Culture

Do you know what the biggest barrier to our kids’ faith is?  I didn’t. Not until I was researching for CHRISTIAN PARENT/CRAZY WORLD‘s recent series on Gen Z. I was prepping for my interviews with Dr. Jonathan Morrow (episodes 54 & 55), and I ran across this statistic from Barna Research: “Asked about barriers to belief, 29 percent of Gen Z members said it’s because ‘I have […]

Woke ideology is everywhere. You can’t escape it. As parents, we need to understand exactly what Woke preaches so we can help our kids to understand it. That means we need to know where it came from and where it is going. We can’t alert our kids to the danger of this godless philosophy if we haven’t grasped it ourselves. I’ve condensed years of research it into this easy to […]

Woke ideology permeates our culture. It saturates our airwaves. It is sung in our songs, read in our novels, acted out in our films, espoused by our educators, preached by our politicians, and even (re)written into our history. But what makes woke ideology so powerful? On CHRISTIAN PARENT/CRAZY WORLD, I’m beginning a new two-part solo […]

At some point, every parent will have to work through a crisis with their kids. Whether their child deals with a substance addiction or battles an eating disorder or questions their sexuality or walks away from the faith, parents need encouragement and strategy to work through these difficult seasons.  Joining me again to discuss parenting through the hard times in the episode 63 of CHRISTIAN PARENT/CRAZY WORLD is best-selling author Laine Lawson Craft. Laine’s brand new book, The Parent’s Battle […]

Statistics show that a majority of Christian kids are leaving the faith when they leave the nest. That means a majority of Christian parents are parenting a prodigal child. Support for those walking through the prodigal journey is one of the greatest needs in the body of Christ today.  But where does the prodigal parent start? Best-selling author Laine Lawson Craft […]

At some point in our parenting journey, we will become discouraged. Probably many times. Sometimes our kids or their friends choose dangerous and destructive paths. There is nothing like the powerful testimony of a life transformed to encourage us in our own walk with the Lord and in our parenting. In episode 60 of CHRISTIAN PARENT/CRAZY WORLD, I continue my riveting conversation with Blake Howard, the committed church […]

We’ve all heard the story of a kid in the church youth group who is now on a destructive path. Many parents are living this story.  Sometimes the lessons we teach our kids don’t stick. The faith we hand down doesn’t become their own. They have outside influences that erode the foundation that us parents seek so diligently to build.  In the episode 59 of CHRISTIAN PARENT/CRAZY WORLD.,  I share a cautionary tale […]

Our culture is selling a pack of lies to the next generation. Are your kids buying?  That is the topic we discuss in episode 58 of CHRISTIAN PARENT/CRAZY WORLD.  Joining me again is Elizabeth Urbanowicz, creator of Foundation Worldview, a Christian worldview curriculum for kids ages 4 to 14. Elizabeth has distilled the catalog of cultural falsehoods into a best-of list containing the top seven most prevalent lies being […]

The Christian worldview is challenged like never before in American culture. With a majority of kids leaving the faith after they leave the nest, Christian parents need to prioritize establishing a biblical worldview in the lives of our children. Our kids can’t keep what they don’t own, and they can’t own what they haven’t received.  But how […]

Every generation has faced challenges from the culture, but the intensity and ferocity of the challenges facing Gen Z is new. These challenges are pummeling the next generation like waves, one after another after another. What are the cultural waves facing Gen Z? We can’t respond to them if we don’t know what they are. Joining me again to discuss these […]