Good questions: Science and history

Our approach in home education is not so much to shovel content into our kids, but to help them develop skills to find and make sense of "content" themselves. Asking good questions is at the heart of this approach. History and science are disciplines which rely on asking good questions.

I have appreciated  The Christ Files: How Historians Know What They Know About Jesus, by John Dickson. Among others, it is a book I will be reading with my kids in years to come because of how it models historical inquiry. Although written by a Christian, it doesn't smell of reactionary self protection. In fact, it is not trying to prove anything. As the subtitle says, it explains how historians, from all sorts of religious (and non religious) backgrounds, know what they do about Jesus. And, it is accessible for people who don't earn a living in the history department of a university.

Here is a short clip I also found useful as summary of our own approach to Science as Christians. We will be making lots of use of the Centre for Public Christianity,  for our history and science learning in time to come.