The last several major natural disasters that resulted in 100,000s of lost lives were centered in Burma, China, Iran, Indonesia, and Pakistan. And every one of these nations stepped up persecution against Christians throughout the 1990s and 2000s. One big coincidence?

If God exists, and if He is particularly bothered by the torture and persecution of His people, and if He is totally sovereign over all things, then what are we to say? Kevin Swanson interacts with these questions, developing a biblical perspective on God's relationship with man's reality in this segment of Generations.

Parenting by bribery, by threatening, or by anger and impatience - these methods are tried and found wanting by millions of parents again and again.

Ginger Plowman, Author of the book, "Don't Make Me Count to 3," offers advice for moms who do 90% of the child training while dad is off working. Parenting isn't easy, especially if you do it God's way. We're dealing with sin, and we're working in the very depths of the human heart. In this program, you will find wise counsel for the most difficult work you will ever do in your life - shepherding a child's heart.

At the same time that the family is rapidly disintegrating and the faith is dying in America, an unusual movement that began in the 1980s has reached maturity and is set to produce a huge generational effect. The homeschooling movement now makes up about 2.4 million children, and studies indicate that 90% of these students will continue to the vision into the next generation. By 2027 this movement is set to produce about 6 million homeschoolers and if the third generation stays on track, by 2050 there will be at least 15 million home educated students in America. This will produce a substantial movement that will forever change the culture of this country, as well as the politics and the way we educate the generations. Here Kevin Swanson interacts with his recent blog entry that charts the projections for generational growth in the homeschooling movement.

This edition of Generations addresses a practically universal, across-the-board problem that surfaces in mother-son relationships. It is endemic within the homeschooling movement. It seems that a sort of tension develops between mothers and sons as young men enter their teenage years.

Special guest, Norm Wakefield provides some food for thought and powerful counsel for moms who struggle with how to honor their sons in the dawn of their manhood. Also, some terrific counsel for sons who have a hard time honoring the law of their mothers, not to mention sacrificing their lives for those who gave them life.

Kevin Swanson summarizes former Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton's assessment of America's involvement in the United Nations. Although the UN's stated purpose was to end the wars of the nations, were its basic philosophical underpinnings fatally flawed from the beginning? The Generations radio broadcast presupposes that God is really smart and knows something about human hearts, international relations, and these sorts of things. So what does God think about the United Nations?

Now that it's time to graduate his older children, 14 and 16 years of age, Kevin Swanson asks whether graduations are an appropriate rite of passage.

Does a graduation mark a discrete end of some course of study? Or does it mean that you are now free from compulsory education? Or does it a basis for honor? Yet there does seem to be a proper rite of passage from childhood to adulthood. But would you call it a Graduation?

For many parents, it's time to rethink the last 150 years of traditional education that brought us things like proms, graduations, and condoms in the prom bag.

Two of the most hated words in the English Language are Patriarchy and Theocracy. Actually, the words themselves aren't all that bad. Fathers leading in the home? God ruling over all things? Any Christian should be able to handle the concepts. Still, these are words that have of late, been stuffed with meaning that many of us would find reprehensible.

In this edition of Generations, Kevin Swanson interacts with the idea of Patriarchy - the good, the bad, and the ugly. In some ways, the restoration of patriarchy could be the greatest thing that happened to western societies. Yet, on the other hand, it could be the worse.

What to do when you find out that your next door neighbor is a homosexual. . . How do families interact with close relatives who advocate a particular sinful lifestyle and wear it on their sleeves? Such challenging situations are not unusual in the sexually decadent era in which we find ourselves. Kevin Swanson addresses these questions with careful biblical analysis in this issue of Generations.

With science increasingly politicized, it has become difficult for many to distinguish between real science, (testable and reproducible), and pseudo-science. Most of the scientific applications achieved in our present day rest on the shoulders of godly scientists of previous generations like Pascal, Newton, Kepler, Pasteur, and even Charles Babbage (the inventor of the modern computer). But then, what happens when these brave new scientists of the present generation refuse to respect the God of their fathers?

In this interview with Dr. Jay Wile from Apologia Science, we examine the importance of doing science in the fear of God and in humility before men. If we cease to do science this way, the results will be catastrophic. But if we teach our children this kind of science, the blessings of new discoveries and innovation will be as significant as those of our forefathers.

Those who reacted against the permissive parenting of Dr. Spock in the 70's and 80's quickly fell into the trap of whitewashing tombs. Kevin Swanson brings out the critical issue of balance in the raising of children. He covers the important balances of authority and humility, heart and hands, grace and law, affection and correction, and rules and relationships.

For the lack of good biblical balance in these areas, millions of children will rebel in their teen years, fail to honor their own parents. . . And more importantly, they will fail to fear God, love Him, and walk with Him all the days of their lives.

The leading contender for president of the United States has enthusiastically endorsed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The family is already in shambles in America. Nobody's debating that. But what will happen to the few godly families left who still home school and are trying to raise godly children by a biblical model, if Hillary Clinton gets her way?

Here Kevin Swanson reviews the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child and the agenda laid out in Hillary's famous book, "It Takes a Village." He links the agenda of these politicians to the philosophy of Jean Jacques Rousseau, who abandoned all five of his children on the steps of an orphanage on the day of their birth. After all, this was the father of modern education, who advocated the statist form of education from the earliest days of a child's life. His orphanage has grown to include billions.

So Miley Cyrus or Hannah Montana becomes the rage for 8-13 year old girls, as a pseudo-wholesome teen icon, even promoted by family-friendly Walmart.

But what happens when the pop-cult machine exploits her and the millions of little girls that follow her with a fornicating, pornographic spread in Vanity Fair magazine? Just another Britney and Jamie Lynne in the making? And they are copied and will be copied by the vast majority of little girls. BTW, the Cyrus and the Speare families are good Christian families too.

The fact of matter is our children will copy their role models. So Kevin Swanson challenges parents to identify the best role models for their children, and base it on Hebrews 11! What great works for righteousness has Hannah Montana accomplished? Has she laid down her life for the cause of life, liberty, and the kingdom of Christ? Or is she just the latest big star produced by the big star machine, because she was able to capture the latest standard of what's cool?

For lack of a vision, most families sort of wilt and die. But why are visionary fathers such a rarity in this age? Kevin Swanson suggests that young men and women are educated for a box that will not accommodate a generational, kingdom vision. Moreover, the lack of household unity has taken family vision away and replaced it with a vision for a growing state.

Kevin makes that point that every family should have a vision and a set of goals that is unique to that family. He outlines the Swanson family vision, and how it has developed over the years.

One hundred years ago, Laura Ingalls Wilder didn't have a single arrest the first year she taught at her little school on the prairie. Yet, schools in nice suburban areas of the modern cities see an arrest a day made on the school grounds. Laura didn't see lesbian activity taking place in the hallways of her little one room school house. No sex abuse cases either. Yet, reports of such activity are not unusual in high schools, and even junior high schools today.

A mere 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson recommended the Bible and Watts hymnal for curriculum in Washington DC schools. Today, a teacher in Mount Vernon, Ohio is on the carpet when somebody found a Bible on his desk. He swears he didn't open it, read it to the kids, or try to give anybody an education in the fear of God!

Still, parents everywhere insist that their children attend a really good school! The only problem is, nobody has a clue what a good school would look like. The frogs in the pot hardly sense the rise in temperature anymore.

He graduated in the top 5% of Harvard's MBA Program. He's been a guest lecturer at Harvard University. In an illustrious business career, he helped found 20 companies, serving as CEO of 5 of them. Now, he's telling young people not to waste their time in Harvard. There's a better way to learn and it's called the New Venture Academy.

In this edition of Generations, entrepreneur-extraordinaire, family-man, and visionary, Wade Myers outlines his strategy for preparing young men for life through his New Venture Academy

The evolutionists and atheists interviewed in the recently-released documentary film, Expelled, insist that religion should be confined to a little box filled with a few cute little rituals, and it should have nothing to say about stuff like metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology (or science or history or culture or . . . ). Then again, hasn't religion worked pretty hard to attain to this level of irrelvance?

But what say we? Everybody's got a religion. It's just that some religions are more laughable than others. It is true that some intellectuals don't always like to admit their biases and worldview commitments, but when they do - the incoherencies and inconsistencies within their thinking reduce their systems to pure irrationality. "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." Kevin Swanson recommends your family watch the documentary with a thumb in 1 Corinthians 1:16-25.

"The Antichrist is coming! Run for the hills! Don't polish brass on a sinking ship!" Such messages were preached ad nauseam for generations throughout the 19th and 20th centuries in a large segment of the "fundamental, evangelical" Christian church. Unfortunately, this fixation on a pessimistic eschatology did great deal of damage to any kind of long term vision among families. This is one of the forces that killed a Generational vision and resulted in the 1.7 birth rate among evangelical families and the 80% leak rate of Christian kids who walked away from the faith of their fathers.

Forty, fifty, sixty years later, some of us are recovering from millennial burn-out.  Kevin Swanson takes a moment to analyze this millennial fever that crippled the faith in the 20th century, and suggests that maybe we need to address ourselves to "occupying until He returns."

Imagine visionary fathers and Proverbs 31 mothers engaged in a united vision in millions of homes across America! What a contrast with the world of post-modern humanism where 37% of children are born without marriage, a 95% rate of fornication, and where half of marriages end in divorce. Midst the chaos, a biblical vision is beginning to creep back into tens of thousands of households across America.

Here Kevin Swanson chronicles one family's journey, Steve and Kara Murphy from Homeschooling Today Magazine. First, it was mom's vision. Then, dad captured a vision. Now, together they are home educating/disciple-ing 7 sons and 1 daughter using a method that is hardly recognizable to those raised in conventional classrooms!

The documentary "Expelled" opens today on 1,000 screens across the country, making this the most expansive debut of any documentary film in the history of film. The film exposes the squelching of scientific inquiry and intelligent discussion on the ultimate metaphysical questions.

It is a film that is already producing a huge national debate, and is bound to challenge the position of the ruling "intellectual" elite. Throughout the film, host Ben Stein serves the role of the little guy in the Emperor's New Clothes, who points out a few bare facts and stymies the state-sponsored propaganda campaigns. Tearing the curtain back for us, Ben finds a very small wizard indeed.

Here Kevin Swanson speaks with Mark Mathis, producer of the film on this edition of Generations on the background of the production, the ongoing controversy, and the widespread popularity of this film.

The idea of mentorship, discipleship, and education is to pass something along to the next generation.

When there is no vision, there is nothing to pass along to the next generation, and this according to our guest Dr. Jeff Myers, is the reason why there is a vacuum of leadership in the present age. And the problem is bound to get worse.

The message of Jeff's new little book "Handoff" speaks directly to the crying need of the day. But it is a message for ordinary folks. It is for every father, mother, pastor, and master of a trade who has something to hand off to the next generation. Christian Leaders are cultivated wherever a godly vision is transmitted from one heart to another!

With all of her faults, America is still the most generous nation in the world, thanks to the charitable contributions that come from the red states (the states with the strongest, conservative, family values.) At the same time, America is one of the few nations in the world, where the majority of its citizens do not believe they are descended from apes. The multi-trillion dollar propaganda campaign for Darwinism is working so well, when the little guy has a megaphone, and is doing everything he can to retain some semblance of God in the metaphysic.

Could America be the last bastion of hope for faith, family, and freedom in the post-modern world of Asia, Europe, and the Americas? Reporting the middle of the battle for civilization, Kevin Swanson suggests that there might just be an opportunity for a Second Mayflower.

Every reformation has a fundamental principle and a terrific incarnation of that principle. The same applies to deformations, as in the recent deformation of the west in its decline into a raw humanism. The incarnation of the humanist principle came by way of Darwin's Origin of Species.

In this segment of Generations, Kevin Swanson reviews the tremendous influence that Darwinism has borne upon ethics, law, education, and science in post-modern America. Kevin describes how evolution produced a devolution in all of these areas, as Darwinism was used to remove man from God as the Absolute Source of his reality and ethics.

The state of Texas takes legal custody over 416 children without a court trial in yet another raid on a cult compound west of San Antonio. Kevin Swanson interacts with this shocking story, suggesting first that the civil magistrate might arrest every adulterer and fornicator in Texas before taking on the polygamists.

Nevertheless, we are still left with the question of the role of the state in such matters. While trying to preserve family rights in the state, how does one do it when families are dysfunctional and falling apart at the seams? Even the recent California homeschooling case was reportedly precipitated by a disgruntled child in a less-than-unified family situation. Kevin describes the bounds of biblical law relating to family and state jurisdictions, and then proceeds to counsel families that are trying to get along in some state of dysfunctionality.

A program that takes a look at the humanist, Marxist agenda (that does what it can to destroy the family and erode marriage), with the Muslim and Christian agendas active in this country today. There may be just as many committed Muslims today as there are committed Christians in this country, the remainder being secular humanist, materialists.

We also interact with Michael Noer's controversial article in Forbes On-line, where he points out the studies that strongly indicate that universities and corporations are dangerous to healthy marriages.

A new book entitled "Perfect Girl, Starving Daughter," claims that 90% of teen girls "hate their bodies." But what to do about it? And what about the growing numbers of teen daughters that are labeled "over-weight."

Father of four beautiful daughters, Kevin Swanson addresses the issue as a great opportunity for loving shepherding and tender discipleship. On the one hand, there is the problem of the modern body-worshiping cult, something that didn't exist prior to 1900. Then there are sinful, idolatrous, and gluttonous habits that every parent needs to address in the lives of their children during the formative years.

It is critical from the outset to define the standard. Must the standard be the semi-anorexic, wispy woman presented by the "Cosmo Chick?" Or does the Bible present a different standard?

This program would be excellent for any family with children who exhibit any kind of individual Idiosyncrasy or special need, which is just about every child on earth.

Family freedoms are dissipating for many Americans, especially if you send your children to public schools. This is the consequence of several important court decisions since 1980. At the same time, there is a growing cadre of parents that are waking up to the constant efforts on the part of the legislature to erode parental freedoms.

Thus, in Colorado, thousands of homeschoolers appear at the Capitol each year to raise this issue (in what has become the largest annual rally at the Denver Capitol.) This Day at the Capitol event is also equipping thousands of young people in the principles of biblical civil government.

Parents in Oregon are indicted on charges of manslaughter for refusing to use AMA prescribed treatments for their children. Meanwhile, the road to total socialist government is being prepped with the present bank crisis. Following the Swedes, experts are suggesting that the federal government should re-capitalize the banks in the crisis - representing another turn-over of 6% of the GNI to government control.

Would anybody really resist such a plan? The American people are well-prepared to sell their liberty for security every time there is a threat to their security and financial well-being.

How important is it to teach your children Latin . . . or Greek? Two homeschool dads in studio discuss classical education and the importance of teaching your children the languages in your homeschooling. What is most important in the education of children - English, Math, Science or Latin . . . or are all of them important? Using God's Word as the basis for all knowledge and learning, Kevin Swanson draws out the most important points parents should remember when teaching the languages.

The most tyrannical candidate for president of the United States has a record of supporting infanticide, and happens to be the most popular. This is not the first time this has happened in history. King Herod was also a very popular and tyrannical political leader, and seemed to have a penchant for the practice of infanticide.

This leads to a discussion on the honor due to the civil magistrate, and the honor due parents who are less than perfect. How do you honor a parent that abused you, or a parent who has a drug problem and is doing time? Real issues in a really sinful, broken world.

The Academy Award for Best Picture went to "No Country For Old Men," a flick where everybody gets killed, but nobody knows why anybody's getting killed. The stoicism of the 1970's has turned into full-blown nihilism in the 2000's.

Interacting with input to the program challenging any movie-watching whatsoever for Christians, Kevin Swanson tries to find a text in the Bible that equates holiness to not- watching-movies. But more to the question - is this stuff defiling or edifying? Kevin Swanson reviews a number of different movies from the 1970s to the present day, but does he take all the fun out of watching the movies? Listen and find out!

The absence of roots in real community has badly eroded relational life in the 21st century. Modern churches feel the brunt of this problem when they see an almost complete turnover of leaders and members after only 20-25 years.

Kevin Swanson traces the roots of this rootless life and demonstrates from scripture that the life of the stranger and the vagabond in the land is not God’s normative best for you and your family.

For the first time that anybody can remember, the dollar is now worth less than the Canadian dollar. The real estate industry has already tanked. Banking is in serious trouble. Inflation may be pushing double digits, and most people aren't seeing their pay raises in the double digits these days.

. . .And the gods of the copybook headings, limp up to explain it once more.

In this installment of the Generations broadcast, Doug Tjaden, author of a new book, "Fools Gold" gives an overview of what has happened in just the last year. Are we watching an economic cataclysm or will it be a slow bleed? And how do we prepare our families for times like these? Maybe we will learn to rejoice in God and enjoy the simple things despite the chaos around us!

The real estate debacle. The banking crisis. The rise in unemployment. An impending recession. All of this has got us wondering what it really takes to put together a strong economy. In this program, Kevin Swanson unveils the secret to building the best economy in the world. Economics textbooks aside, it's really not all that complicated - fear God and keep His commandments.

Great economies are built by families who know how to work, and who will invest the thousands of hours and 15-20 years required to train their sons in the character trait of diligence. Nations are built, one son at a time. And nations come apart, one son at a time.

More intolerance towards intolerance in Canada! The Canadian government shuts down a Christian ministry for being too critical of other religious sects (like Pharisees and Sadducees, for example.) This spawns a conversation on the role of criticism in Christian ministry. What is the use of it, and what is its limitations? At what point does a critical spirit undermine humility and grace? These questions are addressed in this broadcast of the Generations Radio program.

When Frank Schaeffer, son of the famous evangelical thinker, Francis Schaeffer, calls his father’s writings worse than Barack Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright’s rantings, evangelicals were taken back apace.

Now seen as an “agnostic,” Frank Schaeffer is leading the pack of those apostasizing from the Christian faith. He’s also released a popular book that rags on his parents and his parents’ faith, called “Crazy for God.”

In this segment of Generations, Kevin Swanson compares the beautiful legacy of generational faithfulness with the shameful and destructive effects coming from generational apostasy. Throughout history, the greatest men and the most infamous are often linked to a heritage of faith. But how does it happen? How do children walk away from the faith? We’ve seen it happen, and the results are devastating. Here are some powerful historical observations to which the prudent should take note.

Affection and emotional nurture is key in the life of a child and should be a constant throughout the day from mother and father. Vast differences develop between children who are raised in the cold, institution, and children who are raised in a warm nurturing environment. How are you raising your children? How were you raised?

What has happened in the modern world? Are we producing generations of emotionally-scarred, nurture-starved children? The inclination to brood over the egg has been bred out of the hen. Now has nurture been bred out of women as they are raised in nurture-less institutions to be nurture-less?

Affection and emotional nurture is key in the life of a child and should be a constant throughout the day from mother and father. Vast differences develop between children who are raised in the cold, institution, and children who are raised in a warm nurturing environment. How are you raising your children? How were you raised?

We wade into the controversial question of daughters and college in this segment of Generations, asking the simple question, "Does the average college prepare daughters with a Biblical world and life view, with Biblical normative roles?" Being careful not to "decide" the issue for parents, he challenges families not to passively accept the Betty Freidan and Gloria Steinem philosophy on gender roles. He insists that Christian parents should re-assess God's vision for daughters and start getting a little more creative in the academic preparation of their daughters, rather than naively assuming that the college paideia will de facto support that vision.

Christianity Today reports that seventy percent of American men ages 18–34 view internet pornography once a month, and the numbers aren't that different for professing Christians. The problem is intensifying among our youth. A recent survey done by the University of Alberta finds that boys in rural areas are far more likely to have a problem with porn than boys in cities.

In this segment of Generations, Kevin Swanson defines the biblical principles relating to purity, modesty, and sexual desire. This leads into some practical directions on training our young boys in self-control and sexual purity.

About 50% of those who start homeschooling get discouraged and quit. It's always so much easier to put the children back into the big, monolithic, professionally-run public schools, paid for by 500 billion tax dollars.

In this edition of Generations, two experienced homeschool dads talk about the commitment to homeschool, the challenges for moms, and the support that dads should pay to the program. As it turns out, in due season you do reap a wonderful harvest, but only if you don't faint in the process.

The Pew Forum released a study last week, pointing out that the Christian faith is dying in America. Since 1970, the younger generation is dropping out of the Christian church, and America follows directly in the path of Europe. Children are not following in the faith of their parents. But a new kind of church is forming in America that promises to address the 80% problem (where 80% of children from Christian families walk away from the faith.) These churches are reviving generational continuity, fatherhood, home discipleship, and shepherding. In short, they are bringing relationships back in a cold, institutionalized, programmic world.

In this edition of Generations, Pastors Henry Reyenga and Dave Feddes talk about the development of home discipleship churches in the state of Illiniois, and how this is radically changing the heart of the church in one state.

Should liberals be afraid of Christians who want to take over the world? Some Christians do believe and act as if a biblical system of social reform comes primarily by government intervention. This, of course, is not a biblical worldview. This would be the socialist worldview. Nevertheless, every true Christian ought to apply God's law to every area of life including family, church, and state - and this should yield something far less tyrannical than the kind of civil government we see operating in most western nations today.

Kevin Swanson interviews the Editor of Faith for All of Life Magazine, Christopher Ortiz on the true nature of the kingdom. Does it include politics? Is it primarily the church or is rooted in the family? Today's Generations broadcast addresses the more fundamental issues, and every Christian should be well equipped with the answers..

Part of a biblical vision for the household includes this vital area of hospitality. How do we train our sons and daughters to effectively serve others and love the traveler, the stranger, the brother, and the occasional angel? As we rebuild relationships in family and church (in a lost and lonely world), hospitality will play a vital role in this transformation. Two homeschool dads, Mike Cheney and Steve Vaughan join the Generations program for part 2 of a discussion on this important area of family ministry.

Part of a biblical vision for the household includes this vital area of hospitality. How do we train our sons and daughters to effectively serve others and love the traveler, the stranger, the brother, and the occasional angel? As we rebuild relationships in family and church (in a lost and lonely world), hospitality will play a vital role in this transformation. Two homeschool dads, Mike Cheney and Steve Vaughan join the Generations program for a discussion on this important area of family ministry.

Where will your children and grandchildren be in 50 years, or 100 years from now? Without a vision, families and civilizations perish. But visionary people make an impact on what happens hundreds of years from now! The power of vision to impact civilizations begins with families who get a vision for something better than what they have here and now.

Listen in to this conversation with two of the most visionary dads in America - Scott Brown and Doug Phillips from Vision Forum.

In this interview with Scott Brown and Doug Phillips from Vision Forum, this Generations broadcast addresses the hot-button issue of elections. Should we vote out fear or faith? A critical edition for anybody planning to vote for president of the United States in the 2008 elections.

Police in Oregon are just fine with 1,000 bike riders streaking through town in the buff. But when a Christian tries to preach the Gospel on Halloween night on a street in Salem, Massachusetts, the police throw the book at him, charging him with. . . What was it? . . . Disturbing the peace and affluence?

As the moral compass spins out of control, the Vatican steps in, issuing a new list of seven deadly sins, which smacks a little of liberation theology. Kevin Swanson takes a look at it from the ethical perspective of a biblical worldview. Should we allow environmentally-conscious naked bike riders in Eugene, Oregon to determine the politically incorrect sins of the day, or shall we refer back to the laws of the Creator Himself? We end the program with a true assessment of the most evil things that are happening in our world today, as judged by the Creator Himself.

Are we witnessing an increase in the incidence of attacks on homeschool freedoms and parental choice in America? Judicial and legislative motions to regulate home education are cropping up from DC to Tennessee and from Nebraska to California. Kevin Swanson interviews preeminent education researcher, Dr. Brian Ray on these marked trends. Despite the expansion of homeschool freedoms over the last 20 years, a rising and vocal opposition is forming. Find out what you can do about it in this segment of Generations.

"When I became a man, I put away childish things," says the Apostle Paul. Some say that children are growing up too fast. We're saying that they aren't growing up fast enough. They may be learning perversions earlier in life, but they certainly are not learning maturity.

This leads to a discussion on games and sports. What part should sports play in the life of a young boy vs. a grown man? And what can we say about a family that will skip church for a soccer game? How do our choices in life communicate our priorities?

If the driving ethic behind political action is pragmatism, can anything reverse the slide into Gomorrah? From the conservativism of Ronald Reagan to the big-government socialism of Bush to the McCain/Pat Robertson/Guliani vision for America, where do we go next? The old conservative movement is fading quickly. The old "just vote for Hitler because he's better than Stalin," conservatives are disappearing and losing influence quickly in national politics.

But there is a new breed of men and women of principle rising to displace the old guard. The long term effect of this new movement promises a much more significant impact than previous. The worldview foundations are stronger, convictions are steeled, and they are ready for action. In this segment of Generations, Kevin Swanson interviews Steve Curtis, president of American Right to Life, a new national organization committed to a principled stand on the life issue.

If a candidate for political office were to take a position in favor of infanticide or even killing 6,000,000 Jews, would it be appropriate for a pastor to encourage his parishioners not to support such a fellow? What if it meant the forfeiture of a 501(c)3 certification by the Internal Revenue Service?

Kevin Swanson takes a look at what the lawyers say about pastoral involvement in politics, and then, for what its worth, brings in what God thinks about it. While it is possible for the church to exceed its authority in relation to the state, this is hardly the case with most churches today. Without pastoral leadership and teaching on politics, we will see a loss of freedom for Christians in America.

A California appeals court remands two homeschooled children back into the public schools. The ruling is reminiscent of the German court’s recent persecution of the Busekros family and other Christians who reject a godless education for their children in that nation.

Kevin Swanson points out the vast worldview differences between the statists and homeschoolers. He challenges parents to do just the opposite of what the California courts have ruled. School violence and homosexual indoctrination are just a few reasons why Christians have no business sending their children to these schools for a paideia training.

Nowhere does the battle oideas rage more fiercely than in the area of education. Powerful interests struggle to maintain a monopoly on educational choices in K-12 Education and in university education.

Here Kevin Swanson interviews Steve Ong, president of Chambers College, for his take on a distinctively Christian education, and the forces that are working to dismantle it in Colorado.

Kevin Swanson reviews a recent commercial that epitomizes the "other worldview." The gist of it - avoid the hassle of children, use a condom. Then he interacts with a remarkably honest article from Online Reason Magazine on why people don't have children. They don't like them.

So why don't people like children? Why are children such a huge hassle that kills "quality of life," in the headlong pursuit of personal peace and affluence?

Kevin and Dave, both fathers of five children themselves, try to explain why the average square footage of homes is twice what it was in 1900 while the birth rate was cut in half. Then, they explain why they think children are a blessing - maybe even a greater than blessing that dry wall even.

With the last generation, the Catholics lost a full 1/3 of their adherents, and the Protestants didn't do much better.  That according to a major study conducted on religion in America just released. 

Generational continuity of the faith is dissipating quickly in Europe and Amer