The Natasha Crain Podcast

By Natasha Crain

What's The Natasha Crain Podcast about?

Equipping Christians to think biblically about worldviews, apologetics, culture, and parenting in a challenging secular world.

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The Natasha Crain Podcast episodes:

04.26.2024
40. How to Discern Truth from Culture’s Lies, with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Deception of many different kinds is a pervasive problem in the church today. The problem with deception, of course, is that people rarely know when they're being deceived. In this episode, I talk about some of the most pressing examples...
03.27.2024
39. The Biggest Faith Challenges Facing the Next Generation, with Dr. Jeff Myers
Culture has gone through an enormous shift in the last few years, and raising kids with a confident faith is more challenging than ever. Today I talk with Dr. Jeff Myers about the biggest faith challenges today and how parents...
02.29.2024
38. The State of Parental Rights, with Ryan Bangert of Alliance Defending Freedom
Today I'm featuring the work of a very important organization that every Christian should know about: Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). ADF is one of the leading Christian law firms committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, marriage and family, parental...
02.07.2024
37. The He Gets Us Campaign: Why Its Portrayal of Jesus is Still a Problem
Super Bowl Sunday is in a few days, and He Gets Us will once again be running ads as part of their $100 million advertising campaign intended to "rescue Jesus's reputation." Last year, I wrote a viral article on 7...
01.18.2024
36. The Pro-Life Movement, Culture Wars, and How the Church Got Soft, with Seth Gruber
Seth Gruber is a bold and passionate pro-life speaker and the founder of The White Rose Resistance. His mission is to be a voice for unborn children and to educate and expose culture to the evil of abortion until every...
12.05.2023
35. Public Schools (Part 2): How to Know What's Going On in the Classroom (Plus Q&A), with Andy White
In this part 2 on public schools (see episode 34 for part 1), my guest Andy White explains seven things Christian parents can and should be doing to know what's going on in their child's school and classroom. In the...
11.16.2023
34. Public Schools: What Christian Parents Need to Know, with Andy White
This is the third part of my series on educational choices for Christian families. In today's episode, I interview Andy White, a Christian who has been a public high school principal for the last 19 years. Our purpose is NOT...
10.12.2023
33. How to Have Better Conversations with Nonbelievers, with Greg Koukl
Many Christians are finding that it's getting harder and harder to engage in faith conversations with nonbelievers. With culture becoming increasingly hostile to Christian beliefs (particularly on morality), it's natural to want to just slink away...but that's not what we're...
09.27.2023
32. Living Counter Culturally Can Make Your Kids Resent Christianity
We're raising kids in an increasingly challenging world--which means we have to be intentional in raising them in a counter cultural way. But if we’re not careful in how we do it, it can lead to our kids’ resentment of Christianity over...
09.12.2023
31. When You Have Trouble Believing the Bible, with J. Warner Wallace
Even Christians struggle with believing what the Bible says sometimes. We want to believe it's God's Word, but there can be doubts that nag at us. Can miracles really happen? If they can, why should we believe some of the...
08.31.2023
30. A Christian Response to a Viral Deconversion Post
Social media has been a popular place to share deconversion stories over the last few years, and sometimes so many people resonate with those posts that they go viral to some extent (being liked and shared by thousands of people)....
08.10.2023
29. Christian Private Schools: What Parents Should Know
This is part 2 of my episode, "Public, Private, or Homeschool: Thinking Through Your Child's Education (Part 1)." In this part, I talk about the widely varied types of Christian private school options available to parents, breaking them into four...
07.25.2023
28. Understanding and Responding to Transgender Ideology, with Frank Turek
You’ve probably noticed that it seems everything is about transgender issues today. Why, exactly, is that? Why is everyone talking about transgenderism in particular? Why are we seeing an explosion of people identifying as trans? What’s even involved in the...
07.11.2023
27. Why Does Culture Think Men Are Toxic? with Nancy Pearcey
In her newest book, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes, bestselling author and speaker Nancy Pearcey explains how secularism has villainized the concept of masculinity. For example, one media researcher analyzed more than 2,000 mass media...
06.13.2023
26. Public, Private, or Homeschool? Thinking Through Your Child’s Education (Part 1)
How you educate your child should be a very intentional choice--certainly not something you default into just because you haven't considered the various options available. But how is that decision best made from a Christian worldview perspective? In Part 1...
03.28.2023
25. Navigating Culture with Grace and Truth, with Sean McDowell
Today I have the honor of talking with someone who I think is one of the best, if not the best, Christian models of navigating this tough culture with grace AND truth. Dr. Sean McDowell is a gifted communicator with...
03.14.2023
24. The Toxic Roots Behind America's Spiritual Freefall, with Dr. Erwin Lutzer
Cultural Marxism. Equity. Socialism. DEI. CRT. Anti-Racism. Collective Guilt. Christians can no longer stay silent about the divide between the Bible's truth and the world's lies. In today's episode, I talk with Dr. Erwin Lutzer, pastor emeritus of The Moody...
02.13.2023
23. Who Are You to Judge?...and Other Claims That Christians Are Arrogant
Jesus wants us to be humble, but we can misunderstand the nature of that humility and start to believe the world’s claims that we’re being arrogant about things that we’re not being arrogant about. In this episode, I walk you...
11.03.2022
22. What's Wrong with Bethel Church and the NAR Movement? with Holly Pivec
The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is a popular and fast-growing new movement of Christians who emphasize signs and wonders and teach that God is giving new revelation through new apostles and prophets today. Some churches associated with those teachings have...
10.18.2022
21. How Secular Wisdom Fails with Alisa Childers
In today’s secular culture, there is a lot of popular-level wisdom that passes as self-evident truth we should all just accept--statements like live your truth; you are enough; authenticity is everything; God just wants you to be happy; you shouldn’t...
09.12.2022
20. What Is a Biblical Worldview? with Dr. George Barna
If you have followed my content for any amount of time in the last year, you have heard me talk repeatedly about the jarring statistics related to the shrinking percent of Americans who have a biblical worldview. I’ve written and...
09.02.2022
19. The Homelessness Crisis from a Biblical Perspective with Bryan Crain
There is a crisis of homelessness happening across the country, and many Christians wonder what can and should be done. This is an important question because not all attempts at helping the homeless are equally beneficial nor are they equally...
08.03.2022
18. How Mainstream Media Gaslights Christians
Not only is mainstream media no longer trying to be objective, but they’re also openly advocating for specific viewpoints. And not only are they openly advocating for specific viewpoints, but they’re also strategically manipulating public thought. In this episode, I...
06.15.2022
17. Why Christians Must Care About Politics
There are few things more controversial than whether Christians should be involved with politics, and if so, to what degree and how that involvement should happen. In this episode, I break down two basic premises for thinking well about this...
05.02.2022
16. How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God with Frank Turek
My guest today is the best-selling author and nationally known speaker Dr. Frank Turek. Frank has a fascinating new book out called Hollywood Heroes: How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God. Hollywood Heroes shows how our culture's favorite movie heroes are...
03.01.2022
Evaluating Popular Progressive Christian Ideas with Alisa Childers
Author, speaker, and podcaster Alisa Childers joins me to discuss a series of popular ideas found in progressive Christian writings, using the recent bestselling book If God is Love, Don't Be a Jerk by John Pavlovitz as a case study....
11.11.2021
Yes, Saturday Night Live is Promoting Abortion in a Clown Outfit
This weekend, Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong played a character called Goober the Clown who had an abortion when she was 23 and now talks to people about how normal abortion is in between clown jokes. Every single one...
10.20.2021
The Fast But Quiet Creeping of Everyday Cancel Culture
There are plenty of high profile cancel culture examples that grab sustained public attention, but it’s the everyday cancel culture that picks off person after person without national attention that’s far more insidious...because the cumulative seriousness of what’s happening isn’t...
08.24.2021
Practical Tips for Teaching Kids Apologetics at Home
When parents start to see the importance of teaching their kids apologetics (how to make a case for and defend the truth of Christianity), they often start reading books but then feel stuck as to HOW to pass the knowledge...
07.28.2021
Are Christians the New Extremists? Yes, and That's Okay.
Have you noticed how any view that doesn't track with the mainstream secular consensus today is considered "extreme"? Even Facebook is now encouraging people to report when they've been exposed to so-called "extremist" content. While it used to be that...
04.20.2021
Logical Thinking in an Illogical Culture
There’s something that often goes unsaid in discussions about the importance of critical thinking: Not everyone we interact with will actually VALUE good logic and critical thinking. Many people think emotionally rather than critically and that has a lot of...
04.01.2021
Give Your Kids a Sense of Hopelessness This Easter
If you spend any time around Christians, you’ll hear about the “hope we have in Jesus.” But we’re often trying to offer people (including our kids) something they’re not even hungry for. In this episode, I share why kids need...
03.23.2021
No, Progressive Christian Politicians Aren't Good for America
In an opinion piece for The New York Times titled, “Progressive Christians Arise! Hallelujah!” Nicholas Kristof made the case this week that “with a churchgoing Democrat in the White House, faith becomes more complicated in America”…and that that’s a good...
03.17.2021
Critical Thinking in a Secular Culture
There are a lot of competing ideas in today's culture, and it's important that Christians understand how to think critically about the nature of these ideas from a worldview perspective. In this episode, I explain THE most important thing that...
03.05.2021
Christians Must Care Less about Our Cultural Reputation
The idea that Christians need to fix a growing reputation problem in our society is becoming increasingly common in conversations on social media and even in articles by well known Christian leaders. The assumption is that we’ve collectively gone wrong...
02.25.2021
10 Signs Christian Influencers Are Teaching Unbiblical Ideas
Most people would spot a problem immediately if a Christian influencer said they didn’t believe in the Trinity. But it’s just as important to be able to identify when less obvious warning signs are present. In this episode, I share...
02.17.2021
Christian Private School vs. Homeschool: Making the Choice
More parents than ever are considering alternatives to public school. In particular, many are weighing the relative benefits of Christian private school and homeschool. In this episode, I share about our family's six years of experience in Christian private school...
02.05.2021
Biblical Miracles: Why Should We Believe All This Stuff Really Happened?
Skeptics often claim that the miracles in the Bible defy common sense--that any reasonable person should see that such claims are unreasonable in nature. Christians must understand how to think critically about the nature of and evidence for miracles, but...
01.29.2021
How to Teach Your Kids about Non-Christian Worldviews
Teaching kids about non-Christian worldviews is mission critical for giving them a deeper and richer understanding of their own faith. In this episode, I explain three key things kids should know about the nature of studying world religions before you...
01.22.2021
America's Downward Spiral: What Should You Say to Your Kids?
America is in a moral, spiritual, and political decline. How do you share what's going on so your kids are informed and understand what's happening from a biblical perspective, but in a way that won't overwhelm them? In this episode,...

What's The Natasha Crain Podcast about?

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The Natasha Crain Podcast episodes:

40. How to Discern Truth from Culture’s Lies, with Pastor Jack Hibbs

39. The Biggest Faith Challenges Facing the Next Generation, with Dr. Jeff Myers

38. The State of Parental Rights, with Ryan Bangert of Alliance Defending Freedom

37. The He Gets Us Campaign: Why Its Portrayal of Jesus is Still a Problem

36. The Pro-Life Movement, Culture Wars, and How the Church Got Soft, with Seth Gruber

35. Public Schools (Part 2): How to Know What's Going On in the Classroom (Plus Q&A), with Andy White

34. Public Schools: What Christian Parents Need to Know, with Andy White

33. How to Have Better Conversations with Nonbelievers, with Greg Koukl

32. Living Counter Culturally Can Make Your Kids Resent Christianity

31. When You Have Trouble Believing the Bible, with J. Warner Wallace

30. A Christian Response to a Viral Deconversion Post

29. Christian Private Schools: What Parents Should Know

28. Understanding and Responding to Transgender Ideology, with Frank Turek

27. Why Does Culture Think Men Are Toxic? with Nancy Pearcey

26. Public, Private, or Homeschool? Thinking Through Your Child’s Education (Part 1)

25. Navigating Culture with Grace and Truth, with Sean McDowell

24. The Toxic Roots Behind America's Spiritual Freefall, with Dr. Erwin Lutzer

23. Who Are You to Judge?...and Other Claims That Christians Are Arrogant

22. What's Wrong with Bethel Church and the NAR Movement? with Holly Pivec

21. How Secular Wisdom Fails with Alisa Childers

20. What Is a Biblical Worldview? with Dr. George Barna

19. The Homelessness Crisis from a Biblical Perspective with Bryan Crain

18. How Mainstream Media Gaslights Christians

17. Why Christians Must Care About Politics

16. How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God with Frank Turek

Evaluating Popular Progressive Christian Ideas with Alisa Childers

Yes, Saturday Night Live is Promoting Abortion in a Clown Outfit

The Fast But Quiet Creeping of Everyday Cancel Culture

Practical Tips for Teaching Kids Apologetics at Home

Are Christians the New Extremists? Yes, and That's Okay.

Logical Thinking in an Illogical Culture

Give Your Kids a Sense of Hopelessness This Easter

No, Progressive Christian Politicians Aren't Good for America

Critical Thinking in a Secular Culture

Christians Must Care Less about Our Cultural Reputation

10 Signs Christian Influencers Are Teaching Unbiblical Ideas

Christian Private School vs. Homeschool: Making the Choice

Biblical Miracles: Why Should We Believe All This Stuff Really Happened?

How to Teach Your Kids about Non-Christian Worldviews

America's Downward Spiral: What Should You Say to Your Kids?

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