Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va., was opened in 2000 by the Home School Legal Defense Association to provide higher education for Christian homeschooled students.

Robert Kunzman is an associate professor at Indiana University (Bloomington) School of Education. He posts the Homeschooling Research & Scholarship Web site. He is the author of Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling (2009).

Milton Gaither is associate professor of education at Messiah College, a Christian liberal arts college in Grantham, Pa. He is the author of Homeschool: An American History (2008).

Read an Aug. 6, 2009, article from The Economist about the reasons families are choosing to homeschool their children.

Practical Homeschooling Magazine, a Christian-oriented magazine and site based in Fenton, Mo., claims more than 100,000 readers.

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine is a Christian homeschooling company. Along with the publication, the company sells homechooling supplies and curricula.

HomeSchoolFacts.com has news pages and forums and lists some of the more popular curriculum packages used by Christian homeschoolers.

The Christian Life Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have issued statements or resolutions supporting public education, according to resources offered by the Baptist Center for Ethics.

In 2006 the SBC passed a resolution that encouraged “all Southern Baptist churches to solicit individuals from their membership to engage the culture of our public school systems nationwide by running for election to their local school boards and exerting their godly influence upon these school systems.”