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Baby Elephant In China Cries For 5 Hours After Being Stomped By His Mom
By Wintery Knight From the New York Daily News. (Printable version linked) Excerpt: Little Zhuangzhuang, a newborn elephant at a wildlife refuge in China, was inconsolable after his mother rejected him and then tried to stomp him to death. Tears streamed down his gray...
8 Things Christian Parents Should Consider Before Sending Kids Back to Public or Private School This Fall
By Natasha Crain This is going to be a very long post, so I’ll cut to the chase: My husband and I decided back in January that we were going to begin homeschooling our twins for middle school this fall…weeks before we had any idea that the coronavirus...
Why Your Kids May Become Atheists No Matter What You Do (and Why That Shouldn’t Discourage You)
By Natasha Crain My 5-year-old and I were playing the game Connect Four the other day and, for the first time ever, she was in a position to beat me. I absolutely won’t let my kids win a game for the sake of winning, but when I see that they’ve gotten into a position...
7 Legit Reasons Why So Many Kids are Bored by Church
By Natasha Crain Last Sunday, our church did its annual multilingual service, with three congregations—Mandarin-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and English-speaking—all coming together for worship. We had readings in multiple languages, and a sermon was given in Spanish...
Handling Bible Questions You Can’t Answer
By Natasha Crain During my Bible time with the kids, we turned to a story they hadn’t heard before – the passage from John 9 of Jesus healing the man born blind. “…and then Jesus put mud on the man’s eyes and he was no longer blind! Jesus had made the man well.” My...
Who Made God? A Cosmological Argument for Kids
By Mikel Del Rosario Who Made God? Here’s a Simple Answer Watching Phil Vischer’s Jelly Telly show with my little boy reminded me that accessible apologetics training is for kids, too! One day after church, we sat down to watch a little clip online. There was a puppet...
14 Ways I Teach Apologetics to My 5-Year-Olds
By Natasha Crain Recently, several people have asked me, “How do you actually do this apologetics stuff at home? How do you talk to your kids about these topics?” When I get the question, the person asking usually looks a bit baffled, as if they are asking how I build...
Committed Christians Are Now a Minority and Kids Need to Know It
By Natasha Crain I grew up in a smallish town in Arizona (about 25,000 people at the time). Almost everyone I knew fit into one of four buckets: 1) committed Christians, 2) nominal Christians, 3) those who didn’t call themselves Christians but accepted...
The Number One Sign Your Kids Are Just Borrowing Your Faith (and Not Developing Their Own)
By Natasha Crain The other day something reminded me of the popular 1993 book, “The Celestine Prophecy” (anyone remembers that?). “The Celestine Prophecy” is a fiction book that discusses ideas rooted in New Age spirituality. The book sold 20 million copies and...
Is Christianity useful anymore? The younger generations don’t seem to think so
By Michael Sherrard According to recent research, the coming generations have no use for Christianity anymore. I’m sure you’ve seen what these sociological studies have found: the younger the generation, the more post-Christian it is. Young Americans are less inclined...
4 Things That Must Happen Before More Christian Parents Will Care About Questions of Faith and Science
By Natasha Crain In my newest book, Talking with Your Kids about God, there are six chapters that focus on the intersection of faith and science. They answer the questions: Can science prove or disprove God’s existence? Do science and religion contradict each other?...
10 Things to Say When Your Child Says They Don’t Believe in God Anymore
By Natasha Crain This weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at the ReTHINK Student Apologetics Conference (there are more of these conferences coming—be sure to check out the link and learn about them!). I always enjoy talking to parents after speaking and...
Do Your Kids Know Why They Should WANT God to Exist?
By Natasha Crain I’ve written over 250 blog posts here since 2011. People still come across my old posts by searching for something on Google, so nearly every day I receive new comments on a wide variety of old posts. Many of the comments are from atheists. As I read...
How to Get Your Kids to Ask More Questions About Their Faith
By Natasha Crain The most popular post on my blog is one I wrote last year called, The Number One Sign Your Kids are Just Borrowing Your Faith (and Not Developing Their Own). That post has been read by more than 80,000 people and shared almost 14,000 times. Clearly it...
Why Your Kids Can Spend 600-Plus Hours in Church and Not Get Much Out of It
By Natasha Crain The other day I was reflecting on how much time I spent in Sunday school and youth groups growing up…and how little I understood about the Christian faith by the time I left home. For some reason, I decided to calculate roughly how much time that...