Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies
Edited by Hillary Morgan Ferrer (Harvest House Publishers)
Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies addresses ideologies running rampant in cultural American thought: new spirituality, pluralism, self-helpism, feminism, Marxism, relativism, naturalism, skepticism, postmodernism and emotionalism.
As American culture becomes increasingly hostile to Christianity and a biblically based worldview, our children are caught in the middle of conflicting ideologies. Mama Bear Apologetics maintains: “We need to prepare our children so they aren’t left unprotected for the future. The greatest protection we can give our kids—to equip them to face the cultural lies head-on while remaining gracious, loving, and winsome” (p 17).
This collection of essays presents each ideology’s teaching and refutes each with biblical truth. Each essay’s author provides age-appropriate tips for teaching children (preschool to high-school aged) to identify anti-scriptural teaching and how to defend against it using the Bible.
Written in a quirky, engaging style, each chapter allows the contributors’ personalities to shine as they reinforce their points with real-life examples. Introducing a thought thread woven throughout the book, editor Hillary Morgan Ferrer reminisces about eating lots of beef as a Texas native, learning at an early age to chew the meat and spit out the gristle. She equates this “chew and spit” method to sifting through the messages our kids receive in search of biblical truth, and spitting out anything that contradicts the truth of the Bible.
The book provides plenty of Scripture interwoven with relevant daily life examples. Just for fun, look for the way that a soda dispenser relates to progressive Christianity. These types of tangible images throughout the chapters help Mama Bears to take the apologetics conversations with their kids anywhere, with a concrete image that cements the topic and truth in their minds.
As an additional resource, the authors include a useful list of books for further reading that correspond to each chapter topic. Inquisitive mamas want to know as much as possible to protect and prepare their children for the ideologies they will encounter even as early as kindergarten. Mama Bear Apologetics gives parents the foundational tools they need to begin educating their children early.
Erica Bengel, student
Dallas Theological Seminary
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