This abundance of youth resources – collected from around the world – is very encouraging in terms of the future.
In the US, now is a better time to be an atheist than ever. A serious candidate for the presidency has declared on national television that he does not believe in God. The percentage of declared atheists and religiously unaffiliated people in America has risen substantially in recent years. To lack or reject religion is becoming considerably more socially acceptable. That's why the non-religious, and avowed atheists in particular, need theistic allies to defend them, more than ever.
Children will experience enough obstacles in life; there's no reason to start them off with a sense of guilt, fear, and a lack of freedom to make their own choices.
That question is at the heart of a project begun by several members of New Covenant Community (NCC), a TCPC congregation in Normal,