When would you introduce the great books that counter a biblical worldview - or a biblical categorization of reality, truth, and ethics? How might you prepare your children for the great battle of ideas? This is a controversial question even among Christians who are passionate about the eduation of their children. Kevin Swanson interviews Jeff Baldwin from Worldview Academy on this very question. Jeff is the mastermind behind Worldview Academy's Great Books program.
July 19, 2011
When the government pays for the food, the education, and the medical care of our children, do they have a vested interest in controlling their diet at home? Now we are seeing parents lose custody of their severely obese children. Even daycares are the subject of more government regulation, as more nations move towards total government control of families and child development. Do parents forfeit their rights as they send their children off to daycare or even to the public schools? The industrial revolution introduced the breakdown of the family and the modern orphanage movement. But what about day care? Is these part time orphanages? Kevin Swanson addresses these important questions as he continues to struggle to salvage the family as an institution in the present day.
July 18, 2011
A well-known PCA pastor waffles on homosexuality and jumbles the Gospel in an interview at Columbia University. The mass confusion over "the gospel" is weakening the evangelical church in this country and all over the world. If there was ever a time when Christians need to take a clear-cut stand on the social sins of the day (that are rotting out our entire civilization), it would right about now! We certainly don't need any more post-modern, non-committal, cool preachers who can't give a straight answer to a straight question.
July 15, 2011
The Republicans voted to increase the debt from $4 trillion to $9 trillion under President George W. Bush, while he increased the non-defense spending more than any president since LBJ. Now, they're playing the political game with President Obama. Maybe a President Michelle Bachmann can save us from our troubles. Or. . . maybe not. Kevin Swanson discusses the debt crisis, and contemplates who might be the one to kick the can a little further down the road in 2012. Our studio audience asks about the Tea Party, voting for women presidents, and the 2012 elections.
July 14, 2011
After 200 years of secular education sweeping through most of the world via boarding schools, compulsory attendance laws, etc., a new paradigm for education is coming through the home education movement. It will have international repurcussions. Kevin Swanson interviews Kay Hiramine, who serves as the International Liaison for the Alliance for Christian Home Education Leadership. Kay is a homeschooling father of five children, and travels the world with his family and a team of interns. Here, we discuss the paradigm for re-integrating the family into education, ministry, and business; as well as the powerful mode of education called “mentorship.”
July 13, 2011
The breakdown of the faith seems to attend the breakdown of family relationships. But what is the real problem with church ministries? Is it the toxicity of the adolescent peer group and its corruption of the youth? Is it the lack of meaningful integration of the older and the younger in the same social setting? Is the church aiding and abetting the disintegration of the family in the present age? Are Sunday Schools the real problem, or do we have deeper problems? Are the current systems just watering down the doctrine of the church, the discipleship methodologies, and the relationships necessary to disciple the next generation? Is all of this "ministry" just too shallow, too insipid to meet the relentless series of tidal waves of apostasy that are rolling over the church in the west?
July 12, 2011
Socialist, Family-fragmenting, Birth-Imploding Dystopias vs. A Heart-warming Homeschool Family with a Bakery Nick Stam is a Dutch Baker in New Brunswick, Canada. He has 12 children, "a Baker's Dozen," and a family business that beats all family businesses. Their children have helped to operate the bakery for years, while they were homeschooled. In sharp contrast with the socialist, family-fragmenting, birth-imploding dystopia around them, here is a life-filled story of a family-integrated business filled with 12 children, sweet breads, a homeschooling mom, and a "papa" who is engaged everyday with his children. Families all over the world will find this story very inspiring! It is a story about fatherhood, families working together, debt-free living, faith, generational vision, and hope for the future.
July 11, 2011
The verdict is in - Casey Anthony has been acquitted of murder, but how should Christians respond? Many are celebrating because “the system worked” while others are as angry as a wasp that had its nest broomed. The prosecution, with the aid of the media, did a good job of convincing everyone that Casey was a bad person, but that does not make her a murderer. Dave Buehner lays out some often neglected and ignored Biblical principles of justice and Biblical law to help frame the Anthony verdict, or even the OJ verdict, not in emotional terms, but in terms of the law of God. Some listeners may find what the Bible actually says quite surprising.
July 8, 2011
Interestingly, the most godless states in America also happen to be the most "educated" states. If the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God, will this "education" you get in American universities make you wise, or just godless? What happens to states that abandon the fear of God, over a period of 100 years or so? Kevin Swanson monitors the decline of the western world, and assigns the blame to the increased secularization of education.
July 7, 2011