As a number of you saw, I was the person featured in the "In the Spotlight" section of the Sunday Paper. I was honored to be chosen, and I really enjoyed interacting with Jon Rutter (the writer who interviewed me). I was thankful that he got the substance of what I was saying right. I think a lot of this is because he is thinking about a lot of the same things. What an encouragement. I also wanted to thank you all for your kind words pointed in my direction. For the curious here is the article:

"In the Spotlight" Article

I wanted to clarify two things...one big and one small. The small one is that our school (and my home is in Upper Leacock Township). We did live in Manheim Township and East Lampeter and we enjoyed our time there. We really love Upper Leacock. God has opened doors for us to be here and I love it here. I think the paper just got some old information.

More substantively I wanted to add to this answer (which was quoted correctly, but I wanted to make sure that you all knew what I was saying):

Credo:Christianity is a good foundation to explore all the ideas of the world. I don't think Christians do a great job of PR for their own ideas. They want so badly for kids to continue in the faith that they don't want them to have a choice in the matter. But that's not the way the world works.

Here is what I would add:

I, as a Dad and a Headmaster, desperately want my daughters to follow after my faith. I teach them, send them to a school (Veritas) that works to encourage their faith, take them to church, pray for them daily, read the Bible with them, sing with them, and trust in God's promises for them. God uses these means to draw people to Him. I try (succeeding and failure, at points) to faithfully, daily bring my kids to Him. I have come to recognize, however, that I can NOT through my diligence, prayer, or work earn God's grace for them or for me. Grace does not work like that! I can (and I have seen well meaning parents) choke God's grace in the hearts of their children by trying to force their kids to believe everything that they do. We need to start by teaching our kids simple things: the basic facts of the Bible, the Creed (which is the beginning of learning Christian doctrines), and the hymns of the faith. We can not stop there. As children grow older, we need to encourage them to think through the faith. They will have questions and sometimes they will struggle with aspects of the faith. They might even end up in a different part of the church than their parents are in (who they marry will have a lot to do with this). As a father (and as a Headmaster), I have become more content with this (I hope). I want my kids to grasp the faith with their own hands--not with mine. If they only believe because of me, it is not real faith. I, as a parent, have to give them God trusting Him to keep the childish fact growing into maturity. Sometimes this is messy often it most messy in the children with the greatest promise!

Veritas Academy and Classical Christian education stands on this: Christianity is true and it does not shy away from reasonable examination. You will find is more rational than rationalism, more thrilling than hedonism, more beautiful and satisfying than epicurianism, more deeply satisfying than any "ism". It is so because Jesus Christ is the root of all these things. In Him, all things hold together. The Psalmist says it this way: "Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man that trusts in Him (Ps. 34:8).

As believers, we need to have this sort of confidence instructing our older children to explore the faith and to enjoy it.

Again, I was so honored to be chosen by the paper and I was very thankful to Mr. Rutter.