keeping our kids away from the public education system.

Now at this moment you've got millions of Americans across the country who are reluctant to send

their kids back to school because of the introduction of seemingly endless lists of state and federal mandates.

You think about sending your kid back amidst the mask mandates, social distancing, and so on.

And so many parents are wondering how distracting rather than effective a lot of that will be for

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