Brett and Erin Kunkle
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Brett and Erin Kunkle guide you through Christian parenting in a secular culture, with wisdom and a bunch of practical help.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Brett and Aaron connect apologetics, biblical teaching and candid family experience through practical questions parents can carry into conversations at home.
Brett and Aaron make Christian parenting sound like a conversation at the kitchen table, complete with affectionate teasing, candid admissions and serious theological purpose.
Brett and Erin turn 'Jesus is a stick?' into your cue to ask one more question.
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A sobering Barna statistic frames a pointed discussion of how parents shape a child's biblical worldview.
The episode centers on a direct concern: whether children are being formed toward a biblical worldview. Its argument leans on research attributed to George Barna and the Barna Group, especially the contrast between an 83% likelihood when all seven cornerstones are embraced and a…
A Pennsylvania church Q&A, a fist-bump joke, and a grounded case for families serving together.
The MAVEN Parent Podcast frames marriage and family unity as something formed through shared service, not rescued by a dramatic getaway to Hawaii.
A practical planning conversation that puts family discipleship and Maven's youth-focused opportunities on the calendar.
Planning for 2024 turns into a grounded conversation about discipleship, family priorities, and the value of deciding early. The hosts urge Christian families to think ahead about their own formation, their children's discipleship, and Maven's events, treating intentionality as…
A pointed review of how respectable success goals can quietly redirect Christian parenting.
This episode studies a familiar pressure point in family life: parents can pursue grades, college admission, athletic achievement, health, and financial stability so intensely that those aims start to define the home.
A warm, uncomfortable case for letting real people speak into the blind spots Google cannot see.
The MAVEN Parent Podcast sits with an uneasy parenting question: whether parents can still be taught when correction feels personal. The hosts use humor to ease the tension, then press into the difference between asking Google for anonymous answers and receiving hard truth from…
A parent-focused Q&A about music, categories, and creativity.
This Q&A treats a simple question as a doorway into something larger: whether music is judged by labels or by what it says and does. It moves from a concern about secular songs into a wider look at creativity, image-bearing, and the choice of a name meant to avoid cheesy…
A careful case for parenting shaped by theology, reflection, and a clearer view of the human person.
This episode makes a steady case for parenting that goes beyond quick advice and toward a fuller account of the human person at home. It works best when it links theology to ordinary family life and shows why reflection, a biblical view of the mind, and a clearer anthropology…
Classic films, cultural memory, and family movie nights get a steady Christian defense.
Onalee McGraw treats classic films as more than nostalgia. She links the golden age of Hollywood, the motion picture production code, and the idea that film helps shape what a culture remembers and imagines.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
The MAVEN Parent Podcast episode "Parents, Are You Teachable?" frames teachability as a parenting issue that often shows up as defensiveness, pride, judgment, and a habit of asking Google before asking people.
The hosts start with some teasing about what really counts as a special interview.
Aaron and Brett start with some teasing.
The Maven Parent Podcast brings Christopher Yuan back to keep unpacking holy sexuality.
Eric recounts a real exchange with a young atheist and argues that the usual instinct to jump straight into defending Scripture can be the lazy response.
The hosts start with a joke and get to discouragement fast.
Brett and the host answer a listener question about whether secular music can be more God-glorifying than music labeled Christian.
Rebecca Zipp of A Humble Place joins The MAVEN Parent Podcast to talk about Advent, art study, and the quieter December rhythm she built for her family.
The MAVEN Parent Podcast episode “Teach Kids to Give at Christmas” centers on Philippians 2 and the line that Christ “did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.” The hosts use that passage to connect the incarnation, humility, and obedience “to the point of death” with Christmas gift-giving for children.
John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Center, uses a talk from the Maven, Texas conference at Frisco Bible Church to argue that the sexual revolution has changed how people think about bodies, sex, and human identity.
The MAVEN Parent Podcast responds to a YouTube comment saying children should not do chores “without pay” and that threatening punishment is “abuse.” The hosts answer with examples from a home with three kids, shared meals, dishes, pots, bathrooms, and Tupperware to argue that family work cannot be reduced to “my stuff” versus “your stuff.” Christian Smith’s 2005 study, Soul Searching, comes up as evidence that words like “obligation,” “accountability,” “responsibility,” and “duty” have largely dropped out of American teen culture.
The MAVEN Parent Podcast episode “Is Faith All In Your Head?
The MAVEN Parent Podcast uses George Barna’s 2023 research from the Barna Group, Family Research Council, and Arizona Christian University to argue that many Christian kids lack a biblical worldview.
The MAVEN Parent Podcast episode "3 Scriptures That Reveal The Relationship Between Faith And Knowledge" argues that faith is not anti-intellectual and should be understood as trust in what you have good reason to believe is true.
The hosts discuss Felicity Huffman’s claim that she had to break the law to give her daughter a future, then unpack the 2019 college-admissions scandal involving Rick Singer, 33 parents, and $15,000 to rig SAT scores.
Erin and the hosts wrap up the year by naming the lessons it left behind.
The MAVEN Parent Podcast lays out three 2024 resources: two adult conferences, a student conference, and immersive trips for teens and college students.
Brett and Erin Kunkle discuss how serving together as a family can strengthen marriages and bonds more effectively than emotional getaways, drawing on personal experience, historical analysis from Nancy Piercy, and biblical teachings like Philippians.
The MAVEN Parent Podcast spends this episode evaluating Billy Perry, also known as BillyVSCO, a Christian parent influencer with about 1.6 million Instagram followers and 12.8–12.9 million TikTok followers.
Erin recalls reheating her two-year-old son's uneaten dinner seven times until the plate was "mush."
Your brain says you are kidding me. Your face says, 'thanks for sharing. Tell me more about that.'
Katie Faust says to think about who is getting your emotional information, because emotional intimacy can quickly become sexual intimacy.
Christopher Yuan shares his journey from a life of drug dealing and homosexuality to finding faith in Christ, including his mother's conversion and his time in prison.
Brett and Erin Kunkle argue that relying solely on practical parenting advice often fails because parents lack deep theological and intellectual engagement.
The episode opens with an invitation to the Texas Maven conference before moving into chores and work ethic.
The show opens with a playful note, pointing out that Onalee McGraw is literally joining from her house.
Brett and his cohost pick up where an earlier warning left off: children start forming a worldview much earlier than most parents expect.
The hosts welcome philosopher Ross Inman and quickly set philosophy up as something that reaches into ordinary life.
The hosts open with a warm, teasing plea for listeners to leave a rating and review.
The MAVEN Parent Podcast takes up a blunt question: should parents force kids to go to church?