By Natasha Crain Every year between Halloween and Thanksgiving, I feel a little uneasy about the countdown of blessings so many people do. Something seems slightly “off” about it, but I’ve never been able to put my finger on what it is. It’s like a gallon of milk...
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How to Explain to Your Kids Why Social Justice Warriors Hate Christians So Much
By Natasha Crain Black Lives Matter activists cornered a woman at a restaurant in Washington D.C. this week because she wouldn’t raise her fist in solidarity with their chants that “white silence is violence.” If you watch the clip of this happening,...
How to Build a More Discerning, Less Naïve, and Better Culturally Engaged Church
By Natasha Crain In my last article, Christian Naivety is Harming the Church’s Engagement with Today’s Culture; I identified four ways that I’ve seen many Christians respond with naivety to calls for discernment in today’s world. At the end, I asked,...
Christian Naivety is Harming the Church’s Engagement with Today’s Culture
By Natasha Crain I had no idea my last article, “5 Ways Christians are Getting Swept into a Secular Worldview in This Culture Moment,” would resonate with so many—it’s been liked and shared over 250,000 times to date (!). Although I no longer leave comments open...
How to Disagree Better about COVID-19, Conspiracy Theories, and Pretty Much Everything Else in Life
By Natasha Crain Aside from feeling the fatigue of quarantine in general, I am feeling the fatigue of people arguing about the quarantine. This includes Christians fighting with other Christians, Christians fighting with non-believers, and non-believers fighting with...
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...
God Uses Our Dreams and Disasters to Accomplish the Impossible
By Natasha Crain If you’ve read my books or followed my blog for a while, you know that the focus of my writing is to equip parents with an understanding of how to make a case for and defend the truth of Christianity so they can pass that knowledge on to their kids....
Why Studying Evolution Will Likely Challenge Your Kids’ Faith
By Natasha Crain I saw the following post in a Christian Facebook group: My daughter is starting her second semester of college tomorrow. She got ahold of her syllabus and found the following quote from the professor. “Except to one whose reason is blinded by...
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...
10 Ways to Get Your Kids More Interested in Their Faith
By Natasha Crain A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak to four groups of parents during the Apologetics Canada conference (incidentally, if you live in the Long Branch, NJ, area, I’ll be speaking at the No Pat Answers conference on April 9). I ended up...
Reactions to John Crist’s Moral Failings Demonstrate Our Culture’s Confusion about Christianity
By Natasha Crain News broke yesterday that popular Christian comedian and YouTuber John Crist has come forth with an admission of ongoing “sexual sin and addiction struggles” after multiple women exposed years of his sexually immoral behavior. Honestly, my heart sank...
The Idea That Faith is Caught and Not Taught is False…and It’s Hurting the Next Generation
By Natasha Crain As Christians, we have all kinds of pithy sayings that make their way through churches and establish themselves as generally accepted truths. Some end up on bumper stickers, some on wall decals, and some just get repeated so many times that people...
4 Ways Parents Bore Their Kids Out of Christianity
By Natasha Crain The highlight of my summer was a family RV vacation to Kings Canyon National Park. Behind our campground flowed a gorgeous river that I returned to multiple times over the course of our trip. Each time I went, I sat and pondered the “big questions” of...
What Christian Parents Should Learn from Marty Sampson Losing Faith
By Natasha Crain My blog has been quiet since earlier this year because I was finishing my next book (Talking with Your Kids about Jesus; March 2020). Now that I’ve turned it into the publisher and my kids are heading back to school, it’s time to resume blogging! I...
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...
Should You Raise Your Kids in a Christian Bubble?
By Natasha Crain If you read my “About Me” page, you’ll see that my mission as a mom is to raise my kids in a home where faith means more than going to church on Sunday. Indeed, that is the whole purpose of this blog – to help inspire others to think deeply about...
You Can’t Make Your Kid a Christian
By Natasha Crain I thrive on control. I love projects that can be broken into goals, tasks, and success or failure criteria. Nothing motivates me more than the opportunity to strive toward the successful completion of something. I actually have spreadsheets that...
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...
If Christianity is True, Why Do So Many Kids Have Doubts Today?
By Natasha Crain Christianity Today recently featured an article titled, “The Biggest Hindrance to Your Kids’ Faith Isn’t Doubt. It’s Silence.” The article summarized the findings of researchers Kara Powell and Steven Argue on the faith of youth group graduates. They...
What the Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Means for Christian Parents
By Natasha Crain I was tempted to not write anything at all about the same-sex marriage ruling. So much has been written on this in the last week that I don’t see how one more person’s take could possibly be valuable [Note: this post first appeared in 2015, but it's...