Kevin Swanson summarizes former Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton's assessment of America's involvement in the United Nations. Although the UN's stated purpose was to end the wars of the nations, were its basic philosophical underpinnings fatally flawed from the beginning? The Generations radio broadcast presupposes that God is really smart and knows something about human hearts, international relations, and these sorts of things. So what does God think about the United Nations?

Now that it's time to graduate his older children, 14 and 16 years of age, Kevin Swanson asks whether graduations are an appropriate rite of passage.

Does a graduation mark a discrete end of some course of study? Or does it mean that you are now free from compulsory education? Or does it a basis for honor? Yet there does seem to be a proper rite of passage from childhood to adulthood. But would you call it a Graduation?

For many parents, it's time to rethink the last 150 years of traditional education that brought us things like proms, graduations, and condoms in the prom bag.

Two of the most hated words in the English Language are Patriarchy and Theocracy. Actually, the words themselves aren't all that bad. Fathers leading in the home? God ruling over all things? Any Christian should be able to handle the concepts. Still, these are words that have of late, been stuffed with meaning that many of us would find reprehensible.

In this edition of Generations, Kevin Swanson interacts with the idea of Patriarchy - the good, the bad, and the ugly. In some ways, the restoration of patriarchy could be the greatest thing that happened to western societies. Yet, on the other hand, it could be the worse.

What to do when you find out that your next door neighbor is a homosexual. . . How do families interact with close relatives who advocate a particular sinful lifestyle and wear it on their sleeves? Such challenging situations are not unusual in the sexually decadent era in which we find ourselves. Kevin Swanson addresses these questions with careful biblical analysis in this issue of Generations.

With science increasingly politicized, it has become difficult for many to distinguish between real science, (testable and reproducible), and pseudo-science. Most of the scientific applications achieved in our present day rest on the shoulders of godly scientists of previous generations like Pascal, Newton, Kepler, Pasteur, and even Charles Babbage (the inventor of the modern computer). But then, what happens when these brave new scientists of the present generation refuse to respect the God of their fathers?

In this interview with Dr. Jay Wile from Apologia Science, we examine the importance of doing science in the fear of God and in humility before men. If we cease to do science this way, the results will be catastrophic. But if we teach our children this kind of science, the blessings of new discoveries and innovation will be as significant as those of our forefathers.

Those who reacted against the permissive parenting of Dr. Spock in the 70's and 80's quickly fell into the trap of whitewashing tombs. Kevin Swanson brings out the critical issue of balance in the raising of children. He covers the important balances of authority and humility, heart and hands, grace and law, affection and correction, and rules and relationships.

For the lack of good biblical balance in these areas, millions of children will rebel in their teen years, fail to honor their own parents. . . And more importantly, they will fail to fear God, love Him, and walk with Him all the days of their lives.

The leading contender for president of the United States has enthusiastically endorsed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The family is already in shambles in America. Nobody's debating that. But what will happen to the few godly families left who still home school and are trying to raise godly children by a biblical model, if Hillary Clinton gets her way?

Here Kevin Swanson reviews the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child and the agenda laid out in Hillary's famous book, "It Takes a Village." He links the agenda of these politicians to the philosophy of Jean Jacques Rousseau, who abandoned all five of his children on the steps of an orphanage on the day of their birth. After all, this was the father of modern education, who advocated the statist form of education from the earliest days of a child's life. His orphanage has grown to include billions.

So Miley Cyrus or Hannah Montana becomes the rage for 8-13 year old girls, as a pseudo-wholesome teen icon, even promoted by family-friendly Walmart.

But what happens when the pop-cult machine exploits her and the millions of little girls that follow her with a fornicating, pornographic spread in Vanity Fair magazine? Just another Britney and Jamie Lynne in the making? And they are copied and will be copied by the vast majority of little girls. BTW, the Cyrus and the Speare families are good Christian families too.

The fact of matter is our children will copy their role models. So Kevin Swanson challenges parents to identify the best role models for their children, and base it on Hebrews 11! What great works for righteousness has Hannah Montana accomplished? Has she laid down her life for the cause of life, liberty, and the kingdom of Christ? Or is she just the latest big star produced by the big star machine, because she was able to capture the latest standard of what's cool?

For lack of a vision, most families sort of wilt and die. But why are visionary fathers such a rarity in this age? Kevin Swanson suggests that young men and women are educated for a box that will not accommodate a generational, kingdom vision. Moreover, the lack of household unity has taken family vision away and replaced it with a vision for a growing state.

Kevin makes that point that every family should have a vision and a set of goals that is unique to that family. He outlines the Swanson family vision, and how it has developed over the years.

One hundred years ago, Laura Ingalls Wilder didn't have a single arrest the first year she taught at her little school on the prairie. Yet, schools in nice suburban areas of the modern cities see an arrest a day made on the school grounds. Laura didn't see lesbian activity taking place in the hallways of her little one room school house. No sex abuse cases either. Yet, reports of such activity are not unusual in high schools, and even junior high schools today.

A mere 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson recommended the Bible and Watts hymnal for curriculum in Washington DC schools. Today, a teacher in Mount Vernon, Ohio is on the carpet when somebody found a Bible on his desk. He swears he didn't open it, read it to the kids, or try to give anybody an education in the fear of God!

Still, parents everywhere insist that their children attend a really good school! The only problem is, nobody has a clue what a good school would look like. The frogs in the pot hardly sense the rise in temperature anymore.

He graduated in the top 5% of Harvard's MBA Program. He's been a guest lecturer at Harvard University. In an illustrious business career, he helped found 20 companies, serving as CEO of 5 of them. Now, he's telling young people not to waste their time in Harvard. There's a better way to learn and it's called the New Venture Academy.

In this edition of Generations, entrepreneur-extraordinaire, family-man, and visionary, Wade Myers outlines his strategy for preparing young men for life through his New Venture Academy

The evolutionists and atheists interviewed in the recently-released documentary film, Expelled, insist that religion should be confined to a little box filled with a few cute little rituals, and it should have nothing to say about stuff like metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology (or science or history or culture or . . . ). Then again, hasn't religion worked pretty hard to attain to this level of irrelvance?

But what say we? Everybody's got a religion. It's just that some religions are more laughable than others. It is true that some intellectuals don't always like to admit their biases and worldview commitments, but when they do - the incoherencies and inconsistencies within their thinking reduce their systems to pure irrationality. "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." Kevin Swanson recommends your family watch the documentary with a thumb in 1 Corinthians 1:16-25.

"The Antichrist is coming! Run for the hills! Don't polish brass on a sinking ship!" Such messages were preached ad nauseam for generations throughout the 19th and 20th centuries in a large segment of the "fundamental, evangelical" Christian church. Unfortunately, this fixation on a pessimistic eschatology did great deal of damage to any kind of long term vision among families. This is one of the frces that killed a Generational vision and resulted in the 1.7 birth rate among evangelical families and the 80% leak rate of Christian kids who walked away from the faith of their fathers.

Forty, fifty, sixty years later, some of us are recovering from millennial burn-out.  Kevin Swanson takes a moment to analyze this millennial fever that crippled the faith in the 20th century, and suggests that maybe we need to address ourselves to "occupying until He returns."

Imagine visionary fathers and Proverbs 31 mothers engaged in a united vision in millions of homes across America! What a contrast with the world of post-modern humanism where 37% of children are born without marriage, a 95% rate of fornication, and where half of marriages end in divorce. Midst the chaos, a biblical vision is beginning to creep back into tens of thousands of households across America.

Here Kevin Swanson chronicles one family's journey, Steve and Kara Murphy from Homeschooling Today Magazine. First, it was mom's vision. Then, dad captured a vision. Now, together they are home educating/disciple-ing 7 sons and 1 daughter using a method that is hardly recognizable to those raised in conventional classrooms!

The documentary "Expelled" opens today on 1,000 screens across the country, making this the most expansive debut of any documentary film in the history of film. The film exposes the squelching of scientific inquiry and intelligent discussion on the ultimate metaphysical questions.

It is a film that is already producing a huge national debate, and is bound to challenge the position of the ruling "intellectual" elite. Throughout the film, host Ben Stein serves the role of the little guy in the Emperor's New Clothes, who points out a few bare facts and stymies the state-sponsored propaganda campaigns. Tearing the curtain back for us, Ben finds a very small wizard indeed.

Here Kevin Swanson speaks with Mark Mathis, producer of the film on this edition of Generations on the background of the production, the ongoing controversy, and the widespread popularity of this film.

The idea of mentorship, discipleship, and education is to pass something along to the next generation.

When there is no vision, there is nothing to pass along to the next generation, and this according to our guest Dr. Jeff Myers, is the reason why there is a vacuum of leadership in the present age. And the problem is bound to get worse.

The message of Jeff's new little book "Handoff" speaks directly to the crying need of the day. But it is a message for ordinary folks. It is for every father, mother, pastor, and master of a trade who has something to hand off to the next generation. Christian Leaders are cultivated wherever a godly vision is transmitted from one heart to another!

With all of her faults, America is still the most generous nation in the world, thanks to the charitable contributions that come from the red states (the states with the strongest, conservative, family values.) At the same time, America is one of the few nations in the world, where the majority of its citizens do not believe they are descended from apes. The multi-trillion dollar propaganda campaign for Darwinism is working so well, when the little guy has a megaphone, and is doing everything he can to retain some semblance of God in the metaphysic.

Could America be the last bastion of hope for faith, family, and freedom in the post-modern world of Asia, Europe, and the Americas? Reporting the middle of the battle for civilization, Kevin Swanson suggests that there might just be an opportunity for a Second Mayflower.

Every reformation has a fundamental principle and a terrific incarnation of that principle. The same applies to deformations, as in the recent deformation of the west in its decline into a raw humanism. The incarnation of the humanist principle came by way of Darwin's Origin of Species.

In this segment of Generations, Kevin Swanson reviews the tremendous influence that Darwinism has borne upon ethics, law, education, and science in post-modern America. Kevin describes how evolution produced a devolution in all of these areas, as Darwinism was used to remove man from God as the Absolute Source of his reality and ethics.

The state of Texas takes legal custody over 416 children without a court trial in yet another raid on a cult compound west of San Antonio. Kevin Swanson interacts with this shocking story, suggesting first that the civil magistrate might arrest every adulterer and fornicator in Texas before taking on the polygamists.

Nevertheless, we are still left with the question of the role of the state in such matters. While trying to preserve family rights in the state, how does one do it when families are dysfunctional and falling apart at the seams? Even the recent California homeschooling case was reportedly precipitated by a disgruntled child in a less-than-unified family situation. Kevin describes the bounds of biblical law relating to family and state jurisdictions, and then proceeds to counsel families that are trying to get along in some state of dysfunctionality.

The state of Texas takes legal custody over 416 children without a court trial in yet another raid on a cult compound west of San Antonio. Kevin Swanson interacts with this shocking story, suggesting first that the civil magistrate might arrest every adulterer and fornicator in Texas before taking on the polygamists.

Nevertheless, we are still left with the question of the role of the state in such matters. While trying to preserve family rights in the state, how does one do it when families are dysfunctional and falling apart at the seams? Even the recent California homeschooling case was reportedly precipitated by a disgruntled child in a less-than-unified family situation. Kevin describes the bounds of biblical law relating to family and state jurisdictions, and then proceeds to counsel families that are trying to get along in some state of dysfunctionality.

A new book entitled "Perfect Girl, Starving Daughter," claims that 90% of teen girls "hate their bodies." But what to do about it? And what about the growing numbers of teen daughters that are labeled "over-weight."

Father of four beautiful daughters, Kevin Swanson addresses the issue as a great opportunity for loving shepherding and tender discipleship. On the one hand, there is the problem of the modern body-worshiping cult, something that didn't exist prior to 1900. Then there are sinful, idolatrous, and gluttonous habits that every parent needs to address in the lives of their children during the formative years.

It is critical from the outset to define the standard. Must the standard be the semi-anorexic, wispy woman presented by the "Cosmo Chick?" Or does the Bible present a different standard?

This program would be excellent for any family with children who exhibit any kind of individual Idiosyncrasy or special need, which is just about every child on earth.

Family freedoms are dissipating for many Americans, especially if you send your children to public schools. This is the consequence of several important court decisions since 1980. At the same time, there is a growing cadre of parents that are waking up to the constant efforts on the part of the legislature to erode parental freedoms.

Thus, in Colorado, thousands of homeschoolers appear at the Capitol each year to raise this issue (in what has become the largest annual rally at the Denver Capitol.) This Day at the Capitol event is also equipping thousands of young people in the principles of biblical civil government.

Parents in Oregon are indicted on charges of manslaughter for refusing to use AMA prescribed treatments for their children. Meanwhile, the road to total socialist government is being prepped with the present bank crisis. Following the Swedes, experts are suggesting that the federal government should re-capitalize the banks in the crisis - representing another turn-over of 6% of the GNI to government control.

Would anybody really resist such a plan? The American people are well-prepared to sell their liberty for security every time there is a threat to their security and financial well-being.

How important is it to teach your children Latin . . . or Greek? Two homeschool dads in studio discuss classical education and the importance of teaching your children the languages in your homeschooling. What is most important in the education of children - English, Math, Science or Latin . . . or are all of them important? Using God's Word as the basis for all knowledge and learning, Kevin Swanson draws out the most important points parents should remember when teaching the languages.

The most tyrannical candidate for president of the United States has a record of supporting infanticide, and happens to be the most popular. This is not the first time this has happened in history. King Herod was also a very popular and tyrannical political leader, and seemed to have a penchant for the practice of infanticide.

This leads to a discussion on the honor due to the civil magistrate, and the honor due parents who are less than perfect. How do you honor a parent that abused you, or a parent who has a drug problem and is doing time? Real issues in a really sinful, broken world.

The Academy Award for Best Picture went to "No Country For Old Men," a flick where everybody gets killed, but nobody knows why anybody's getting killed. The stoicism of the 1970's has turned into full-blown nihilism in the 2000's.

Interacting with input to the program challenging any movie-watching whatsoever for Christians, Kevin Swanson tries to find a text in the Bible that equates holiness to not- watching-movies. But more to the question - is this stuff defiling or edifying? Kevin Swanson reviews a number of different movies from the 1970s to the present day, but does he take all the fun out of watching the movies? Listen and find out!

The absence of roots in real community has badly eroded relational life in the 21st century. Modern churches feel the brunt of this problem when they see an almost complete turnover of leaders and members after only 20-25 years.

Kevin Swanson traces the roots of this rootless life and demonstrates from scripture that the life of the stranger and the vagabond in the land is not God’s normative best for you and your family.

For the first time that anybody can remember, the dollar is now worth less than the Canadian dollar. The real estate industry has already tanked. Banking is in serious trouble. Inflation may be pushing double digits, and most people aren't seeing their pay raises in the double digits these days.

. . .And the gods of the copybook headings, limp up to explain it once more.

In this installment of the Generations broadcast, Doug Tjaden, author of a new book, "Fools Gold" gives an overview of what has happened in just the last year. Are we watching an economic cataclysm or will it be a slow bleed? And how do we prepare our families for times like these? Maybe we will learn to rejoice in God and enjoy the simple things despite the chaos around us!

The real estate debacle. The banking crisis. The rise in unemployment. An impending recession. All of this has got us wondering what it really takes to put together a strong economy. In this program, Kevin Swanson unveils the secret to building the best economy in the world. Economics textbooks aside, it's really not all that complicated - fear God and keep His commandments.

Great economies are built by families who know how to work, and who will invest the thousands of hours and 15-20 years required to train their sons in the character trait of diligence. Nations are built, one son at a time. And nations come apart, one son at a time.

More intolerance towards intolerance in Canada! The Canadian government shuts down a Christian ministry for being too critical of other religious sects (like Pharisees and Sadducees, for example.) This spawns a conversation on the role of criticism in Christian ministry. What is the use of it, and what is its limitations? At what point does a critical spirit undermine humility and grace? These questions are addressed in this broadcast of the Generations Radio program.

When Frank Schaeffer, son of the famous evangelical thinker, Francis Schaeffer, calls his father’s writings worse than Barack Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright’s rantings, evangelicals were taken back apace.

Now seen as an “agnostic,” Frank Schaeffer is leading the pack of those apostasizing from the Christian faith. He’s also released a popular book that rags on his parents and his parents’ faith, called “Crazy for God.”

In this segment of Generations, Kevin Swanson compares the beautiful legacy of generational faithfulness with the shameful and destructive effects coming from generational apostasy. Throughout history, the greatest men and the most infamous are often linked to a heritage of faith. But how does it happen? How do children walk away from the faith? We’ve seen it happen, and the results are devastating. Here are some powerful historical observations to which the prudent should take note.

Affection and emotional nurture is key in the life of a child and should be a constant throughout the day from mother and father. Vast differences develop between children who are raised in the cold, institution, and children who are raised in a warm nurturing environment. How are you raising your children? How were you raised?

What has happened in the modern world? Are we producing generations of emotionally-scarred, nurture-starved children? The inclination to brood over the egg has been bred out of the hen. Now has nurture been bred out of women as they are raised in nurture-less institutions to be nurture-less?

Affection and emotional nurture is key in the life of a child and should be a constant throughout the day from mother and father. Vast differences develop between children who are raised in the cold, institution, and children who are raised in a warm nurturing environment. How are you raising your children? How were you raised?

We wade into the controversial question of daughters and college in this segment of Generations, asking the simple question, "Does the average college prepare daughters with a Biblical world and life view, with Biblical normative roles?" Being careful not to "decide" the issue for parents, he challenges families not to passively accept the Betty Freidan and Gloria Steinem philosophy on gender roles. He insists that Christian parents should re-assess God's vision for daughters and start getting a little more creative in the academic preparation of their daughters, rather than naively assuming that the college paideia will de facto support that vision

Christianity Today reports that seventy percent of American men ages 18–34 view internet pornography once a month, and the numbers aren't that different for professing Christians. The problem is intensifying among our youth. A recent survey done by the University of Alberta finds that boys in rural areas are far more likely to have a problem with porn than boys in cities.

In this segment of Generations, Kevin Swanson defines the biblical principles relating to purity, modesty, and sexual desire. This leads into some practical directions on training our young boys in self-control and sexual purity.

About 50% of those who start homeschooling get discouraged and quit. It's always so much easier to put the children back into the big, monolithic, professionally-run public schools, paid for by 500 billion tax dollars.

In this edition of Generations, two experienced homeschool dads talk about the commitment to homeschool, the challenges for moms, and the support that dads should pay to the program. As it turns out, in due season you do reap a wonderful harvest, but only if you don't faint in the process.

The Pew Forum released a study last week, pointing out that the Christian faith is dying in America. Since 1970, the younger generation is dropping out of the Christian church, and America follows directly in the path of Europe. Children are not following in the faith of their parents. But a new kind of church is forming in America that promises to address the 80% problem (where 80% of children from Christian families walk away from the faith.) These churches are reviving generational continuity, fatherhood, home discipleship, and shepherding. In short, they are bringing relationships back in a cold, institutionalized, programmic world.

In this edition of Generations, Pastors Henry Reyenga and Dave Feddes talk about the development of home discipleship churches in the state of Illiniois, and how this is radically changing the heart of the church in one state.

Should liberals be afraid of Christians who want to take over the world? Some Christians do believe and act as if a biblical system of social reform comes primarily by government intervention. This, of course, is not a biblical worldview. This would be the socialist worldview. Nevertheless, every true Christian ought to apply God's law to every area of life including family, church, and state - and this should yield something far less tyrannical than the kind of civil government we see operating in most western nations today.

Kevin Swanson interviews the Editor of Faith for All of Life Magazine, Christopher Ortiz on the true nature of the kingdom. Does it include politics? Is it primarily the church or is rooted in the family? Today's Generations broadcast addresses the more fundamental issues, and every Christian should be well equipped with the answers.

Part of a biblical vision for the household includes this vital area of hospitality. How do we train our sons and daughters to effectively serve others and love the traveler, the stranger, the brother, and the occasional angel? As we rebuild relationships in family and church (in a lost and lonely world), hospitality will play a vital role in this transformation. Two homeschool dads, Mike Cheney and Steve Vaughan join the Generations program for part 2 of a discussion on this important area of family ministry.

Part of a biblical vision for the household includes this vital area of hospitality. How do we train our sons and daughters to effectively serve others and love the traveler, the stranger, the brother, and the occasional angel? As we rebuild relationships in family and church (in a lost and lonely world), hospitality will play a vital role in this transformation. Two homeschool dads, Mike Cheney and Steve Vaughan join the Generations program for a discussion on this important area of family ministry.

Where will your children and grandchildren be in 50 years, or 100 years from now? Without a vision, families and civilizations perish. But visionary people make an impact on what happens hundreds of years from now! The power of vision to impact civilizations begins with families who get a vision for something better than what they have here and now.

Listen in to this conversation with two of the most visionary dads in America - Scott Brown and Doug Phillips from Vision Forum.

In this interview with Scott Brown and Doug Phillips from Vision Forum, this Generations broadcast addresses the hot-button issue of elections. Should we vote out fear or faith? A critical edition for anybody planning to vote for president of the United States in the 2008 elections.

Police in Oregon are just fine with 1,000 bike riders streaking through town in the buff. But when a Christian tries to preach the Gospel on Halloween night on a street in Salem, Massachusetts, the police throw the book at him, charging him with. . . What was it? . . . Disturbing the peace and affluence?

As the moral compass spins out of control, the Vatican steps in, issuing a new list of seven deadly sins, which smacks a little of liberation theology. Kevin Swanson takes a look at it from the ethical perspective of a biblical worldview. Should we allow environmentally-conscious naked bike riders in Eugene, Oregon to determine the politically incorrect sins of the day, or shall we refer back to the laws of the Creator Himself? We end the program with a true assessment of the most evil things that are happening in our world today, as judged by the Creator Himself.

Are we witnessing an increase in the incidence of attacks on homeschool freedoms and parental choice in America? Judicial and legislative motions to regulate home education are cropping up from DC to Tennessee and from Nebraska to California. Kevin Swanson interviews preeminent education researcher, Dr. Brian Ray on these marked trends. Despite the expansion of homeschool freedoms over the last 20 years, a rising and vocal opposition is forming. Find out what you can do about it in this segment of Generations.

"When I became a man, I put away childish things," says the Apostle Paul. Some say that children are growing up too fast. We're saying that they aren't growing up fast enough. They may be learning perversions earlier in life, but they certainly are not learning maturity.

This leads to a discussion on games and sports. What part should sports play in the life of a young boy vs. a grown man? And what can we say about a family that will skip church for a soccer game? How do our choices in life communicate our priorities?

If the driving ethic behind political action is pragmatism, can anything reverse the slide into Gomorrah? From the conservativism of Ronald Reagan to the big-government socialism of Bush to the McCain/Pat Robertson/Guliani vision for America, where do we go next? The old conservative movement is fading quickly. The old "just vote for Hitler because he's better than Stalin," conservatives are disappearing and losing influence quickly in national politics.

But there is a new breed of men and women of principle rising to displace the old guard. The long term effect of this new movement promises a much more significant impact than previous. The worldview foundations are stronger, convictions are steeled, and they are ready for action. In this segment of Generations, Kevin Swanson interviews Steve Curtis, president of American Right to Life, a new national organization committed to a principled stand on the life issue.

If a candidate for political office were to take a position in favor of infanticide or even killing 6,000,000 Jews, would it be appropriate for a pastor to encourage his parishioners not to support such a fellow? What if it meant the forfeiture of a 501(c)3 certification by the Internal Revenue Service?

Kevin Swanson takes a look at what the lawyers say about pastoral involvement in politics, and then, for what its worth, brings in what God thinks about it. While it is possible for the church to exceed its authority in relation to the state, this is hardly the case with most churches today. Without pastoral leadership and teaching on politics, we will see a loss of freedom for Christians in America.

A California appeals court remands two homeschooled children back into the public schools. The ruling is reminiscent of the German court’s recent persecution of the Busekros family and other Christians who reject a godless education for their children in that nation.

Kevin Swanson points out the vast worldview differences between the statists and homeschoolers. He challenges parents to do just the opposite of what the California courts have ruled. School violence and homosexual indoctrination are just a few reasons why Christians have no business sending their children to these schools for a paideia training.

Nowhere does the battle of ideas rage more fiercely than in the area of education. Powerful interest struggle to maintain a monopoly on educational choices in K-12 education and in university education.

Here Kevin Swanson interviews Steve Ong, president of Chambers College, for his take on a distinctively Christian education and the forces that are working to dismantle it in Colorado.

Kevin Swanson reviews a recent commercial that epitomizes the "other worldview." The gist of it - avoid the hassle of children, use a condom. Then he interacts with a remarkably honest article from Online Reason Magazine on why people don't have children. They don't like them.

So why don't people like children? Why are children such a huge hassle that kills "quality of life," in the headlong pursuit of personal peace and affluence?

Kevin and Dave, both fathers of five children themselves, try to explain why the average square footage of homes is twice what it was in 1900 while the birth rate was cut in half. Then, they explain why they think children are a blessing - maybe even a greater than blessing that dry wall even.

With the last generation, the Catholics lost a full 1/3 of their adherents, and the Protestants didn't do much better.  That according to a major study conducted on religion in America just released. 

Generational continuity of the faith is dissipating quickly in Europe and America.  In this issue of the Generations broadcast, Kevin Swanson grapples with why the Deuteronomy 6:7 vision is abhorrent to Catholics and unpopular among Protestants.

Generational continuity does not happen much anymore.   Presbyterians think they can throw a little water on the heads of their kids and toss them into public schools for a humanist indoctrination.  Then you have Baptist parents who shoot for a one-time emotional conversion experience from their children, sans 30,000 hours of Deuteronomy 6:7 discipleship.   How do children get saved?  The superficial, just-add-water-and-microwave-it-for-30-minutes form of evangelism doesn't work.

After the coldest winter in decades (maybe even a century), the guys from the Generations broadcast grapple with whether it's time to change Chicken Little's placard from "Global Warming" to "Global Kooling." We are not sure we're keeping up with the en vogue issue-of-the-day. Would somebody please just tell us when we're supposed to get hysterical and give us a reason while you're at it? Kevin Swanson grapples with the psychological reasoning behind these false-problems and fake-solutions that seem to mark progressive big-government socialism.

Then, in response to a listener's question, Kevin explains the differences between the modern socialist worldview that dominates most western countries, the libertarianism of the likes of Ayn Rand, and a biblical approach that balances the one and the many by the law of the One and the Many.

Gas prices are on the rise, and the median individual income is on the decline in America. That means the average fellow is making less money (adjusted for inflation) than he was in 1969. If you adjust for tax increases, he's making far less than he was in 1969. In order to maintain the standard of living, families responded by sending wives to work and taking on more household debt.

Kevin Swanson addresses the cause of this economic down turn from a biblical perspective. He interacts with the Marxist "solution" of class envy, redistribution of the wealth, and the graduated income tax. Then, he suggests the biblical solutions.

On the eternal search for wholesome music that presents the noble themes of honor of parents, love of children, and family relationships, Kevin Swanson collects a few examples from the 1950s, 1980s, and 1990s. He caps the program with an interview with a terrific musician of the present decade - Nathan Clark George. Featuring a few of Nathan's beautiful ballads, this program will warm the cockles of your soul.

An AP story correlates the breakdown of marriage in America and the rise of the career woman. A great deal of the blame for the breakdown of the family in America must be placed at the feet of corporations and businesses. For families caught in this corporate family-fragmenting culture, where the wives must work in the corporate market, Kevin Swanson issues warnings and provides some valuable pointers. He also discusses how private companies and ministries that hire employees can protect the integrity of the family in their business practices. A critical program for the salvaging of the family in the 21st century.

>What if you woke up and found yourself in a tyranny that was 10 times the size of the Roman Empire in its purview and tax rates? What if you saw freedoms slipping, the family dying, and the tyranny of government funding immorality? What if 99% of the people around you were entirely unconcerned about it? What would you do?

Kevin Swanson looks at the last 100 years of social and political trends in America, and describes this rising tyranny. Then, he begins to chart a course for the future that returns hope for our future generations of children and grandchildren.

How do you get a God-blessed nation like this one? Your average Christian revival or impacting movement of any sort lasts about 10 years before it fizzles, and its effects are only measurable by an electron microscope. But what if you want to impact a culture for 300 years? What if you wanted to create a nation like America, where would you begin? Kevin Swanson explores the root structure of a gigantic oak tree called America on this program - and puts a stethoscope to the heart of the Pilgrims that founded this nation. These are the progenitors of 40 million people and a vision that formed a nation. Listen to this program only if you feel that you have been blessed living in a country like this one, and would like God to bless America again.

Whether the next president of the United States is Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or the other socialist, it should be pretty clear to anybody with a biblical worldview that this nation is headed in the wrong direction.

So what happens to a nation that has lost its moorings, lost its founding principles, lost its family integrity, lost its morality, and lost its freedoms? What will happen to America? Here Kevin Swanson, author of the just-released, "Second Mayflower," grapples with the future of a nation that forgot God. Kevin presents three possible scenarios for the future of the nation, but challenges the listening audience to get on board The Second Mayflower. Although we may be facing dark days ahead, this program will give you reasons for hope.

Over 150 years, modernism and post-modernism have produced a cold, institutionalized world that fragmented relationships, and families with shallow or dysfunctional relationships. The baby boom especially produced a generation where fathers simply would not, could not, and did not cultivate warm relationships with their children.

To this generation, comes a concept from Greg Vaughan that is taking the nation by storm. Thousands of dads everywhere are learning to write meaningful, thoughtful, visionary, personal, and heart-filled letters to their daughters, son, wives, and parents. This little gesture is opening up hearts for the first time in generations! Dads especially, we dare you to listen to this program. Here's a little idea that may open up some relationships that have grown cold in your life.

Humanism has virtually killed the Christian faith in Europe, but a faithful remnant made it back into the war of the worldviews over the last two generations. Our backs are against the wall, but we are fighting back and gaining ground! But how did we get here?

Kevin Swanson walks through the ten most impacting books written by Christians in the last 100 years, that represent a return to Christian thought in the war of the worldviews.

The purpose of this program is to give some honor to men who went before us in the 1900s. These are the thinkers that gave returned the ideas of worldview, antithesis, and distinctive Christian thought while humanism was eroding the foundations, destroying the family in America, and fragmenting our culture.

Olympics 08 is slated for the People's Republic of China, and you need to sign that form promising you won't criticize the government, because there really is nothing to criticize you understand!

Kevin Swanson challenges the notion that China is any less free than it was under Mao or the regime that brought about the Tienneman Square Massacre. Should we honor a nation that has yet to repent for the largest Democide in the history of the world. . . a nation that continues it's forced abortion and sterilization programs, not to mention Christian persecutions? Kevin Swanson suggests a boycott of the Olympics and support for Voice of the Martyrs China Bible program.

Kevin Swanson takes a biblical worldview perspective to the issue of "racial" distinctions and the "Bell Curve." Are blacks and Hispanics really less intelligent than whites on IQ tests?

This leads to a discussion on multi-racial marriages, and the biblical support for it. God's law allows for maximum unity and maximum diversity in human community, and skin color is not much of a consideration. Nevertheless, there are compatibility issues. What happens when the man and woman hold to sharply different religious and political differences?

Just about every father of a daughter is going to hear those words some day. Kevin Swanson speaks to Henry Reyenga, pastor and home school father of five, on his daughter's recent courtship. Are the fathers of the brides setting their expectations too high for the prospective suitors? How does one properly evaluate the young man, and how much involvement is too much involvement?

With the growing interest in proper courtship to produce stronger marriages among many families, we have seen a number of pitfalls and failures in process. These are discussed on this edition of the Generations broadcast.

By the 1950s, any semblance of a biblical world and life view had well nigh disappeared from modern education and life. But deep in the wilderness of the modern world, several pioneering families broke free from the public schools to lay the foundations for the modern home schooling movement.

What kind of pioneering spirit, what kind of vision would it take to make a decision to home school in the face of persecuting truant officers and against the entire cultural milieu of the day?

Kevin Swanson interviews homeschooling father and grandfather, Arnold Pent on those early days of the modern home schooling movement. He is author of the book, "Ten Peas in a Pod," a book that tells this amazing story of a family who home schooled their ten children, while traveling around America in the 1950s

The catalyst to any form of social revival has got to be leadership. But biblical leadership does not begin with a cadre of prima donnas who become the latest crop of social planners to staff the layers of state bureaucracies. Biblical leadership begins with fathers in the home. But it doesn't stop there. If you can get a few fathers who rule their households well, having believing children, then you'll begin to see leaders emerge who can rule in the household of God.

For lack of leadership the people perish. How do we cultivate these leaders? Get a vision for godly leadership from this discussion with Henry Reyenga, pastor of Family of Faith Church and Director of Christian Leaders Institute.

Tuesday marked the official end of conservatism, with only radical big government socialists at the front of the pack in the presidential race. George Barna's recent study found that born again Christians are voting Democrat this year. The winds have left the sails of the conservative movement. So why did conservatism die? Was it all George W. Bush's fault, or were there more fundamental problems with the country? With this edition of the Generations broadcast, Kevin Swanson presents an agenda for winning and it has to do with the way we view losing!

Kevin Swanson interviews David Feddes concerning the substance of his doctoral dissertation on the plight of Christian culture in the west. We explore the reasons for its sharp decline since the 1960s. . . no make that the 1760s. Was it the radical agenda borne by the educational establishment, or the compromise of the seminaries and the churches? How did we get to where we are today, and where do we go from here?

Here Kevin Swanson reviews one of the most shocking exposes anybody will ever watch in their lives. Pandora's Box Office is a new DVD release produced by Eric Holmberg that illustrates the incredible power of Hollywood to take a nation from the bathroom to the toilet, into the sewer system. Again, and again, in a relentless series of vignettes, Eric Holmberg takes you on a journey through Hollywood's productions. Over 40 years, sexuality on the movie screen moves from married people in separate beds to rape scenes enacted and homosexuality and aberrant forms celebrated on screen. Where will the future lead with these things? Reality murder shows for millions to watch?

Kevin Swanson interviews Eric Holmberg on the sinister role of movies in taking a culture to Gomorrah, the critical importance of biblical discernment, and the future of a nation that forgot God.

Admittedly, we spend a great deal of time complaining about the massive growth in government, the public endorsement of homosexuality and abortion, the dissolution of the family and family freedoms, the rise in medical tyranny, and other onerous developments in our time.

Millions of people enjoy the group therapy they get from the griping of conservative talk show hosts every day. But here's a plan to DO something about it. Kevin Swanson shows how a very small minority of families that will actually DO something could govern a state like Colorado.

Humanist cultures that tout their population implosions make way for those worldviews like Islam that are having children, lots of them! Nevertheless, this anti-baby climate is strong in the West. Just ask any parent with more than three children who walks through a grocery store and gets the question - 'Are all those yours?'

Meanwhile an Australian university professors suggesting a $900 per year carbon tax for any family who has more than 2 children. An English woman recommends sterilization to 'save the planet.'

Kevin Swanson reviews the roots of these ideas in the teachings of one Rev. Thomas Malthus - another monster in the list of intellectuals that ruined the west. Here was a man who introduced the idea of the scarcity of resources.

Kevin argues that what we are up against is not a scarcity of resources. God is far more generous than these humanist pessimists think He is. Rather, we face a scarcity of faith, love, and character. Get ready to redefine economics, by means of a worldview paradigm shift!

Kevin Swanson uncovers a front page Rocky Mountain News article from 1859, entitled 'A World Without the Sabbath.' (The Rocky Mountain News is still Colorado's most popular newspaper.) For a moment, the author of this front page article envisions the horrible nightmare of a world without the Sabbath. 'What would it do to the family? What would it to the nation?'

This spawns a discussion on the Christian Sabbath and the part that it has played in Christian culture for 2,000 years. Should it be celebrated on the 1st day of the week, or the some other day? Kevin Swanson also touches on the exceptions allowed by Christ for the deeds of necessity and mercy.

The ultimate form of communication has been developed to maintain the breathtaking shallowness of modern relationships - Instant Messaging, and to a lesser extent, E-mail.

Many children, even Christian homeschooling children spend hours with their Instant Messaging. Electronic communication has a function as a useful tool. But more often than not, our computer-literate children are losing the ability to focus, to relate effectively and relationally, and to make efficient use of time.

A well-warranted signal of caution is provided on this program for any parent who cares about his children's paideia-raising.

Back in 1958, Nat King Cole was out on the beach watching girls in their bikinis and Roger Miller was singing 'Dang me.' Now, we're having a hard time finding a top 40 album without a penchant for the 'F' word, or songs about masturbation, drugs, aimless killing, and rape.

So what does the righteous do? How about turn off the radio, chuck your TV over the back fence into a dumpster, and burn all your CD's?

Simplistic solutions have their place. But biblical discernment is always a better way to go. While avoiding falling into the traps of a simplistic moralism, Kevin Swanson analyzes music content and form. He presents various ways to handle perversion in art forms, and gives some practical ways to review the music that makes it into your home.

Christian bashing is increasingly popular today. It's so much easier that Jew bashing or even African American bashing, and you can usually get away with it in the public forum!

Case in point was the ESPN commentator who used the F-word in conjunction with Jesus.

Dr. Gary Cass from the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission comments on this rise in Christian bashing, which happens to be the title of his recent book. So what to do about it? That's the point of the program.

Most of the press coverage on homeschooling has been positive for decades. Now, is the tide turning? Recent pieces of the NYT and AP Newswire have put homeschooling in an unfavorable light.

Kevin Swanson speaks with the world-renowned researcher on home education, Dr. Brian Ray concerning homeschooling's public image. What contributes to it and what detracts from it?

What happens when a mother comes home and tells her son, "I just killed your sister. But I think I still love you?" More than half of abortions come in families that already have at least one child. The bonds of love are pretty loose and the respect for life is in shambles. What happens to millions of children from these families, when they grow up? What happens when millions of elderly people become a financial liability in a culture that knows what to do when you have a choice between a boat and a baby?

While late term abortions have decreased due to the social stigma of abortion, the early term abortions, the use of Plan B Pills and abortifacient birth control pills are on the rise. There isn't a one of us who don't need to recover a respect for life and a love for children.

Kevin Swanson acknowledges the presence of conspiracies on this edition of Generations and answers the question whether it is helpful to educate people concerning conspiracies. How important is it for people to know that, "George Bush is part of the CFR, which happens to be an evil conspiracy that believes in centralizing power into a one world government or a new world order?"

The Bible confirms the presence of conspiracies and gives us a balanced way of dealing with them. These conspiracies can be dangerous, powerful, and they are typically secretive. But how do Christians view conspiracies and more importantly, how are they unraveled?

What happens when a group of people capture the concept of discipleship, and abandon the shallow, ineffective faith of revivalism? What happens when the discipleship lifestyle begins forming in the home? The spontaneous growth of the Christian faith, reproducing like crazy and spreading throughout the country! And this is happening across America in the form of the family discipleship movement.

Listen to this exciting discussion between Henry Reyenga and Kevin Swanson, as they outline an exciting new growth of faith in America!

The nanny state is still on the march. The 2007 Energy Bill with all of its draconian controls on manufacturing and the banning of the incandescent light bulb aside, the state is sure to get more dangerous and more restrictive practically everywhere. Can we count on Republican-led Houses or Senates to stop the rush towards tyranny?

Kevin Swanson points out that homeschoolers were the only citizens interested in stopping the bills calling for more a rigorous compulsory attendance law over the last two years in Colorado. So why are these the only families who care to oppose a rising tyranny.

And what about the rise of medical tyranny? What does it take to oppose the rise of tyranny? What sort of person would oppose it?

A small rural school in Oregon chucks a senior class motto because it had some similarities to a Bible verse. Contrast this with Christian speech/debate competitions that forbid references to the Bible. Kevin Swanson critiques the rejection of the Bible in favor of a man-centered epistemology. He traces the roots of this disintegration of a biblical worldview to Thomas Aquinas and the separation of reason and faith.

Should you mention God in the public forum? In debates? In court trials? Kevin refers to the Apostle Paul, John the Baptist and others in this regard.

If all knowledge must be rooted in the fear of God, then even proving the existence of God must begin with the fear of God, at which point, do you really need to prove the existence of God?

Teen pregnancy is on the rise and half of America's 20 year olds say marriage is unnecessary.

Yet, there are couples in America who are reviving the old concepts of purity, honor for mothers and fathers, courtship, and covenant vows.

Kevin Swanson contrasts these two worldviews on this program, pointing out that one of these worldviews will destroy itself, while the other will build beautiful homes for future generations.

The New York Times issues an article suggesting that homeschoolers may not be adequately monitored by government agencies, based upon the number of murders committed by homeschooling moms. Then, Kevin Swanson contrasts this with the percentage of public schooling moms who murder their children, and finds that the rate is 28 times higher there. In order to warrant the increased regulations the NY Times feels is necessary for homeschooling, we will just have to see a sharp increase in the murder rate among homeschooling moms.

Meanwhile Barack Obama gives a biblical basis for his liberal agenda in his tome, 'Audacity of Hope.' Kevin Swanson interacts with his disposal of Old Testament law as irrelevant.

Does God have a right to call one of His OT laws irrelevant, do seminary professors at Dallas Theological Seminary have a right to call a law irrelevant, or does Barack Obama have the right to call a law irrelevant?

An 11-year-old homeschooled boy in Garfield County sustains bruises while horsing around with his siblings. So what happens when a father decides not to use ambulance services and expensive medical facilities to treat his son's bruises? A SWAT team raids the house and takes the young lad by force for examinations.

Kevin Swanson reviews the details on the case and interviews father, Tom Shiflett concerning the events of January 5th, 2008.

The Duggar Family story has truly become an international phenomena. A family that loves children! Lots of them! Considered one of CNN's top human interest stories in the year 2007, and a highly rated documentary airing on the Discovery Channel, this family has become an international phenomena.

Kevin Swanson interviews this gentle Christian, homeschooling family from Arkansas to get the story behind the story.

What makes this family such a contrast to the dried-up, self-centered, existentialist life most people find themselves living? Find out on this edition of Generations.

Polygamy is an accepted practice among some homeschooling groups. Some 'patriot groups' refuse to get a driver's license. And Hunter S. Thompson didn't commit suicide. He was murdered. To some, practically everything is a conspiracy.

Homeschoolers, Conservatives and Christians can be suckers for cults, strange conspiracies, and just general weirdness.

Here Kevin Swanson examines several definitions of cults in light of historical orthodoxy.

While we should not be so naive to think that there aren't evil conspirators around. . . before enquiring into the truth of conspiracy theories, first it is good to test the basic worldview commitment of the theorists.

Do CO2 emissions really contribute to global warming, and why is this a bad thing? Predictions and causal relationships are slippery things. Exactly how many people did you say would die by the year 2100 because of global warming if I don't sell my SUV and buy a moped? Even some evangelicals are jumping on the Kyoto bandwagon, and the rest of us are sitting around wondering when we're supposed to join the rest of the lemmings.

An interview with E. Calvin Beisner from the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance clarifies some of the issues on this one.

Christians, above all people, have a reason to be concerned with the environment. But what these discussions boil down to are world view considerations. What is your theory of metaphysics and ethics, and what does worldview have to do with environmental science?

When moms by the millions pulled their children out of the public schools and began schooling them at home, we called it a homeschooling movement. But what about dad? Although the movement is still seen as a mother's project, many fathers are beginning to catch a vision as well. And when this happens, the movement really solidifies.

In this interview with Jim Bob Howard from Homeschooling Today Magazine, we explore the ways in which dads can get involved in the homeschool and begin to supply the much-needed vision in homes across America.

The 'age of adolescence' comes in a play-oriented, characterless, peer-driven, self-oriented age, and it drives an incipient immaturity in our youth.

The problem of ever-extending immaturity is solidified in families raising children without a vision. Here, Dr. S.M. Davis casts a vision for a 12 year old. Where should your child be by the time he has reached his 12th birthday?

One of the first hardline socialists who spent his life striving for a Marxist economic equality, is perhaps better known as the author of the Pledge of Allegiance (Francis Bellamy).

In this segment of Generations, we interact with a Christian father who experience a little heartburn when he found out his child was required to say the Pledge of Alleigance at a private Christian school.

The pledge is a relatively new phenomena in the modern statist nations. Christian parents are still wondering whether such pledges are appropriate expressions of patriotism.

Host, Kevin Swanson presents a biblical view of patriotism and allegiance to the state from Romans 13 and Matthew 21. He encourages the listening audience to think critically about the things they do, including 'saying the pledge.'

What's a talk show host to do for a presidential candidate? When he has a choice of endorsing pro-socialist candidate A, pro-socialist candidate B or pro-homosexual, anti-socialist candidate C?

Ron Paul refuses to call homosexuality a sin on a recent interview with John Lofton, and we keep thinking about why God shut down Sodom. Was it over their immigration policy... or their tax policy... or was it their homosexual porneia policy?

Kevin Swanson gives a simple answer to the above question. What can the righteous do?

Has love died the death of a thousand qualifications? Have our hugs become too artificial, and the flowers to felicitous? If anybody's going to love, they're going to love by keeping the commandments of God. This is why some of those who see themselves as the world's best lovers, are some of the most evil men who ever lived - Jean Jacques Rousseau comes to mind.

Since 2008 will be the year you renewed relationships in a lost and lonely post-modern age, Kevin Swanson addresses some of the relationship blocks that prevent relational living. These include the traps of narcissism, pride, and anger.

Of all of the things we do in life, nothing is more important than worshiping God. An entire book of the Bible is dedicated to teaching us how to worship God. Yet, unfortunately that book is largely ignored. Worship is emotional, yet much of worship today is emotion badly expressed.

Kevin Swanson appeals to the book of Psalms as a source book for the proper worship of God. It takes us by the hand and shows us how to express worship with proper emotional texture, in a God-honoring way.

Believe it or not, this program is even more important than our discussion on Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee, and Alan Keyes.

Major media sources in England are suggesting that America is poised for a depression that would make 1929 look like a "walk in the park." The real estate crisis is the worst in at least 30 years, so far, and the foreclosure rate is still on the upswing. Will the domino effect bring the banking industry down, not to mention manufacturing and telecommunications? The vulnerabilities of the markets lie in the hand of God. But if the righteous sees evil coming, he will prepare himself for it. Kevin Swanson lays out the essential basics in preparation for the next great depression. He also reviews some of the accounts of how people survived the Great Depression from 75 years ago.

If you just woke up and wanted to know what in the world happened in 2007 in politics, economics, religion, entertainment, etc., you'll want to hear this segment of Generations. It's the best in unfair and unbalanced reporting of the news (since all news is always unfair and unbalanced.)

Also, Kevin Swanson makes his predictions for 2008, and ends with the good news from 2007. The empires of men broke down, while the kingdom of God continued to spread into the hearts and lives of people everywhere.

So why is Britney Speares' mother working on a book on Christian parenting? With one daughter in rehab and the other pregnant, the world watches in amazement as another Christian family makes an impact.

The standard now is dysfunctionality. The expectation is teen rebellion. So why must teenage rebellion be the norm? It is treated that way by a significant proportion of families and churches, yet it doesn't have to be that way.

Kevin Swanson identifies the roots of the apostasy that creates the Britney Speares and Marilyn Mansons of the world.

As a general rule, it is easier to get women engaged in the family's spiritual life than the men. We live in a day of couch-potato fathers and men who refuse to actively lead their family in God's ways. So what does a mom do when she has a spiritual couch potato for a husband? How does she provide a strong godly environment in the home while still submitting to her husband?

A homeschool mom takes the helm of a South Carolina's public schools, leaving the Generations staff with an interesting question. Why did we want to save the public schools?

In this program, we issue an agenda for salvaging the public schools in this country. There are some good reasons for saving the public schools.

Favorite traditions with the Swanson household on a Christmas morning.

The 2008 presidential campaign heats up with endorsements flying around - the faithful seem to be gravitating towards Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, and Alan Keyes.

Kevin Swanson wonders out loud on this issue of the program. 'If President G.W. Bush has increased the purview of government more than any president since L.B.J., why would I want to support a candidate even softer on big government than G.W.B.?'

The last fifty years has produced a violent revolution in music form and culture, such that the generations are hardly able to sit in the same worship service together. Is this the way culture is supposed to develop - each generation rebelling against the previous generation?

Kevin Swanson interviews Dan Lucarini, author of the book, Why I left the Modern Contemporary Christian Music Movement. Does Rock & Roll belong in the worship service? What is the best music to convey a reverence and fear of God in His worship? These are the questions grappled with on this segment of Generations.

Sweden's armed forces agreed to emasculate the lion on its coat of arms after a group of women from the rapid reaction force lodged a complaint to the European Court of Justice. Oh what symbology contained therein!

The pattern of history is clear. When men fail to lead in home, church, and state, civilizations lose the will to survive.

But how do we move on from here? If no man will lead, women will. Kevin Swanson interacts with a question on women in civil leadership, from the perspective of a biblical worldview, and the example of Deborah.

Theories fly about on the homeschooled graduate that killed four people in Colorado shootings last week. Was it Bill Gothard and Homeschooling, or Marilyn Manson and Rock and Roll that influenced this young man? Kevin Swanson discusses the influence of nature and nurture in the heart and life of our children. Quoting from the shooter's on-line web entries, Kevin Swanson outlines the path that led to the shootings at New Life Church and YWAM.

The largest and most influential single voting block in America is no longer the elderly. It is single women, and they vote DEMOCRAT!

Gene Edward Veith points out that studies show that the chances of a child growing up to become a criminal plummet to almost zero if he is raised by two loving parents. One factor in the development of male homosexuality, according to Christian psychologists, is the absence of a father figure.

Kevin Swanson ties these social issues into the political, and points out how social reformation will only happen with the renewal of the family - and that has not even begun to happen yet in the mainstream of the country.

After four years of broadcasting across America and the world, the Generations Radio team explains the mission of the program, and contrasts the program with other radio ministries like Focus on the Family, the Bible Answer Man, and John MacArthur.

What is needed is a specifically biblical worldview, a biblical ethic applied to every area of life. But what is also needed is a return to relational living. Until the Christian church provides these things, it is doubtful it will do much to reverse the decline of faith, family, and freedom in the 21st century.

No other country has quite the heritage of this one, founded by men who self-consciously followed the Bible, and wanted to form it on a godly ethical base. From its legal codes to its education systems, America was rooted in a biblical law order.

In this interview with Dr. Peter Marshall, author of 'Light and the Glory,' we uncover the Christian heritage of this nation, explore the causes of its spiritual demise, and ask the question, 'Is there hope for America, today?'

The Golden Compass hit the American box office this week. The fantasy film - based on an atheist book trilogy raked in 75+ million dollars in its first week. These self-consciously, atheistic books probably represent the most remarkable cultural success for atheism in the modern world.

Will men like Phillip Pullman be able to climb out from under 1500 years of Christian faith in England? Will atheism completely capture western countries? These are the questions Kevin Swanson grapples with on this segment of Generations.

A lone gunman shot down 5 Christians at two separate Christian ministries in Colorado on Sunday. Kevin Swanson takes up the homeschool angle, with Matthew Murray and two of his victims being homeschooled.

With these sorts of incidents, churches in Colorado are considering the wisdom of including armed security guards on staff. What is the biblical and historical precedence for pastors packing on a Sunday morning?

For those who are not raising their daughters for the independent life of the vagabond in the big city, there is still the question of how to prepare daughters to be economically productive in the home. We don't want to reduce life to merely an economic equation as the materialist socialists do. Nevertheless, how do we bring our daughters up with the economic household vision of the Proverbs 31 woman? Mike Cheney and Steve Vaughan grope for the light switch on this one, as two fathers again seek God's will for their daughters.

This program may get an F in Political Correctness, but we do want to insist that killing furry animals can be a tremendous experience for dads and sons. On this segment of Generations, Mike Cheney and Steve Vaughan talk to the sort of bonding that can happen between a father and a son out in the wild on a Colorado hunting trip.