Kirk Cameron Warns the World Is Discipling Your Kids and It’s Time for a Biblical Response
Actor and author Kirk Cameron says secularists have borrowed the Bible's blueprint to disciple today's children with secular values -- and that it's time for Christian parents to take it back and train up their children in truth. Cameron is the host of the new Brave Plus series Iggy and Mr. Kirk, which follows a curious iguana named Iggy as he embarks on adventures with Mr. Kirk and friends -- learning timeless values like honesty, bravery and kindness along the way. It has drawn comparisons to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
Cameron believes Iggy and Mr. Kirk and other children's shows like it can serve as a course correction in an entertainment world saturated with unbiblical content.
"There used to be shows on TV where people would pray as they went to sleep at night -- like Little House on the Prairie. There were even cartoons for kids. I remember Davey and Goliath, where they would talk about God. Mister Rogers was a Presbyterian minister in real life, and he encouraged kids with these kinds of values."
Today, such shows are rare, he said.
Cameron says people of faith bear some responsibility for the culture's drift toward secularization.
"We didn't stand up against the secularization. We've gotten away from church. We've gotten away from Bible reading in our own lives as parents. And we've neglected to teach those things to our children. And what's happened is the secularists have simply picked up our playbook, our Christian playbook in the Bible, and they began running the plays of discipling our children better than we are. And that's why it seems that our children are now walking away from the values that we want them to embrace."
The discipling, he said, is being carried out by people of influence -- teachers, movie stars and musicians -- who are "speaking into your kids' lives at school and on their headphones and on their screens when they're in your home, when they're walking down the road, when they lie down at night and when they rise up in the morning. This is Deuteronomy 6. This is the Shema."
"And what we need to do is take the playbook back and begin running the plays faithfully," Cameron said. "We need to, first of all, love God with our hearts and with all our soul and with all our strength. We need to take God's commands and hide them in our heart, to remember them as parents and value them, and then teach them to our children in the morning, when we wake up, when we lie down at night, and when we wake up in the middle of the night -- pray for our kids. And then we need to, as Moses said, tie them to our hands as signs and bind them to our foreheads and put them on the doorposts of our homes and write them on our gates. If we do that, we can see the culture change, and our children will be the impetus for that change, because they'll learn to value the things that God values."
Cameron sees hope for the future. He believes parents and grandparents are beginning to "right the ship."
"Parents and grandparents are wanting to go back to the values of faith and character that made this the greatest country in the world and promises a healthy future for our kids, so Iggy and Mr. Kirk and Brave Books, Brave Plus, and The Chosen and so many other programs are ways that you can address a dark culture and begin to shine light in it by helping your children be filled with light -- by talking about what's good and true and beautiful when they wake up, when they walk down the road, when they go to sleep at night and when they wake up again in the morning."
WATCH: Injured Bird | Iggy and Mr. Kirk | Season One, Episode One
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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
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Originally published March 31, 2025.
