This article first appeared on the Charlotte Mason Institute blog. El artículo está disponible en español. I am a homeschooling father who discovered Charlotte Mason while searching for a way to home educate my children. I am neither a scholar nor an educationalist. But I am a person who has experienced a genuine awakening as a …
Over the years perhaps the most frequently asked question by conservative Christians about Charlotte Mason is, “Did Charlotte Mason reject the doctrine of original sin?” Many essays, articles, and chapters have been written about this question. Most of these compositions begin with an attempt to interpret Mason’s second principle. This article takes a different starting point. By …
Several months ago I talked to the Deacon of my Anglican church about the theology of Charlotte Mason. I told him that Charlotte Mason said that children “are not born either good or bad, but with possibilities for good and for evil.” He instantly replied that Mason was wrong and that her statement was untrue. …
A few years ago when I was preparing a presentation for a Charlotte Mason conference, I surveyed the covers of books about Charlotte Mason. Most of the covers had a picture of a woman teaching a girl – presumably a mother and a daughter. Some of the covers skipped the mother and only showed the …
Although I grew up Episcopalian, I spent most of my adult years attending independent and non-denominational churches. My return to the Anglican church in 2007 was directly linked to my study of Charlotte Mason’s writings and my reflection on her ideas. In the fall of 2007, I discovered a small Anglican church plant in my …
“Well, I don’t say but you may get to know about most things from books, but as for knowing the thing itself, let me be introduced by him that knew it before me!” (Volume 5, p. 123) When I began to read Charlotte Mason’s writings in early 2005, my purpose was to become a more …
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” (Ephesians 6:12) What did Charlotte Mason believe about sanctification? How, according to Charlotte Mason, does one become more Christ-like in thought, word, and deed? Is it a …
“Like religion, education is nothing or it is everything — a consuming fire in the bones” (Charlotte Mason) We made the decision to homeschool when my first son was a toddler. I realized that homeschooling would require an enormous amount of time. So I counted the cost and figured out a schedule that would work for …
At the 2007 ChildLightUSA Charlotte Mason Educational Conference, on Thursday morning Amber Benton led a discussion called “A Sense of Place.” She talked about how we should know the place where we are, the place that God has called us to. She talked about the history of creeks and streams in her own area and …