BLOG: How Much Exposure to Evil is Too Much?

For nearly two decades we parented under the shelter of home. Our children could glimpse the showering of evil outside, though they generally did so from behind a window.

Then the day came, however, when God asked us to brave the elements. He didn't rebuke us for the sheltering, but rather told us the quiet of those early years was precisely what He'd used to prepare them for what they were about to encounter.

So we opened the door and allowed them to step out into the storm. But they didn't go alone; they've gone under the shelter of our umbrella. As the rain falls, sometimes hard and other times in sprinkles, the co