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...
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Talking with Your Kids about Jesus with Natasha Crain
Jesus of Nazareth is not only the most influential human being in history but God incarnate. Do you know how to talk with your kids about Him? You will after you hear this podcast because author and apologist Natasha Crain is Frank’s guest. Natasha...
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...
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...
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...
How Sunday Schools Are Raising the Next Generation of Secular Humanists
By Natasha Crain Last year, for various reasons, our family had the opportunity to attend a few different churches. Each time, we debriefed on what happened in Sunday school and what the kids learned. As they recounted their experiences, I was struck by how similar...
Apologetics for Children
By Mikel Del Rosario How can we help our children understand evidence for the Christian faith? When people ask me about apologetics for children, I think back to the time when my son was in kindergarten. A classmate would tease him at school by sarcastically asking,...
Should You Force Your Kids To Go To Church?
By Natasha Crain A reader of this blog posed this question on the Facebook page because her boys –ages 10, 12 and 15– are uninterested in church. It’s a very important question that I wanted to address with this post. At the risk of trivializing the question itself,...
If Kids Don’t Understand Why Miracles Don’t Discredit the Bible, Their Faith Will Be Easily Crushed
By Natasha Crain “The light of common sense, thrown on the stories of making snakes out of rods, of the Red Sea dividing itself, of Christ’s making wine from water, curing blind men by rubbing spit in their eyes, walking on water, the story of the flood, God’s making...
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...
8 Things Kids Should Know About Hell
By Natasha Crain Hell is probably not at the top of your list of things to talk about with your kids. On the surface, it seems to contradict all the messages about God’s love that we share with them. We worry about confusing them or having them follow Jesus out of...
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...
A Parent’s Guide to the 5 Skeptics Who Want to Shame Your Kids for Being Christian
By Natasha Crain Having blogged for over six years now, I’ve received hundreds (and hundreds) of comments and emails from skeptics of Christianity. Once in a while, I receive one from a pleasant non-believer who is truly interested in discussing evidence, asking...
Your Kids Will Likely Have No Idea How to Choose Their Own Christian Church as Adults… and That’s a Problem
by Natasha Crain I grew up mostly in non-denominational churches, with a Baptist church or two thrown in. For all intents and purposes, my understanding of the world was that there were two types of churches: Christian and non-Christian. Easy peasy. If you gave me a...