Want your kids to follow Jesus? You’ve got to walk the walk

If you want to pass on faith, it needs to be actions, not just words

It’s not often that I pay attention to what Richard Dawkins says. But there is no doubt that my Christian formation took place against a backdrop of prominent New Atheists such as the evolutionary biologist himself and was, whether I like it or not, influenced by it. The early 2000s featured voices such as Dawkins who presented Christianity, and religious belief in general, as antiintellectual and backwards, but also harmful.