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?...
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If Christian Moms Looked for Guidance as Much as Encouragement, Kids Would Have a Deeper Faith
By Natasha Crain I haven’t blogged in a few weeks because I’ve been especially busy since the release of Talking with Your Kids about God. Speaking events and interviews take a lot of time! But it’s been a truly encouraging few weeks, as I’ve had the opportunity to...
5 Common Answers to Kids’ Questions about God That Can Do More Harm Than Good
By Natasha Crain A couple of years ago, my husband and I were invited to a dinner party with a few other new parents from our kids’ Christian elementary school. After we worked our way through appetizers and the requisite small talk, the conversation turned to our...
How Living Counter-Culturally Can Lead to Your Kids’ Resentment of Christianity
By Natasha Crain Our family just returned from a wonderful vacation to the mountains of British Columbia. It was stunningly beautiful! We spent our first day there relaxing at this picture-perfect lake: My husband and kids had a blast swimming out to a wooden...
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...
Progressive Christianity is as Much of a Threat to Your Kids’ Faith as Atheism
By Natasha Crain In our backyard we used to have a beautiful lime tree. One day I noticed that a thorny vine of some kind had started growing around it. It looked enough like the rest of the tree that I figured it was just another stage of growth. A quick Google...
The Art of Raising Kids Who Will Not Bow to the Idol of Science
By Natasha Crain There’s a new hero in town. He’s thought to be all-powerful, always right, and everyone’s best friend. If anyone says something that could possibly be construed as being opposed to this hero, they are to be quickly shamed and put in their place. You...
5 Attitude Changes That Will Transform Your Christian Parenting in the New Year
By Natasha Crain It’s been a few weeks since I’ve been able to write a post because my nose has been buried in writing my new book (if you’re new to the blog or missed what I’m working on, you can read about it here!). My deadline is March 1, so my ability to write...
5 Signs You’re Forcing Your Religion (or Atheism) on Your Kids… and 5 Signs You’re Not
By Natasha Crain Since my book, Keeping Your Kids on God’s Side, came out in March, I’ve been blessed to receive 75 five-star reviews of it on Amazon. To all who have taken the time to leave those reviews, thank you! It means a lot! In addition to those 75 reviews,...
3 Reasons Your Kids May Eventually Think Christianity is Worthless
By Natasha Crain During Vacation Bible School this summer, our church collected an offering to help an orphanage in Mexico. The kids were all encouraged to bring what they could to contribute toward the cause. My daughter, age 7, has always been very generous with her...
3 Key Things Skeptics Will Say to Shame Your Kids for Being Christians
By Natasha Crain I haven’t blogged in the last couple of weeks because my family and I were on vacation. We went on a wonderful trip to the island of Grand Cayman! I successfully managed to avoid email while I was there, but that made for quite a backlog by the time I...
What To Teach Kids About Unanswered Prayer
By Natasha Crain My son Nathan wasn’t feeling well recently so we all prayed together for him to feel better. The next night at prayer time, Kenna pointed out that we prayed for him already but he wasn’t feeling better. She had a look of simultaneous confusion and...
Don’t Be Afraid to Be the Cause of Your Kids’ Questions About Christianity
By Natasha Crain A couple of weeks ago, I started teaching a 5-week “Introduction to Apologetics” class to adults at a local church. In the first session, we talked about the evidence for the existence of God in nature—the origin of the universe, the design of life,...
30 Things You Can Do This Summer to Deepen Your Kids’ Faith
By Natasha Crain It’s now officially summer! For many families, that means a (slightly) less hectic schedule for a few glorious weeks. At the same time, it can mean small-scale panic at what to actually do with the extra time your kids have. Solution: Take the...
5 Things Christian Parents Must Do to Raise Godly Children in a Secular World
By Natasha Crain In the last couple of years, I’ve had the opportunity to speak at several Christian conferences and churches on the importance of parents teaching their kids apologetics (how to make a case for and defend the truth of the Christian faith). When I...
Heaven and Hell: How to Explain God’s Love AND Justice to Kids
By Natasha Crain Lately, my two daughters (ages 6 and 4) have been arguing incessantly every morning. It’s the first thing I hear every day, echoing from down the hall: “Stop staring at me!” “Then leave my room!” “You’re so mean!” “No, you’re the meanest in the...
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...
17 Ways Your Kids Will Encounter Challenges to Their Faith
By Natasha Crain In conjunction with my new book, I’ll be doing several speaking events and seminars. In those events, I’ll be explaining to parents the key faith challenges that their kids will encounter, and what they need to do to equip their kids with a faith...
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...
If Your Kids Are Someday Shocked by the Claims of Skeptics, You Didn’t Do Your Job
By Natasha Crain Popular Christian rapper Jahaziel made the news when he released a statement renouncing his faith (you can read the full message here). As I read his statement, I was really struck by something…the utter predictability of every claim he made against...