Random Rabbit Trail Readings

I had a couple of hours today, so I clicked on a favorite blog, from which I clicked on a link in a post, and from there clicked on an article, and ended up on a website I'd discovered years ago when my youngest son was a baby and I had just discovered the attachment parenting community online. I found a lot of articles about parenting and homeschooling by Rebecca Prewitt (she was where I found out about the concerns with Gary Ezzo's Babywise/Growing Kids God's Way) but I haven't been to her site in years. She blogs now! So I read her blog and clicked on some links from her posts. I printed out a few artices she had linked and I'm now reading them. Here's some fun stuff I found there:

During a recent email list topic about whether Charlotte Mason believed in the doctrine of original sin, I found this link to a The 39 Articles of the Church of England (which was CM's church) which says in article 9, "Original sin stands not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk)", but I didn't know what that meant. This AllThings2All blog post explains what Pelagianism is, and then goes on to show scripture references and article quotes to show that Michael Pearl (No Greater Joy) doesn't believe in the doctrine of original sin. [For the record, Charlotte Mason adhered to the standard teachings of the church, which includes a belief in original sin, but one of her educational principles about children being born able to choose either good or evil is sometimes taken by today's Christian to be a doctrinal position of theology.] I don't know enough about what Michael Pearl teaches to know for sure that he teaches Pelagianism, but if he does, it's a serious concern.

I'll also be reading this historical look at blogging from someone who started blogging before everybody else did (at least, that's what I think this is!)

And then there's the Evangelical Update blog which is a response to conservative Christian bloggers by people who aren't conservative Christians.