The New Reformation Chapter Four. The New Reformation “In a way, the roots of this story go back to Westminster [Theological Seminary],” Susan Wise Bauer tells me as she navigates through a toll booth while caravanning behind her husband as they drive south from the Jamestown area to the Carolinas for a vacation at the shore. Over the phone, I can hear her children in the backseat. Bauer, the wife of Peter Bauer, the minister who criticized Vision Forum’s Jamestown event, is one of the preeminent names in homeschooling, having cowritten a book with her mother—who had herself homeschooled Bauer back in the “dark ages” before it became the conservative religious movement it is today—that became a perennial bestseller among homeschoolers. Bauer and her husband, minister of an interdenominational church, live in Charles City in southern Virginia on the strip of land where the Jamestown settlers landed and dedicated their colony to God. Vision Forum’s Quadricentennial also landed not ten miles from their town, and Rev.
