Signposts: How to Talk About Evil With Your Children

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Christianity Today, Russell Moore

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 914 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2016

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

As parents, some of the most difficult conversations we can have with children is about evil. It can often be challenging to know how to explain the reality of evil to children in a gospel-centered way. In this episode of Signposts I reflect on why it’s important to talk honestly to children about pain and death in the world, and to do this in a way that exalts Christ as the final answer to all evil in the world. Listen below, and use the links to subscribe to Signposts and get new episodes when they publish. The post Signposts: How to Talk About Evil With Your Children appeared first on Russell Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:23.2	How about a nice prawn curry?
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0:46.0	what the dishes too Connie? This Russell Moore and you're listening to signposts. Last night one of my sons slept in our room on the floor in a sleeping bag and it's because he couldn't go to sleep.
1:07.0	He had watched with his brothers, the movie The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas on Netflix because one of our older sons had read that book for
1:16.1	school and so they watched the movie together and of course if you're if you're
1:19.9	familiar at all with this film or with the book. It's built around the theme of the
1:26.4	Holocaust and my son was asking us, did this really happen?
1:33.5	And we said, yes, the Holocaust really happened.
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