Culture has gone through an enormous shift in the last few years, and raising kids with a confident faith is more challenging than ever. Today on The Natasha Crain Podcast, I talk with Dr. Jeff Myers about the biggest faith challenges currently facing the next generation and how parents (and grandparents!) should respond. Dr. Jeff is the president of Summit Ministries and is one of America’s most respected authorities on youth leadership development. This is a conversation that every Christian concerned about the next generation needs to hear (and that should be all of us!). I want to highlig ..read more

Last year, I wrote an article called “7 Problems with the He Gets Us Campaign,” in which I critically responded to the $100 million advertising campaign featuring a website, billboards in major cities, a book, and ads that have been viewed more than 300 million times. Perhaps most visibly, the campaign’s ads were featured in last year’s Super Bowl. When thousands of people went searching for more information on it, my article came up, and it went viral—actually pulling down my site at one point! Clearly, a lot of people are interested in knowing more about the nature of these ads. Fast forwar ..read more

A few months ago, my husband and I attended a pro-life fundraising event where my podcast guest today, Seth Gruber, was the host and speaker. I knew of Seth by name before that but hadn’t seen much of his work. Well, he blew me away that night with his boldness in the pursuit of waking people up to the reality of what’s going on in America today, particularly with respect to abortion. I knew I had to get him on my podcast to share his passion, knowledge, and experience on this topic. In today's episode of The Natasha Crain Podcast, Seth and I talk about the state of the pro-life movement post ..read more

In this part 2 of my podcast on public schools, my guest Andy White (who has been a public school principal for 19 years) explains seven things Christian parents can and should be doing to know what's going on in their child's school and classroom. In the second hour, Andy answers a dozen of the many questions listeners submitted on my Facebook page, including the following: My friends that have their children in public school, especially charter schools, all seem to think “[their] school is different.“ How many of them actually are? The current trend for Christians is “pull your kid out of ..read more

Back in June, I started a three part series on educational choices for Christian families. The first episode was called, “Public, Private, or Homeschool? Thinking Through Your Child’s Education [Part 1].” In that show, I talked about several principles every Christian parent should consider when thinking through their child’s education, and then I shared my thoughts on homeschooling in particular. Then, in August, I did a second part to this series called, “Christian Private Schools: What Parents Should Know.” I presume the title is self explanatory. Today, I’m thrilled to share the final par ..read more

Many Christians are finding that it's getting harder and harder to engage in faith conversations with nonbelievers. With culture becoming increasingly hostile to Christian beliefs (particularly on morality), it's natural to want to just slink away...but that's not what we're called to do. The good news is, it can be easier than you think to have fruitful conversations. Today on The Natasha Crain Podcast, I talk with Greg Koukl, president of Stand to Reason, about how Christians can learn to engage more effectively simply by asking good questions. We'll show you how. MENTIONED IN THE SHO ..read more

Andy Stanley heads one of the largest churches in America, with over 38,000 people in attendance each week across eight locations. For years, he was considered by many to be a biblically sound teacher. But in more recent times, there have been concerns that he is shifting to more progressive views. Because of his past credibility, however, many people have wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. In this week's Unshaken Faith episode, Alisa Childers and I talk about new information that should make it reasonably clear where Stanley stands. It brings us no joy to do this episode, but, for ..read more

Even Christians struggle with believing what the Bible says sometimes. We want to believe it's God's Word, but there can be doubts that nag at us. Can miracles really happen? If they can, why should we believe some of the stranger miracles in the Bible, like a talking donkey? Why would God leave enough uncertainty around what the Bible says that people can come to such different conclusions about it? Even if we believe that the Gospels report some true things about Jesus, how can we be confident that we should believe everything  the Gospels say?  Today, cold-cas ..read more

Social media has been a popular place to share deconversion stories over the last few years, and sometimes so many people resonate with those posts that they go viral to some extent (being liked and shared by thousands of people). There’s one that’s being shared all over Facebook right now, written this week by a lady named Myndee Mack. At the time of this writing, it has 8,000+ likes/loves, 7,000+ comments, and over 3,000+ shares. Clearly, Myndee’s post is compelling to many. I’d like to offer a response. While it’s possible Myndee will come across this article, I’m not writing it primarily ..read more

In today’s episode of The Natasha Crain Podcast, we are going deep on a subject that I’ve long been wanting to address on this show: understanding and responding to transgender ideology. You’ve probably noticed that it seems everything is about transgender issues today. Why, exactly, is that (spoiler alert: it's not a fluke)? Why is everyone talking about transgenderism in particular? Why are we seeing an explosion of people identifying as trans? What’s even involved in the transition process, in particular for the growing number of teens who are pursuing a gender change? What about the popul ..read more