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Parenting

How Can We Instill a Faith that Endures?

My colleague at Biola University, Robert Marriot, recently wrote a book entitled, A Recipe For Disaster: Four Ways Parents and Churches Prepare Individuals to...

April 29, 2019

Culture

Another Christian Survey Confirms a National Trend

A recent study from Lifeway Research reveals that “most Americans want more religious meaning to the Christmas season.” 65% of those surveyed said, “Christmas...

March 4, 2019

Current Events

Why Young Ex-Christians Are Ex-Christians, According to the Latest Research

A new, 2018 Pew Research Center Report polled a growing group in America: “religious nones.” This group describes themselves as “nothing in particular” when...

December 26, 2018

Writings

Is Christian Education Simply a Matter of Religious Indoctrination?

My good friend Brett Kunkle and I have been working diligently to address a dilemma facing the Church: the departure of young Christians who...

November 2, 2018
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Christian Living

Try As We Might, It Won’t Be Easy to Abandon Our Religious Identity

The number of self-proclaimed Christians is shrinking in America. I’ve been collecting data on this trend for over ten years, and the surveys reveal...

September 17, 2018

Parenting

Four Ways to Come Alongside Your Kids to Strengthen Their Faith

If you’re paying attention to what’s happening in America today, you’re probably aware of the challenges facing young Christians in their teens and twenties....

September 10, 2018

Parenting

Parents Are Still the First Line of Defense

After a presentation at a large church here in Southern California, a woman approached me at the book table and eagerly asked me to...

September 7, 2018

Christian Living

Maybe Young Christians Leave Us Because They Were Never With Us in the First Place

A few years ago, I had the chance to hang out with my friend and fellow tent-making Christian case maker, Jacob Allee of Nail...

August 29, 2018

Christian Case Making

Nurturing Christian Students As They Engage the Challenges of Atheism

If we hope to reverse the trend of Christian students leaving the Church during their college years, we’ll need to stop teaching and start...

August 10, 2018

Writings

Involving Students in the Battlefield of Ideas

This week, I’ve been writing about a strategy designed to stop the departure of young Christians who leave the Church during their college years....

August 8, 2018
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