The Generations Radio Program

Convenience abortion is more convenient than ever, with Mifepristone abortions (the kill pill) increasing to anywhere from 650,000 to 1.6 million per year in this country. The FDA is doing everything possible to ease up restrictions on DIY abortions. There were more than 2 abortions in Kentucky in September and October of last year. What are the health risks? What happens to a society when the love of so many has grown this cold? How will Christians respond? How do we put these demons back into Pandora's box? God can.

Warning: Consider not including children with this edition of Generations.

A new report from Common Sense Media finds that Christian/Religious schools are far worse than public schools when it comes to peer-influencing and porn-sharing (41% vs. 20%). Less accessibility at home means more accessibility with peers. The majority of children have seen explicit pornography by 13 years of age, up from virtually 0% in the early 1970s. Is there any way that we can avoid stumbling the little ones, and avoid the millstone treatment mentioned in Matthew 18? 

Christian kids attending public schools and Christian schools have registered a non-stop steady decline in adherence to a Christian worldview over 35 years straight. Only homeschools and a few principle-approach Christian schools have done better. Dan Smithwick from Nehemiah Institute explains the recent trends and the reason why there is still no improvement in the overall numbers. Education matters. The shift in Christian civilization in the West occurred at the turn of the 20th century in the schools under the influence of John Dewey and the Frankfurt School.

One of the most shocking moments in the history of Big TV played out last week when the whole professional sports scene turned religious—briefly. An ESPN analyst stopped everything to pray on national television. But why? Did 50 people die in a snowstorm, and another 100 get killed in a hurricane hitting the shores of Florida? Worshiping sports, science, or politics—the national religion is still wrong. Whereas one sports figure collapses on the field may not indicate much in terms of a national problem. But what about 1,100 in a single year?

Not much of the loyal opposition showed up in the 2022 election. Trump blames conservative pro-lifers for not bending on rape and incest exceptions, but at the same time, the former president points the finger at pro-lifers for not being active enough post-Roe reversal. The more basic challenges are still education, pop-culture, the churches, and the lack of Christian-based news media. Why the contradiction in Kentucky? Abortion is down in numbers, but the people vote pro-abortion in the 2022 election. The heart of the nation is severely compromised.

Christian Pop singer Amy Grant is going out of her way to endorse homosexuality, to the point of hosting a same-sex faux wedding. The leading CCM artists are following suit. What about our Christian friends who now “accept” homosexual acquaintances the way they are? Have they sold their souls to the devil, or just sold themselves for the favor of the world? James said those who are friends of the world will be enemies with God. 

British police are busy arresting women praying silently on the sidewalk, while babies are killed just over the fence at the abortuary. Meanwhile, they have failed to solve 1,145,254 thefts and burglaries, not to mention 300,000 violent crimes last year. The UK has reached to the heights of tyranny and useless government to boot. But where do Christian families raise their children in an increasingly lawless society? Will there ever be a restoration of some semblance of government in the West?

Newsweek reports on a prominent evangelical family in America. Three of the children are divorced; there's drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, eating disorders, spousal abuse, and alcohol abuse. Is this normative, or is there a different biblical model for family life?

The weakness of the faith is obvious in the breakdown of the family in this country, but how do we build it back? Kevin Swanson interviews Voddie Baucham on his book "Family-Driven Faith" on this edition of Generations.

The Washington Post has a scare piece on homeschooling and the rise of “Christian Nationalists,” to include a not-very-fair assessment of ABeka (and BJU Press). We take another look at Christian nationalism, and find we prefer decentralization over centralization, and Christian law over whatever Karl Marx was all about, Islamic law, Hindu law, or even Nancy Pelosi law. Was America ever a Christian nation by any definition? And how does a history course deal with the sins of a nation, and by what standard would we define sin?

How did we get from gender role confusion to gender confusion—from feminism to transgenderism? The revolution starts with the Bolsheviks, far more interested in a social revolution over a political revolution. Vladimir Lenin's first commitment was to feminism and the destruction of marriage and the family. The fundamental ethic was not so much free sex, as the emancipation and independence of women, and the dissolution of the family unit . . . with the father or husband as a responsible head. Now that the destruction has worked its way into every developed country in the world, what will Christians do?