Sports Parents. . . Kill The Coach and Scare The Kids. . . .
One of my most unnerving childhood memories has to do with Little League Baseball. I remember exactly where it took place and who was involved. . . .Alverthorpe Park. . . on the Triple-A field. My dad was our team’s coach.…
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Facebook Infographic. . . .
Here’s a great new infographic on Facebook from the folks at Mashable Infographics. . . .
Responding to Youth Culture Trends. . . Lessons From Sandy, Part 3. . . .
The perfect storm of youth culture trends I blogged about yesterday is here. We need to deal with it. So what now? A theologian once said that every Christian should start their day with the Bible in one hand and newspaper…
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Major Youth Culture Trends You Need To Know. . . Lessons From Sandy, Part 2. . .
If youth culture is the soup our kids swim in everyday, what are some of the ingredients that serve to shape the values, attitudes, and behaviors of our kids that warrant our response? If you were to stir up today’s…
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As Cultures Clash. . . . Lessons From Sandy, Part 1. . .
While we’ve fared fairly well here in Central Pennsylvania, the fury that history will remember as “Hurricane Sandy” did a real number on the East Coast. . . particularly along the shoreline. Our beloved “Jersey Shore” got hammered. The photos…
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The Evil In Me. . . .
The other day I saw a Facebook post that told me I need to “be true to yourself.” To be honest, that scares me to death. I’m stumped by our culture’s bent on believing that people are, at the core,…
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Cracked Takes On The Church. . . And We Should Like It. . .
“Laugh or Cry?” That’s what CPYU’s Derek Melleby put in the subject line of his email to me this morning. The email contained a link. As I clicked on that link, I knew I was about to see something interesting.…
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The Fantasy Slut League. . . Will Boys be Boys? . . .
I’m not sure if I should feel happiness or dismay that my youth pastor friend, Dave Showalter, passed on this breaking news story to me this morning. It was a simple link to this headline from the WJLA website: ‘Fantasy…
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Dear Senior Pastor. . .
Yesterday I was snooping around on our website and came across something I had written five years ago that I thought might be interesting to revisit today. It’s a letter I wrote. . . not to any one person in…
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Snowblowing, Age-Compression, and The Future of Teen Sexuality. . . .
Forty years ago, youth culture trends tended to travel geographically. As an east-coaster, all a guy like me would have to do is look at what was happening on the left side of our country. That “crystal-ball” glimpse would offer…
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Texas Football, Cheerleaders, and Bible Verses. . .
They say that everything’s bigger in Texas. That’s certainly the case with high school football. Last month I spoke in Allen, a suburb of Dallas. On my way to the church we took a detour to the community’s brand new…
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Youth Workers, Aloneness, and a Grand Experiment. . . .
Last weekend, a perfect storm converged in my life that was quite telling. It all began with an ending. . . . the ending of my slow and deliberate journey through Sherry Turkle’s fascinating, timely, and thought-provoking book Alone Together:…
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