Over the last six months, I have been exploring a theology of the fall and how it relates to a variety of things we experience in this world—from rodents invading our house to how we birth our children. I truly believe that a failure to acknowledge this reality (that this is not Eden and that all around us is broken and in need of redemption) leads to a host of disappointment in life. I know it has in my own.

My twin boys started kindergarten this year, which has been an adjustment for our entire family. But in the months leading up to their first day, I spent a lot of time reading and researching educational options in my city (as well as the options from a biblical/theological perspective). I was helped by thoughts from all sides in the discussion about how we educate our children. But in nearly every article I read, or message/interview I listened to, one thing was absent (or at least not talked about much).

A mention of the brokenness of this world, and as a result, the brokenness of every choice we have before us.

Over the last six months, I have been exploring a theology of the fall and how it relates to a variety of things we experience in this world—from rodents invading our house to how we birth our children. I truly believe that a failure to acknowledge this reality (that this is not Eden and that all around us is broken and in need of redemption) leads to a host of disappointment in life. I know it has in my own.

Often when we talk about education, we talk about it in ideological terms (how we want/believe it should be) and not in practical/realistic terms (how it really is). Don’t get me wrong, ideology is important. We didn’t choose to put our kids in public school devoid of ideological reasons (and we will share them if people ask!). But we also made the decision from a realistic perspective. We put both our ideology and our real life circumstances on the table and public school is what we came up with.

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