This week on Family Policy Matters host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Adam Holz Director at Plugged In and co-author of Becoming a Screen-Savvy Family How to Navigate a Media-Saturated World--And Why We Should to discuss how parents can create healthy media habits for themselves and their children [... more]

Adam Holz and Paul Asay from Focus on the Family's Plugged In team equips you to guide your family to make healthy media choices They explain what the Bible says about entertainment and how to engage with and teach your kids discernment when it comes to what they are watching and playing It's a great conversation you won't want to miss Receive the book Becoming a Screen-Savvy Family and the audio download of the broadcast Becoming Screen Savvy As a Family for your donation of any amount Plus receive member-exclusive benefits when you make a recurring gift today Your monthly [... more]

I didn rsquo t notice him at first I rsquo d come down for breakfast at my hotel Everything in the dining room was clean The buffet table was filled The refrigerator was stocked the utensil container packed tight Everything was perfect Then I saw him An unassuming man refilled this wiped that He didn rsquo t draw attention to himself But the longer I sat the more I was amazed The man was working very fast noticing everything and refilling everything before anyone might need something As a food service veteran I noticed his constant attention to detail Everything [... more]

Disney has produced a cartoon that critics say is nothing more than critical race theory The cartoon calls for reparations Rep Barry Loudermilk Rep Scott Perry Adam Holz and Charles Thorngren join the conversation See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

ldquo ESCAPE rdquo the hot-tub store billboard blared It got my attention mdash and got me thinking My wife and I talk about getting a hot tub nbsp someday It'd be like a vacation in our back yard Except for the cleaning And the electric bill And suddenly the hoped-for escape starts to sound like something I might need escape from Still that word entices so effectively because it promises something we want relief Comfort Security Escape It rsquo s something our culture tempts and teases us with in myriad ways Now there's nothing wrong with resting or a getaway [... more]

ldquo I can rsquo t believe Christmas is over rdquo my dejected daughter said I know how she feels The aftermath of Christmas can feel dreary Presents have been opened The tree and lights must come down Listless January mdash and for many the need to shed holiday pounds mdash awaits Christmas mdash and the breathless anticipation that comes with it mdash suddenly feels eons away A few years ago as we were putting Christmas stuff away I realized No matter what the calendar says we rsquo re always one day closer to the next Christmas It rsquo s become [... more]

ldquo Daddy will you read to me rdquo my daughter asked It rsquo s not an unusual question for a child to make of a parent But my daughter is eleven now These days such requests are fewer than they were when she was younger ldquo Yes rdquo I said happily and she curled up next to me on the couch As I read to her from The Fellowship of the Ring she practically melted into me It was one of those glorious moments as a parent when we feel perhaps just an inkling of the perfect love our Father [... more]

In a TV commercial I saw recently a woman casually asks someone in a group watching TV ldquo What are you searching for Mark rdquo ldquo A version of myself that doesn rsquo t make decisions based on fear rdquo he responds soberly mdash not realizing that she was just asking what he liked to watch on TV nbsp Whoa I thought I wasn rsquo t expecting a TV commercial to hit me so profoundly But I related to poor Mark sometimes I too feel embarrassed by the way fear sometimes seems to direct my life nbsp Jesus rsquo disciples [... more]

As I watched a bumblebee land lightly on the Russian sage I marveled at its lush branches The bush exploded with color its brilliant blue blossoms attracting eyes and bees alike nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Yet only last fall I rsquo d wondered if it would ever blossom again When my wife rsquo s parents trimmed the periwinkle plant down to a stub I rsquo d assumed they rsquo d decided to get rid of it But now I was witnessing the radiant result of pruning that had seemed brutal to me nbsp The surprising beauty that results from [... more]

The praise song drifted downstairs at on a Saturday morning I didn rsquo t think anyone was awake but my youngest daughter rsquo s scratchy voice proved me wrong She was barely conscious but there was already a song on her lips My youngest is a singer In fact she can rsquo t not sing She sings when she wakes up When she goes to the school When she goes to bed She was born with a song in her heart mdash and most of the time her songs focus on Jesus She rsquo ll praise God anytime anywhere I [... more]

We were almost home when I noticed it the needle of our car rsquo s temperature gauge was rocketing up As we pulled in I killed the engine and hopped out Smoke wafted from the hood The engine sizzled like bacon I backed the car up a few feet to find a puddle beneath oil Instantly I knew The head gasket had just blown I groaned We rsquo d just sunk money into other expensive repairs Why can rsquo t things just work I grumbled bitterly Why can rsquo t things just stop breaking Can you relate Sometimes we avert [... more]