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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Macklemore’s “Same Love” Same-Sex Marriage Song. . . Talking Points. . .
As promised yesterday, we’ve posted our 3(D) free download on Macklemore’s “Same Love,” a powerful song and video off of today’s album release, The Heist. Homosexuality and same-sex marriage are hot-button cultural issues that we must be processing and discussing with our…
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Homosexuality and Same-Sex Marriage. . . Our Response. . .
Tomorrow is the day when Macklemore and Ryan Lewis drop their debut full-length album, The Heist, onto the pop culture landscape. Of course, their video single “Same Love,” has been living on that landscape for about three months already. The…
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Same-Sex Marriage and Popular Music. . .
“Music is a map and a mirror.” That’s been a mantra we’ve repeated over and over here at CPYU ever since we started doing what we do. As a map, it shapes the values, attitudes, and resulting behaviors of listeners.…
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Way To Go Jennifer! . . .
I spotted this little video yesterday afternoon and was thrilled to hear this young woman’s bold response to the man who emailed her to challenge her on her weight. His email is more evidence of our obsession with body image,…
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The New Normal. . . and The New Abnormal. . .
Sleep didn’t come easy last night. I’m away from home and waking up to a full day of teaching at the D6 Conference here in Dallas. “D6”. . . that’s short for “Deuteronomy 6” and the well-known yet little-lived passage…
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Tragic Distractions. . . .
Every once in awhile a series of thoughts and events simultaneously converge to prompt a sense of urgency. That’s happened once again this morning. I went to breakfast thinking about some conversations I had last night after speaking to a…
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Sky Mall and the Human Condition. . . .
So I was continuing my journey through Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together:Why We Expect More From Technology and Less from Each Other on some flights the last couple of days. Fascinating stuff. Turkle is a brilliant thinker and expert in robotics.…
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Eye-Opening Pornography Infographic. . .
I’ve been spending the last few days buried in research and writing to update my presentations on the destructive power of pornography. I’m looking forward to speaking on these issues next week at the D6 Conference in Texas and then…
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