Who actually forms your kids. You, under your roof, or the machine that runs the schools, courts, and health systems. In this episode I walk through one random day of headlines that all point to the same ugly answer. A Maryland middle school coaching 11-year-olds on chest binding. A Maine “human rights” commission suing tiny districts for keeping boys out of girls’ sports. Loudoun County punishing Christian boys for refusing gender ideology until the DOJ, for once, steps in on their side. Blue state AGs fighting to weld abortion to federal health care money while red state AGs try to wall off abortion pills. Religious charter schools caught in the crossfire. Same country, totally different religion.

This is not a scattered grab bag of stories. It is one machine asking for custody of your children. I talk about why every one of these fights is really about formation, why nothing in your kid’s life is actually neutral, and why the real “dissident” act is not posting harder but taking back the center of your kids’ formation. Prayer in the home. Scripture. Real history. Pulling them from bad schools if you can. Building parallel options with other families.

If you’re a dad who feels like you’re raising kids in enemy territory and you’re trying to figure out what faithfulness looks like right now, this one is for you.