Natasha Crain's Blog, page 2

The State of Christian Colleges, with Dr. Everett Piper

What is the state of Christian colleges today? Is a Christian college education worth the money? How should parents evaluate a given Christian college to determine if it’s biblically sound? What are some signs that a school is going progressive? These are just a few of the questions I discuss with my guest on The Natasha Crain Podcast today, Dr. Everett Piper.

Dr. Piper was president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University for 17 years, during which time he led his school from relative obscurity t...

What Investigating Death Teaches Us About the Meaning of Life, with Detective J. Warner Wallace

NEW on The Natasha Crain Podcast today: Cold-case homicide detective, popular national speaker, and best-selling author J. Warner Wallace joins me to talk about his new book, The Truth in True Crime: What Investigating Death Teaches Us About the Meaning of Life. Jim has incredibly unique and valuable insights about life from his many years working homicide cases. In this episode, he shares some of his greatest learnings from "investigating death."

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America’s Disastrous Search for a More Inclusive Deity, with Erwin Lutzer

My guest today on The Natasha Crain Podcast is Dr. Erwin Lutzer. Dr. Lutzer is pastor emeritus of The Moody Church, where he served as the senior pastor for 36 years. He is an award-winning author of many books, including We Will Not Be Silenced, and the featured speaker on two radio programs heard on more than 750 outlets worldwide.

In this episode, we’re talking about Dr. Lutzer's brand new book (just released today!), called The Eclipse of God: Our Nation's Disastrous Search for a Mo...

How The After Party Curriculum Is Sowing Political Confusion in the Church

For those who haven’t heard of it, The After Party (TAP) is a small group curriculum and corresponding book that is being heavily promoted this election year to individuals, churches, and Christian institutions (such as colleges) to counter the “dangerous trend” of evangelicals having their political identity formed by “partisan forces, not by true Biblical faith.”

The curriculum was developed by David French (New York Times columnist), Russell Moore (Editor-in-Chief of Christianity Today)...

Is There a Leftist Agenda Infiltrating the Church?, with Megan Basham

The Natasha Crain Podcast is back from hiatus today! After I recorded my episode with Pastor Jack Hibbs in April, I had to take a break for a while in order to finish writing my new book, When Culture Hates You: Persevering for the Common Good as Christians in a Hostile Public Square. But today I'm resuming the show with my guest Megan Basham to discuss her new and very controversial book, Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda. Megan sets out to sh...

Announcing My New Book!

Over the last several months, I’ve been working hard on writing a new book. Today, for the first time, I get to tell you what it's all about! I couldn't be more excited to share the news with you!

It’s called When Culture Hates You: Persevering for the Common Good as Christians in a Hostile Public Square.

There are so many people both in and out of the church today trying to convince Christians that we need to keep our voices and values to ourselves—and that when we don't, we're "imposin...

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

Today on The Natasha Crain Podcast, I talk with Pastor Jack Hibbs about some of the most pressing examples of deception in the church. (Pastor Jack is the founding pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, which is a community of 10,000 members in southern California. His podcast attracts 250,000 listeners monthly, and he broadcasts to 800 radio stations daily.)

Our discussion is based on his new (excellent!) book, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies.

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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 on The Natasha Crain Podcast, I talk with Dr. Jeff Myers about the biggest faith challenges currently facing the next generation and how parents (and grandparents!) should respond. Dr. Jeff is the president of Summit Ministries and is one of America’s most respected authorities on youth leadership development. This is a conversation that every Chris...

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

In today’s episode of The Natasha Crain Podcast, 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 rights, and the sanctity of life. ADF is also one of the nation’s most respected and successful United States Supreme Court advocates. Since 2011, ADF has represented parties in 15 vi...

Here Comes the He Gets Us Campaign Again: Why Its Portrayal of Jesus is Still a Problem

Last year, I wrote an article called “7 Problems with the He Gets Us Campaign,” in which I critically responded to the $100 million advertising campaign featuring a website, billboards in major cities, a book, and ads that have been viewed more than 300 million times. Perhaps most visibly, the campaign’s ads were featured in last year’s Super Bowl. When thousands of people went searching for more information on it, my article came up, and it went viral—actually pulling down my site at one po...