Why Restoration Writers?

"Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations;
You will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings." (Isaiah 58:12)

I took this verse several years ago as a regular reminder of what my life was to be: Working to repair the Christian mindset in our contemporary culture. My work as pastor, teacher, and tutor of homeschool students has been toward this end: To develop young minds and to help them present their ideas clearly and creatively. I have taught overseas and in the Jackson area. Subjects have included Introduction to Humanities, General Science, World History and American History, Zoology, and Creative Writing.

This blog is for those students. They write some incredible things that deserve to be shared with the world. The topics they choose, the opinions they share, are incredibly encouraging. When students think like this, I'm excited to help sharpen their skills. Each of the posts are their own ideas. We work together to edit the post.

What we hope to accomplish through this blog is best described by John Leax' poem, The Fall's Discipline:

The Fall's Discipline
The Patriarch of Fear believes
in platitudes and in the power
of bombs to make them true.
At his word the earth could die.

In the echo of his rhetoric
I pick the late beans,
Pull the spent plants for compost,
and begin turning the ground
to receive a green manure.

The soil is rich with worms;
the lure of autumn bass- one last
night on the river- tempts me.
But the Fall's discipline
is to return to students,
to move across the garden
sowing the restoration of the earth.
-John Leax
The Task of Adam (Zondervan, 1985)