by Hillary Morgan Ferrer | May 7, 2017 | Blog, Hillary Morgan Ferrer, Hot topics, Uncategorized, Worldview, Youth Exodus
This weekend, a blog was released titled “Why Your Children do NOT Need Apologetics.” In it, apologetics was characterized as a fear-based recitation of doctrines which “denies the realities of human experience.” I suspect that it was written in response to the blog...
by Hillary Morgan Ferrer | Apr 22, 2017 | Blog, Hillary Morgan Ferrer, Personal Stories
Many people hear about the “battlefield of ideas” or “the battle for the mind” and think that we are speaking metaphorically. While yes, there are some senses in which it can be used metaphorically (i.e. we are not referring to physical armor and literal swords), I...
by Cathryn Buse | Apr 7, 2017 | Blog, Cathryn Buse, Christian Parenting, Novice, Personal Stories
Why would a successful engineer leave NASA to be a mom, and apologist, and now a #mamabear apologist? Click To TweetI graduated valedictorian from a nationally ranked International Baccalaureate high school. I finished summa cum laude with a bachelor’s and master’s...
by Hillary Morgan Ferrer | Mar 13, 2017 | Blog, pop culture, Uncategorized
Our society is obsessed with this idea of a zombie apocalypse. There are movies, and tv shows, and websites, and Facebook groups, and yes, even preparation kits available on Amazon. While there are certain things in pop culture that I just roll my eyes at and move on,...
by Hillary Morgan Ferrer | Feb 18, 2017 | Blog, Encouragement, Personal Stories
I went to a concert tonight, and remembered something that I like to forget about myself: I’m a crier. I never used to be when I was younger. I remember growing up a total tom-boy and seeing those girls who cried at weddings, and babies, and movies, and whatever and...
by Hillary Morgan Ferrer | Jan 23, 2017 | Blog, Current Events, Hot topics, Uncategorized
I picked the wrong week to stay off social media. I am apparently not in the circles that were notified of this weekend’s “March for Women,” so when Rebekah texted me on Saturday in a huff about pink hats, I wasn’t sure what she was talking about. I am a woman, but...
by Hillary Morgan Ferrer | Jan 14, 2017 | Blog, Christian Parenting, Encouragement, Personal Stories
I’ve often said that we don’t give kids nearly enough credit for what they are capable of. As Barna’s research has shown, dumbing down the Christian message into a hollow, shallow, bumper sticker confession of faith is not making Christ’s...
by Hillary Morgan Ferrer | Dec 30, 2016 | Blog, Theology
In editing the most recent podcast, I realized that Rebekah and I threw the word “legalism” around a lot but never really defined it. Since I grew up in the church, the lingo is second-nature to me and I forget that not everyone knows what we are talking about. So, as...
by Hillary Morgan Ferrer | Nov 6, 2016 | Blog, Hot topics, Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, a post made by a woman in Utah began circulating around on Facebook. In her post, she recounts the traumatic experience of when her twins died shortly after an emergency C-section, and urges the public to discount all they have heard about late-term...
by Hillary Morgan Ferrer | Oct 8, 2016 | Blog, Essentials, Novice, Uncategorized
One of the most common objections to the faith I hear from college students is in regards to some aspect of Christian teaching or Christian morality that they find offensive. Often, these questions revolve around sexuality. While questions regarding the grounding of...
by Hillary Morgan Ferrer | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog, Essentials, Science
Too many times, kids are fed the narrative that science and God are enemies. This may happen so frequently that they accept it as Gospel truth without questioning the premise. As a former college prep Biology and Chemistry teacher, I wholeheartedly disagree. And...
by Julie Loos | Aug 21, 2016 | Blog, College Prep, Julie Loos, Uncategorized
(This is way number four in the blog series The Top Ten Ways to Spiritually Prepare Your College Freshman for Campus.) Pray for them. Strategically. Seriously. Scripturally. Intentionally. Intelligently. And with other moms.* And yes, while you can do it alone, while...
by Julie Loos | Aug 21, 2016 | Blog, College Prep, Julie Loos, Uncategorized
In my series on “Top Ten Ways to Spiritually Prepare Your College Freshman for Campus,” I’m serving up way number three: Develop or reinforce the basic spiritual disciplines of Bible Study and prayer. It’s doubtful parents would send their kids to college...
by Julie Loos | Aug 21, 2016 | Blog, College Prep, Julie Loos, Uncategorized
It’s a faith-building booster shot called apologetics. In my blog series The Top Ten Ways to Spiritually Prepare Your College Freshman for Campus, I proposed that way number two was building confidence for the truth and evidence of Christianity and a biblical...
by Julie Loos | Aug 15, 2016 | Blog, Christian Parenting, College Prep
In my blog post “Top Ten Ways to Spiritually Prepare Your College Freshman for Campus,” I promised individual posts on each way with resources and action steps to help you accomplish spiritual preparation. Here’s number one. I remember it like it was...
by Hillary Morgan Ferrer | Aug 13, 2016 | Blog, Worldview
I had an interesting interaction with a sweet, well-meaning woman on Twitter today in response to the Dallas Observer ‘s article on “The Bible and Beer Consortium.” It should come as no surprise that she was questioning Christian freedom to imbibe alcohol, sending me...
by Julie Loos | Aug 11, 2016 | Blog, Christian Parenting, College Prep, Julie Loos, Uncategorized
If you are the mom of a soon-to-be-college freshman, hang on. You will survive. But the more important question might be—will your child survive spiritually? Even if he or she has checked all the boxes associated with growing up in the church? I have walked in your...
by Hillary Morgan Ferrer | Aug 1, 2016 | Blog, Essentials, Worldview
The last 2 blog posts, we discussed the importance of incorporating suffering and rejection into our children’s wordviews. The final piece of the puzzle is allowing space for doubt. When doubt is not incorporated into the Christian worldview, bad things happen....
by Hillary Morgan Ferrer | Aug 1, 2016 | Blog, Christian Parenting, Worldview
In the previous post, we discussed the necessity of teaching our kids that suffering is not evidence against God, but rather a part of living in a fallen and broken world. Jesus did not come to save us from everything in the world, at least not at the present time....
by Hillary Morgan Ferrer | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog, Christian Parenting, Essentials, Worldview
A coherent, Christian worldview anticipates the storms of life. In interacting with people who have walked away from the faith, I have uncovered three main themes that were not integrated with their view of Christ in a healthy way. Thus, when the storms came, these...
