But the Mary Leppert comments bear some notice.

Did HEM sell tons of magazines by making sure the whole homeschool world knew about the Gentle Spirit and Mary Pride and the Teaching Home lawsuit.

Much of the information concerning the attempted destruction of Cheryl Seelhoff and her business is offered for free through various homeschool channels. Many still have no idea that such deviousness occurred, in that the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was violated with due punishments and out of court settlements.
I considered it a public service to put information out there, rather than hide it.

Are you insinuating that it should have been hidden from “the homeschool world”?

How many magazines did you sell making yourselfs look like heros with Gentle Spirit???

Probably not enough, imo. I don’t remember the last time I’ve seen anything about the Gentle Spirit case in HEM, but there are some other wonderful articles about various interesting homeschool subjects.
On the other hand, Ms. Leppert, there are some folks I know who have written wonderful articles in The Link. I linked to those articles in your publication in the past, but I think I most definitely had a change of heart after reading your diatribe.

Mimi Rothschild and Howard Mandel, the business you run is a disgrace and you know it. Your young children aren’t even being homeschooled and yet you run a online homeschooling company, I guess that’s how much faith you have in it.

As for you Howard Mandel, I’m not sure you should be quoting scripture or talking about Christian love. Does your faith and beliefs steer the way you run Learning By Grace? Does your faith and beliefs steer the way you trick customers and feed on their insecurities or lack of knowledge? The way you shut down people’s accounts for a late payment on a payment system that is not very clear or set up well in the first place? The way you told customers teachers were on the other end of the computers when in fact, some were not teachers at all? The way you duped employees? Face it, you’re a fraud, so don’t copy and paste some verses from online, okay?

1. You should learn to read more carefully, Mary. We never published anything about Mimi Rothschild’s expenditures with The Link. We merely related her attempt to impress our advertising manager, Barb Lundgren, with claims of spending that amount on your business, with the clear implication that we were missing out on similar amounts being spent with HEM by our refusal to accept her ads. If her claim is not true I advise taking the issue up with Mimi, because it sounds to me like she’s using your business name to bribe others into accepting her advertising.

2. I’ll leave your shrill statements impugning the integrity of our publication for others to assess and interpret, because again, the facts speak for themselves.

Along with hudreds of dedicated staff, we have been running successful online homeschooling Academies for almost a decade. Our thousands of satisfied families return in larger numbers every year. Our mission is to provide outstanding quality, state of the art, multi media rich, online Christian homeschooling programs. We are grateful to the many, many wonderful families who have partnered with us for the education of their children. Despite the economic crisis, the Learning By Grace family of online Academies is experiencing the best year ever.

Deuteronomy 13:12-15 (How to handle gossip you hear)
If you hear it said about one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you to live in that wicked men have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods you have not known), then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly.

Leviticus 19:16
‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people.

Psalm 19:14
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Psalm 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies.

Psalm 37:30
The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks what is just.

Psalm 101:5
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, him will I put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, him will I not endure.

Proverbs 11: 9;13
With his mouth the godless destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous escape… A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy man keeps a secret.

Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

Proverbs 17:9
He who covers over an offense promotes love, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends

Proverbs 18:8
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man’s inmost parts.

Proverbs 20:19
A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid a man who talks too much.

Proverbs 22:11
He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious will have the king for his friend.

Proverbs 23:15-16
My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad; my inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right

Proverbs 25:23
As a north wind brings rain, so a sly tongue brings angry looks

Proverbs 26:20-21
Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down. As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.

Proverbs 27:9
The heartfelt counsel of a friend is as sweet as perfume and incense.

Proverbs 31:8
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves…

Matthew 12:36
But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.

Acts 13:15
Brothers, if you have a message of encouragement for the people, please speak.

Acts 15:32
Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the brothers.

Acts 20:2
He traveled through that area, speaking many words of encouragement to the people, and finally arrived in Greece

2 Corinthians 6:6-9a
In purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors; known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on;

Ephesians 4:25
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body.

Ephesians 4:29;31
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers… Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.

Phillipians 4:8
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

Galatians 6:7-10
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.

1 Thessalonians 5:10-12
He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

1 Timothy 3:10-11
They must first be tested; and then if there is nothing against them, let them serve as deacons. In the same way, their wives[a] are to be women worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.

Hebrews 3:13
But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness

Hebrews 10:23-25
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching

1 Peter 1:22-2:1
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For,
“All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you. Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.

1 Peter 3:10;16
Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech…keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.

1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.

James 1:19
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,

James 3:5-6
The tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

James 4:11
Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.

3 John 1:12
Demetrius is well spoken of by everyone–and even by the truth itself. We also speak well of him, and you know that our testimony is true.