Botkin Family to Speak at Washington Homeschool Conference

Posted on 25, April, 2011

Geoffrey Botkin and his wife Victoria will be lecturing at the Christian Heritage Conference in Seattle, April 28-30. Joining them for a total of nineteen lectures will be daughters Anna Sofia and Elizabeth, and sons Ben, Luke, and Noah.

The family will be examining the subjects of freedom, leadership, higher education and the culture of the family. Geoffrey Botkin’s keynote on fatherhood will direct men to the one attitude that has been demonstrated throughout history by all of the world’s greatest leaders. Other controversial lectures include Benjamin’s analysis of the apologetics practices of modern home educators, and a lecture by Anna Sofia and Elizabeth on popular literature for young women titled, “Jane Austen and Vampires.” For more information go to www.christianheritageonline.org

Navigating History Online Study Series to Launch December 1

Posted on 15, November, 2010

How can modern American students begin to understand the complexities of the 21st Century challenges awaiting them? Western Conservatory will answer that question in December with a fascinating online video series that delivers fast-paced cultural analysis — live from Egypt.

“We’re dropping a team of filmmakers into the oldest country in the world,” announced team leader Isaac Botkin. “From the moment they hit the ground, students who travel with them by Internet will discover why ideas have consequences and why culture is never neutral. Even after 4000 years, certain theological ideas are still a problem in Egypt and beyond. Why?”

Subscribers who join the two-week journey will have access to web site resources and updates, and six interactive special reports with the filmmakers from key Egyptian locations. The tight deadlines for each of the episodes will also serve as an element of drama for the viewers anticipating the next installment of the adventure. With live timers and GPS tracking, subscribers can monitor the team as they move between destinations and race against deadlines.

“Each lesson which students learn about Egypt,” said Isaac Botkin, “will help them face the challenges of the questions facing young Americans today — in America. We want students to be sharp analysts of America’s political issues, church issues, and family culture issues. Egyptian culture illustrates the consequences of modern challenges with alarming clarity.”

Subscribers can enroll at NavigatingHistory.com. Later productions may drop teams into Japan, Spain, the Horn of Africa, India, Peru, and former Soviet Bloc nations. Each episode will be designed to teach history, geography, current affairs, and worldview analysis to young and old alike.

Geoff Botkin and Doug Phillips Discuss Birth Control on American Family Radio

Posted on 11, August, 2010

Geoff Botkin, founder of Western Conservatory, and Doug Phillips, president of Vision Forum Ministries, appeared as guests on American Family Radio's Nothing But Truth program Monday afternoon to discuss the birth control movement. Both Botkin, who has written on the longterm cultural effects of "the Pill", and Phillips were speakers at the Baby Conference last month in San Antonio, Texas.

From the press release (OneNewsNow.com):

The movement to embrace the vision of [Planned Parenthood founder] Margaret Sanger, who initiated the birth-control movement and the abortion movement in America, began to be embraced right alongside the eugenics philosophy that man can somehow manipulate and control the outcome of what type of people we want to see come into the world," Phillips contends.

Likewise, Botkin points out that people were never told that birth-control pills work the same as abortion.

"As the fertilized egg tries to implant, it's not able to do so. And so then, an abortion occurs," . . .

Continue reading or listen to the broadcast.

The First 50 Years of "The Pill": Geoffrey Botkin Exposes the Side-Effects of Reproductive "Freedom"

Posted on 6, July, 2010

As the birth control pill turns 50, America is seeing lethal side-effects. In just 50 years, the pill has altered a nation’s ability to think. And there appear to be other side effects. Both men and women are mentally different, morally different, and even physically different from the preceding generation. The pill has spread from a utopian dream to a staple in the medicine cabinets of millions of homes. But the pill is not another medicinal tablet. It cures no medical ailment. But it has changed society dramatically.

This Friday morning at the Baby Conference, Geoffrey Botkin will give an inside account of what the pill did to the first generation of Americans who accepted everything it represents.

Children as Pets: Geoff Botkin Contrasts the American Dream with Biblical Family Life

Posted on 29, June, 2010

In the mid-20th century, America's pursuit of materialistic affluence led a Christian nation away from biblical practices. Family life came to be seen as a means of personal fulfillment, comfort, or conformity with popular trends. In some social circles, children became no more than lifestyle accessories, status symbols, or temporary nuisances to be managed by the experts. Geoff Botkin examines the deepest weakness of the American Dream and contrasts it with the grand vision of Biblical family life.

Hear this and more at the Baby Conference: A Family Summit on the Triumph of Life Over the Culture of Death.

Geoffrey Botkin to Lecture on Embryology at the "Baby Conference"

Posted on 28, May, 2010

Western Conservatory founder, Geoffrey Botkin, will lecture on the development of a child in the womb at the historic "Baby Conference" in San Antonio, Texas, July 8-10, 2010. Speakers at this three-day family event will discuss a broad range of family medical ethical issues.

Evenings with Victoria Botkin, Starting March 1

Posted on 10, February, 2010

Starting March 1, women across America will have the opportunity to hear Victoria Botkin answer questions and offer practical insight on wifehood from her years of applying Scripture in her own marriage. Victoria will address topics as diverse as sinful tendencies, personality, and appearance, but all centered around family life.

America After 50 Years of "The Pill"

Posted on 16, January, 2010

2010 marks the 50th anniversary of "The Pill". World Net Daily published a column today by Geoffrey Botkin on the societal implications of 50 years of birth-control — a culture of mental and moral infants. Read the column.

Saturday Morning Online Mentoring with Geoffrey Botkin

Posted on 14, December, 2009

Join Geoffrey Botkin on Saturday mornings to discuss the practical issues of manhood during a nine-week interactive online class.

Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" Published 150 Years Ago Today

Posted on 24, November, 2009

One hundred and fifty years ago today, on November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published by Murray of London. British readers were waiting to grasp Darwin's most flimsy and esoteric ideas, to convert them into a new "scientific" theology, and to apply this new thought to every area of British culture. Every copy in the first printing sold on that first day.

The fruit of Darwin's faith is seen 150 years later in every layer of British culture. Social Darwinism did not create the expected social paradise, but the hellish conditions known as British welfarism. But the British are not willing to admit Darwin's error. Rather, they celebrate his contribution to modernism. Geoffrey Botkin commented on the year of Darwin earlier this year in his article, What Hath Darwin Wrought?