Finally! The Latest On Kids and Media. . . .
It was back in late 2004 when the Kaiser Family Foundation released their groundbreaking study Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-Olds. Since then, that research has served as the most extensive and helpful picture into how kids…
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Haitian Prayer. . . .
Did you watch any television coverage of what’s happening in Haiti over the weekend? I hope so. It is challenging. Yesterday, the TV coverage provided so many compelling pictures and stories that it’s hard to sort them all out. Two…
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Haiti 100. . . .
Last night I woke up a few times and had this thought: “I’m sleeping in my warm, soft bed. In Haiti, there are living people trapped under rubble who are wondering if they are going to be rescued. There are…
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Too Many Tears. . . .
Brokenness has plagued our world since our first parents indulged themselves in the garden. I have to believe the Scriptures when I’m told that there is nothing new under the sun. But over the course of the last several years,…
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Tic Returns! . . . .
The cone of silence has been lifted and I can finally say it! . . . Big news in the world of youth ministry today. . . . the Youth Specialties extreme makeover that became and remained the talk of…
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What Will You Sing Tonight? . . . .
I love talking to youth workers about kids. What I don’t like hearing are the seemingly endless stream of stories about churched kids. You know, the ones who have seen, heard, and done it all over and over and over…
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To Give or To Get? . . . .
The other day I was driving down the highway with the 24-hour Christmas station putting out a steady menu of nostalgic old favorites so familiar that I hum or sing-along without really paying attention. Every now and then a new…
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Deconstructing Tiger. . .
A few weeks have passed since the Tiger Woods we all knew was eclipsed in our collective consciousness by the Tiger Woods who is. I’m not a golf fan. I don’t watch it on TV. I find it boring. I…
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Pop Culture. . . A Sign Of Life. . .
Every now and then I find something positive in pop culture that’s worth passing along to our CPYU constituency. This morning I found one of those things while doing some writing for the upcoming January/February edition of Simply Youth Culture…
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Sara Groves. . . .
Last night my daughter Caitlin and I shared a wonderful evening out featuring a meal and a concert. Sara Groves and her ensemble were in town to play at the Hershey Free Church (thanks to Bob Sproul and his crew…
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Columbine Reality. . . .
Last week I finally got around to a book that’s been sitting on the pile for quite some time. I wanted to read Dave Cullen’s Columbine before the 10th anniversary year of the watershed school massacre came to an end.…
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The “Old Guy’s” Necessary Questions. . . .
Sometimes the passage of time brings the clarity that you were erroneously convinced you once had. Thinking, learning, listening, praying, and experiencing combine in a mix that makes the murky waters you once believed and defended as crystal clear, to…
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