Generations Radio

Dads and Sons Working the Fields Together It's been 120 years since Almanzo Wilder plowed the fields beside his father in the days of Little House on the Prairie. Now, in a day where 70% of young men are not grown up by 30 years of age, there are a few fathers out there who are recovering some concept of the unified household economy, fathering, and the like. In this interview, Geoff Botkin explains how one pioneering family in the 21st century captured the vision.

At the Capitol or Your Living Room? Life is filled with decisions relating to priorities. How do we best impact culture? Do we put our time and energy behind a pragmatic, watered-down political agenda in Washington DC, or raise a hard-core, dedicated minority of men and women in our living rooms who understand God's Word and are ready to apply it to every area of life? As a father and a candidate for the Colorado Gubernatorial race, Kevin Swanson discusses this issue with culture-changer, Geoff Botkin.

The Homeschool Progress Report 2009 While most studies, reports, and cultural analyses glumly report on the worsening conditions of the academics, the character, the social systems, the economics, and the churches in this country, there is one bright light that seems to be growing brighter all the time. Kevin Swanson continues to monitor the growth and progress towards excellence seen in Home Education. In this segment of Generations, he interviews Dr. Brian Ray on the new study on home school academics that indicates even better results than the last major study conducted in 1999.Kevin and Brian discuss the implications of a movement of 2,000,000 people that elect to abandon a government-sponsored education system, and are moving towards a de-centralized, de-institutionalized, and re-relationalized way of life. How will this impact these communities in the years to come?

Harry Potter, Role Playing Games, and Witchcraft It looks like Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince emerges as the top grossing film this summer. But what does the Bible say about stuff like witchcraft, necromancy, drinking blood, and the like? Might I suggest you look up "witch," "spells," "speaking to the dead," and "drinking blood" in your handy computer concordance. But what about those who insist there can be good witches, good rapists, and good necromancers? Kevin Swanson interviews Marcia Montenegro, the author of a recent book release, "Spellbound, The Paranormal Seduction of Today’s Kids." As one who was deeply involved in the occult through the 1980s with first hand experience in spirit guides, astrology, the "higher Self," developing psychic abilities, praying to gurus, astral travel, numerology, Tarot cards, contacting the dead, etc. etc., Marcia issues a timely warning for families.

Mandatory Family Visitation Programs from Your Friendly Neighborhood Bureaucrat Death Counsels, healthcare rationing, mandatory home visitation programs, and socialized medicine are proposed solutions to the problems facing American healthcare. A number of things are coming to a head right now in our society - the abortion generation is growing up. The socialist mentality that seeks security from government has only grown in the populace. Couple that with the decline in the health of a nation, the rise in obesity, the increase in health care costs and tort costs, and the failure of an economy - and it seems that this may be our only solution. Is Obama over-reaching with the socialist agenda?

Hope for our Time Adolf Hitler's Nazi party has just taken the reins of power in Germany! The Nightmare of Marx and Stalin is just beginning. Good morning! It's St. Bartholomew’s Day in the year 1572 in France. The most pro-infanticide, professedly pro-Marxist candidate ever to run for President of the United States was just elected. Now what? History has its share of tragedy and terror. But is this inevitable? In this exciting and hopeful exchange, Marshall Foster reviews 2000 years of Christian triumphs and the victories that always rise out of the ashes of human sin and tragedy. You will be inspired by this interview!

A Deadly Catch 22 Are we asking too much to insist that our young people wait for sex till marriage, and then wait for marriage until they are 29 years old? Kevin Swanson addresses the catch-22 world our young men face when they are not grown up by 30 years of age, less spiritually mature than young women, subjected to a sexed up, sexed out world 7 24's, and can't have intimate relations outside of marriage. What gives? A cover article from Christianity Today encourages earlier marriage, but how is that going to happen in boytopia where high school and college have little to do with moving a young man into spiritual and economic maturity?

Homeschooling vs. Charter Schools A new study on the academic performance of homeschooled youth is released - and homeschoolers are doing even better than they were ten years ago (in comparison with national averages). Averages hover around the mid to high 80 percentiles. Kevin Swanson compares the 2009 study results with the last major study on homeschool academic performance from 10 years earlier. We also take a look at a major Charter School study conducted by Stanford's CREDO research organization, and the results are much less encouraging. Most Charter Schools are having a hard time getting off the 50 percentile mark. So why do homeschooling parents without teaching certificates and $10,000 per student funding yield results far better than the national average? In a day when academic score are lagging and the character of a nation is collapsing, homeschoolers are excelling and there numbers are proliferating.

Extrapolating the Trends "My son will be 18 years old in August, and he will celebrate his 38th birthday in the year 2029." Visionary men must understand the times and prepare for what lies ahead. They frame the antithesis, study trends, and prepare their sons with biblical character, biblical principles, and a biblical agenda sufficient to address the challenges that lie ahead. Profound changes have already come about since the 1960s. The character of the nation has fallen. The culture has moved from Nat King Cole's Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer to Katy Perry's Be a Lesbian and Eminem's Rape Rap. The debt-ridden economy continues to careen into oblivion. The Aborted 70's and 80's Generation is looking forward to euthanizing the baby boomers who aborted them. So how do I prepare my son for the year 2029? . . . an important question for parents who still care.

Are Christians Different from Pagans? Very little distinguishes Christians from pagans in the present day, but that's because Christians hardly know their own faith. Kevin Swanson traces the perspective on abortion upheld for hundreds of years amongst the church fathers, and points out that Christians have always considered abortion a sin. Those Christians not affected by Greek thought would insist that abortion is homicide. If there was one thing that would characterize a Christian in the ortho-praxic sense, it would have been a respect for human life. Perhaps it's time for those who think of themselves as Christians to reconsider what it is to have a relationship with God. For one thing, you don't run around killing His kids.