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September 2017

September 25, 2017

If Trump Swears, Can the Children?

Donald Trump called for NFL league owners to fire any “son of a bitch” who...

September 08, 2017

My Daughter Loves Jesus. Is That Okay?

Anonymous asks, My 7yo daughter loves Jesus a LOT, and to be honest, I'm not...

September 01, 2017

Break the Cycle: Spiritual Abuse and the Conversion of Children

I’m in a tiny, sleepy Indiana town. It's 1984. It's where I was born, where...

August 2017

August 08, 2017

Help! My Child Got “Saved” at VBS

Stacy asks: Help! My 9 year old daughter was "saved" at a VBS tonight that...

May 2017

May 19, 2017

Kids “Get” Social Justice

How do we raise kids to be advocates for social justice? This is a central...

May 12, 2017

I’m Bad! Rewriting Fundamentalist Beliefs of Depravity

Our best conversations usually happen around the dinner table. Between bites of mac and cheese...

April 2017

April 14, 2017

What Holy Week Means for Children

Image: Unsplash Holy Week can sometimes be thought of as Humility Week. Stories from this...

April 12, 2017

The Trouble with Easter: How To (and not to) Talk to Kids About Easter

Public execution! Child Sacrifice! Rising from the dead!  Just the kinds of stories you want...

April 06, 2017

Let’s Be Thoughtful About the Way We Share Pictures of Syrian Children

People are changing profile pictures into yellow to spread awareness of the deadly chemical attack...

February 2017

February 07, 2017

BETTER Parenting – Interview with Melvin Bray

Image provided by Melvin Bray Hi Melvin, welcome to Unfundamentalist Parenting. We are excited to...

February 06, 2017

Using vs. Empowering Children as Activists

Like Cindy Brandt, I fell in love with “Woke Baby” from the Women’s March. Also...

January 2017

January 23, 2017

Do Not Use Children for Evangelistic Outreach

Image: Pixabay When I wrote How I Kissed Evangelism Goodbye, my main point was that...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

9 Ways to Prepare our Children for Suffering

Image: Pixabay How do we prepare our children for suffering? John Piper answers in a...

October 19, 2016

John Piper, Children & Suffering – Part 1

Image: Pixabay I don’t normally frequent the Desiring God site as my theology has taken...

October 18, 2016

3 Things to Teach Children about the Cross

What is God like?  Jesus showed us! In every Gospel story, Jesus showed us what...

September 2016

September 05, 2016

The Deadly Sin of Fundamentalism

As I continue to work on my Raising Children Unfundamentalist book project, concocting antidotes for the...

August 2016

August 02, 2016

The Bread of Blessing or the Stone of Original Sin

Who, if your child asks for bread, would give him a stone? As parents, we...

July 2016

July 20, 2016

Talking About Race With Children: The Worst Advice I Ever Gave

Image: Pixabay Several years ago, as a newly-hired education consultant working for the Department of...

June 2016

June 14, 2016

What Harriet Tubman Taught My White Five-Year-Old

Image: Wikimedia Commons My five-year-old tends to have a Song Of The Week—the random tune...

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