About / Champ Thornton

Champ Thornton

Champ Thornton (Ph.D.) is an acquisitions editor at Crossway. He and his wife, Robben, live in Newark, Delaware, have been married since 1996, and enjoy being parents to three energetic teenage children. He’s the author of numbers of books for kids and families, including The Radical Book for Kids, The Serpent Slayer and the Scroll of Riddles, and Why Do We Say Thank You? Learning to Be Grateful. You can learn more about Champ at www.champthornton.com.

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Champ Thornton

gender

How to talk to young children about the good gift of gender

An interview about "God Made Boys and Girls"

Only a short time ago, it would have been unthinkable that young children would...

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How to teach our kids faithfulness in today’s culture

Psalm 78 and the call to remember

“Lord, please protect my children.” From the earliest days of parenting, Christian moms and...

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body image

How to help children have a healthy body image

An interview with Justin and Lindsey Holcomb

“Every single day, I sit in my counseling office with kids of all shapes...

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teenager

3 ways to help teenagers bring relationships into focus

How the lenses of creation, fall, and redemption guide our decision-making

In the year 1610, Galileo had a problem. On the one hand, he had...

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Bible storybooks

10 Bible storybooks for your family

As a dad to three children now between the ages of 16 and 12,...

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Easter

Helping families embrace the truth of Easter

An interview with Marty Machowski about “Darkest Night, Brightest Day”

Since his publication of The Gospel Story Bible in 2011, Marty Machowski has written...

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cohabitation

Why cohabitation isn’t good preparation for marriage

It was 1996. I was 23 years old, and nothing could’ve prepared me for...

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How to help children grasp what Advent means

A family devotional for the season

The word advent means arrival. For kids it may mean the never-ending weeks before...

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What Isaiah’s prophecies can teach our children this Advent season

If you’ve had kids and know how they make all sorts of requests, then...

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