We are seeking excellence in education, and excellence includes integrating all realms of knowledge, from practical engineering to theology. At Saint Columban's, we think that faith, morals, and ethics are core subjects.
Christians treat work and marriage and parenthood as vocations. If you seek God's will, God will equip you for your calling. With that grace, you can persevere; without it you will fail.
Home schooling is a calling, no less than a career is a calling.
Luckily, we live in a part of the country where it is not considered peculiar to go to church or say grace over meals. In some places, that alone is enough to brand you as a fanatic. The real fanatics, of course, are the ones who are determined to expunge every trace of religion from children's education.
Classical Western art, music, and architecture is, generally speaking, Christian. As home schoolers, we can study Michelangelo and Handel without having to sanitize them of their religious content. We can talk about what Jefferson meant when he asserted that people's rights are "endowed by their creator." This is a great freedom that many school teachers simply don't have, and we thank God for it.