FYI from Leigh! at Lunch 3/2/11

If you are interested in topics that came up during this week's show, here are a few links and tips from Leigh at Lunch on Blog Talk Radio 3/2/11, "Leigh! at Lunch with Bob and Geri Boyd." (Click on the title to listen to the show archive now).

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Notes from today's show

Visit the CC Bookstore to buy your own copy of Millstones and Stumbling Blocks by Bradley Heath.

Visit Bob and Geri's website, IssuesinEducation.org, to read more about their radio show. Bob and Geri won the 2010 Dr. Robert Dreyfus Courageous Christian Leadership Award.

Read more about G.K. Chesterton via this biography. Many of Chesterton's lectures are available from the American Chesterton Society.

Read about Robert Lewis Dabney, 19th century pastor, and his opinions on early models of state-run education from this anthology of his writings. Also contains links to a biography of Dabney.

The Home School Legal Defense Association covered the 2010 case of a German family seeking political asylum in the United States for the freedom to home school.

The full quote from Charles Colson about Christian education comes from page 338 of How Now Shall We Live, which is available from Amazon.

For a further conversation about the failings of the modern church, download one of Leigh's early podcasts, "If We are the Light, Why Aren't We Attracting Bugs?"

Register for Classical Conversations programs for next year at Classicalconversations.com. Under the drop down menu "Academic Programs," click on Forms and Fees to download the PDF file.