You don't have to know every answer.
You just have to stay in the conversation.
If you're here, something has probably changed.
Maybe your teen has grown quieter about faith. Maybe the questions come more often, or the conversations come less often. Maybe you're not sure what to say when the questions do come.
For many parents, faith is one of the most important things in their lives. Watching a son or daughter step back from it carries real pain — and often a quiet sense of having failed.
“Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.”
That verse shapes everything here. Be ready to give a reason — and give it gently. Not with pressure, not with argument, and not with a script. Every resource on this site is built to help you do both halves of that well.
Practical help, offered gently
Evidence, Not Opinion
Teens rarely accept an answer simply because an adult gave it. These resources look at historical and manuscript evidence so your teen can examine the claims for themselves.
Relationship First
The relationship matters more than whether you can answer the next question. “That's a good question — what if we investigated it together?” is often the best response available to you.
No Guilt Trips
Nothing here is designed to raise the emotional temperature or assign blame. The aim is to lower it — so you can think clearly about how to help.
Who these resources are for
Parents and grandparents, mentors, youth leaders, pastors, and Christian school teachers — anyone walking alongside a teenager who is asking honest questions about faith. A parent never stops caring about their child's faith, whatever their age.
“You don't have to know every answer. You just have to stay in the conversation.”
Douglas Schofield
A Classroom Education
Doug spent his career as a history teacher and school administrator, work that earned him teaching awards and a Master's degree in curriculum development. History is a discipline built on a single stubborn question — what does the evidence actually show? That question sits at the centre of everything he writes.
Service in the Church
Alongside his work in education, Doug served as President of the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada and as Board Chair at both Acadia Divinity College and Crandall University. Across those years he became increasingly concerned by a pattern churches everywhere were seeing: young people quietly stepping away from the faith they grew up in, and parents unsure how to respond.
Why He Writes
The resources on this site grew out of that concern. Some, like Probing Grace, were written for use in Christian schools and youth groups; others were written directly for parents. All of them share the same conviction: teenagers deserve honest answers, and their parents deserve practical help giving them.
The aim is never to hand a parent a script for winning an argument. It is to make sure that when a teenager asks a real question, there is something solid to look at together — and that the relationship survives the asking.
Schofield has mined the research very well and leaves us with an appetite to dig deeper. The reader will reflect on historical evidence that not only suggests the veracity of the biblical record but provides confidence in its trustworthiness.
There is a pathway. And you're not walking it alone.
Start with the free guide, or begin with the book. Either way, start where your family actually is.