The Kirk Cameron Show

Seven college men accused of assaulting one incapacitated young woman. A Snapchat message allegedly inviting more guys into the room. And I keep asking one question: where were the good men?   Today I’m talking about the Cornell lawsuit, and the 1,000 pound elephant that the legal debate keeps walking past: the character of our men. We’ll look at Lot’s catastrophic failure in Genesis 19, Quasimodo...

My son James picked today's topic: why is marriage becoming so unattractive to young people? In 1993, over half of Americans ages 25 to 29 were married. Today it's just 29%. We dig into the money pressure of homes costing four times a family's income, hookup culture, cohabitation going from 1 in 100 couples to 3 out of 4, divorce scars, and a culture that keeps young men from ever growing up.   A...

What if God never gives you the life you've been praying for? The marriage, the money, the healing, the happy family. Would He still be good to you?   After 40 years of following Jesus, I've noticed something a lot of us Christians do without realizing it. We turn God into a delivery system, a kind of spiritual Amazon Prime. We follow Him, and He drops off the good life at our front door. But the...

Millie Bobby Brown just adopted her second child, and when I heard the news, I smiled. Adoption wasn't plan B for our family either. It was plan A. Chelsea was adopted, four of our six kids were adopted, and today I'm sharing what that journey taught me about the heart of God. From Moses in the basket to Joseph raising Jesus as his own, adoption runs all through the Bible. And if you belong to Chr...

Why are millions of Americans taking a diabetes drug when they don't have diabetes? James picked this one for today's Dangerous Conversation, and roughly 1 in 9 adults are now on Ozempic or another GLP-1 just to lose weight. We dig into what these drugs actually do, and what happens when people stop. Most of the weight comes right back. Great for the drug companies, not so great for you. I also sh...

Are you trying to impress everybody? Your looks, your success, your resume? That's exhausting, and it's the wrong audience. Samuel was impressed by tall, kingly Eliab, but God chose the overlooked shepherd boy David. God looks straight at the heart. When you learn what God values, it changes how you see yourself, your spouse, and your kids. And it frees you from chasing everybody else's applause....

Did the devil make you do it? Or was it your own heart? Spiritual warfare talk has been driving me a little crazy lately, so I've got a hot take. If Jesus crushed the serpent's head and holds ALL authority in heaven and on earth, how much does that leave for Satan? Christians sometimes talk like there's a demon behind every bush waiting to ruin date night. But Jesus said evil comes out of the huma...

Is it ever okay for a Christian to lie? If a Nazi officer knocks on your door asking about the family hiding in your house, what do you say? James picked this one after a Christian book club insisted every lie is a sin, no exceptions. We dig into Rahab, the Hebrew midwives, Michal helping David escape, and what the ninth commandment actually says. This isn't a license to deceive for your own gain....

Have you ever prayed with everything in you, believed without a doubt, and then watched the answer go the other way? I've walked alongside people whose faith fell apart in that exact moment, and I think it's because we've been handed a definition of faith the Bible never actually gave us. In this episode we go straight to Scripture. To Abraham. To Mary at the foot of the cross. To three young men...

Is AI actually making us smarter, or is it quietly making us dumber? That's the question I couldn't shake this week. We've handed our kids machines that answer every question instantly, and we call them smart for knowing how to use them. But if a computer remembers, calculates, writes, and thinks for you, what happens to your own mind? Are we outsourcing the very struggle God designed to grow wisd...

Is Kathryn Krick a real apostle of God, or is she deceiving millions? That's the question my son James dropped in my lap, and I could not look away. He pulled together her whole story, from chasing an acting career in Hollywood to the viral "deliverance" videos casting out demons in front of hundreds of millions of views, and we sat down to work through all of it together. Here's what I keep comin...

If Jesus already did everything necessary to save you, why bother trying to be good anymore? Why fight sin so hard? Why forgive the person who hurt you? Why do the right thing when nobody's watching? Here's the beautiful answer. We don't obey God so that he will save us. We obey him because he already has. In this devotional I open up Romans 6, the Heidelberg Catechism, and the difference between...

The Queen of country music is gone. Dolly Parton passed away at 80, and I couldn't let the week end without honoring her, because her life holds a lesson every artist and dreamer needs to hear. Most people know "I Will Always Love You" as a love song, but Dolly wrote it as a goodbye to the man who gave her one of her biggest breaks. When Elvis later came calling and his manager demanded half the p...

Something strange is happening in America. I'm actually starting to agree with Bill Maher. Communism gave the world bread lines, gulags, and the deaths of millions, and yet it's becoming attractive to young people all over again. Before we roll our eyes and say these kids just don't know history, I want to ask a better question: why are they still reaching for it? In this episode I dig into what y...

If I'm honest with you, I don't want to die. I love this life. My wife, my kids, my work, that first cup of coffee and the sound of my rooster in the backyard. And yet I know there's a day on God's calendar with my name on it. Death has been on my heart lately. Losing people close to me has a way of bringing it into focus, and it drove me back to my Bible with a hard question: how should a Christi...

When I heard that Hayden Panettiere died at just 36, it stopped me in my tracks. I grew up in that same world, and I watched too many of my own friends get crushed by it. Corey Haim. River Phoenix. Andrew Koenig, who played my best friend Boner on Growing Pains. Different people, different families, but the same devastating pattern. In this episode I want to talk about what I believe is really beh...

Is college still worth it? That question would've sounded crazy to my parents and grandparents, who were all educators. And back in 1970, a degree really was the golden ticket. But the world has changed. This week James and I sit down for another dangerous conversation about the numbers that stopped us both cold, the lie young people are being sold, and why so many of the most successful folks nev...

What kind of body will you have in heaven? Will you eat, feel gravity, break a bone, or just float around like Casper the Friendly Ghost? In this devotional I turn to 1 Corinthians 15, where Paul answers with an acorn. You bury a little seed and up comes an oak tree, and that's you and the body God has waiting for you. This one belongs to the dust, but what's coming is an upgrade you can never los...

The WNBA may have just walked into one of the most spectacular ideological traps I have ever seen. Caitlin Clark brings unprecedented attention to women's basketball, and somehow she becomes the center of a culture war over race, privilege, and identity. Then her teammate Sophie Cunningham says the obvious thing out loud, and two former male NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, announ...

Right now, cameras you've probably never noticed are tracking where you go, who you see, and when you leave the house. They're called Flock cameras, and the promise is a reasonable one: they help police catch criminals and find missing children. And they do, but there is a far bigger conversation hidden behind that promise. The trouble is that these cameras are not only watching the bad guys. They...

A celebrity welcomes her first baby at 50, another at 54, and the message is loud and clear: it's never too late, you can have it all. But the headlines rarely mention the IVF, donor eggs, and surrogacy behind those stories. Today I want to talk about God's design for family and why postponing it "until the timing is right" is one of the oldest lies our culture tells young people. Children aren't...

Taylor Swift just became the youngest person ever inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and honestly, it's a remarkable achievement. But it got me thinking about a warning from Jesus that ought to make all of us tremble: the difference between milestones and millstones. This isn't about pointing fingers at Taylor. It's about praying for her, and asking what God has entrusted to you...

What is respect, really? Something we deserve, something we can demand, or something we have to earn? James brought this one to the table, and it became one of my favorite talks we have had in a while. The old Hebrew unlocked it for me. Honor is something we are called to give every person because they bear God's image. Respect, the kind that means admiration for character, is earned. So how do yo...

I just took my kids to see Christopher Nolan's Odyssey in IMAX, and it might be one of the biggest movies of the year and one of the biggest storytelling blunders of his career. Nolan didn't tell Homer's story. He stripped out the magic, swapped the heroes, and turned a tale about love and honor into one about guilt and shame. So this week I break down what he got wrong, and why I actually believe...

Should Christians eat meat, or go back to the Garden of Eden? Food has become a religion. Eat carnivore, you're wrecking your arteries. Go vegan, you're wrecking your hormones. So this week I ask a better question: was Eden's plant-based menu God's permanent plan, or just the start of the story? I dig into Genesis, Jesus, and Paul to show why the real question was never plant or animal. To learn m...