HOW TO HAVE BIBLICALLY LITERATE CHILDREN by Cheryl Lowe
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oo often we relegate religious instruction in our private and homeschools to a kind of secondary academic status. We teach it, but in a way that seems to communicate a lack of seriousness about it. We do this by failing to treat it like we would treat any other academic subject. But what I will call "Christian Studies" is best taught as an academic course that is subject to the same standards—class time, homework, and testing—as other comparable courses, such as Classical Studies and American/Modern Studies. The material we use to teach children their faith should be just as rigorous and demanding as that we would use in any other important subject, as should the tests we use to assess their knowledge. Biblical literacy is just as important as cultural, moral, and functional literacy, and the programs we use to teach it should reflect this.
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