Pray for Wes Evans. . . .
One of the first things Rich Van Pelt said to me last week when I saw him in Nashville was this – “Pray for Wes Evans.” I don’t know Wes, but I’m praying for him along with his father Jon,…
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The Greatest Reason to Give Thanks. . .
“And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of…
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Ted Haggard And The Youthworkers. . . .
This is a difficult blog to pen. . . difficult because I want to be very careful about what I say and how I say it. That also happens to be the stimulus for my thoughts today. . . the…
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Killing Us Softly. . . .
A short head’s up this morning about something new that’s a revision of something worth watching. Advertising critic Jean Kilbourne continues her four-decade look at the role advertising plays in shaping us, particularly our concept of women. The fourth edition…
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What Hollywood Does To Us. . . .
I got an email from our associate staffer Paul Robertson yesterday asking me about a song that popped onto his computer through his internet radio station. I hadn’t heard the song before but the lyrics from Angus and Julia Stone’s…
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Jesus Didn’t Come to Make Us Christian. . . .
The pile of books “to be read” in my office just keeps getting bigger and bigger. . . frustratingly big in fact! Every once in a while a new book darkens the doorway that I allow to jump to the…
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Well Said. . . So, What Do We Do Now? . . .
Kudos to NBC for running a series on The Today Show on the decline of civility. I missed this part of the series the other day, but Lisa gave me a heads-up and I found it online. It’s worth passing…
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That’s Us. . . On TV! . . . .
There were a couple of commercials that I saw this weekend. . . several times each. . . that caught my eye. They caught my eye because they are not only creative, but because they caught the rest of me…
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Old Made New. . . With A Great Message. . . .
Gary has been doing all he can these last couple of weeks to exercise the memory portion of my brain. He’s a college buddy who’s been spending time posting some pretty incredible music memories on his Facebook page. One of…
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Four Loko – Canned Cocaine?
On October 8th, nine 17 to 19-year-old Central Washington University Students attending the same party had to be hospitalized with blood-alcohol levels of 0.12 percent to 0.35 percent. When the story first broke, officials were puzzled, wondering if the students…
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You’ve Got To Be Kidding! . . . .
For years I’ve been relying on the world of advertising to help me explain youth culture. . . what it is, where it has come from, where it’s going, and what it can tell us about kids. Those of us…
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N.Y. City, Teenagers, Sex, & Identity. . . .
Did you happen to see the report that came out today regarding teenagers and sexual behavior? Published in the journal Pediatrics, the report is based on survey data from the latest edition of The Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which was…
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