We hope to have many of our Challenge I tutors, parents, and students listening as Leigh Bortins interviews author, writer, and journalist Richard J. Maybury. Maybury is the author of Whatever Happened to Penny Candy and The Money Mystery. 

Richard J. Maybury is widely regarded as one of the top free-market writers in America. Maybury's articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other major publications. President of Henry Madison Research, Inc., Maybury is a world-renowned author, lecturer and analyst who consults with business firms and individuals in the U.S. and Europe. Maybury is the Editor of the widely read newsletter, Richard Maybury's U.S. & World Early Warning Report.

Author Joel Belz founded World magazine, a Christian interest weekly, in 1986. He served as editor and publisher until late 1994. Before that, Belz was managing editor of The Presbyterian Journal, a magazine of theological interest started in 1942. In 1997 Belz was elected president of the Evangelical Press Association. In 1994, he received the James DeForest Murch award from the National Association of Evangelicals. Belz focuses now on editorial tasks for World magazine, having written the lead column for more than 20 years. He also speaks across the country. He is an active churchman, having served in 2003 as moderator of the highest assembly of his denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America. He has been a member of the board of Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, for most of the last 25 years. He has a B.A. from Covenant College, an M.A. in mass communications from the University of Iowa, and a doctor of humane letters from Geneva College.

We hope you enjoy this wonderful Writer's Circle episode by Lisa Bailey. Be encouraged and ready for Practicum this year!

We hope you enjoy this special L@L episode as Leigh Bortins sits down with five homeschool mothers to discuss the joys and hardships of classical homeschooling. Listen and be encouraged!