Showing Humility on Social Media
All this week we are looking at Paul Tripp’s new book, Reactivity: How The Gospel Transforms our Actions and Reactions, and what it means to respect the dignity of others, remembering that all human beings are divine image bearers, especially…
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Our Kids Need Relationships
It was way back in 2011 that MIT Professor Sherry Turkle released her ground-breaking book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. Turkle was writing about the growing epidemic of loneliness, precipitated in many…
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Wade – Don’t Dive – Into AI. . .
I don’t know about you, but I find these words from Herman Narula deeply troubling: “One day this book will be read by a person without a body. . . If a brain can connect to a computer – whatever…
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Online Peer Pressure
Earlier this year, Mitch Prinstein, the chief science officer at the American Psychological Association spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee about the effects that social media and technology are having on our kids. His particular focus was on the decline…
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A Brand-New Parent/Youthworker Resource From CPYU! . . .
We’re pretty excited about the launch of a new FREE resource we’ve put together to help parents and youth workers become aware of, understand, and respond to cultural realities our kids face, navigate, and even embrace in today’s world. It’s…
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Parent Prompt: Chat GPT and Today’s Teen
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. Christian parents need to approach the artificial intelligence (AI) tools that our kids are using with…
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Falling Waters, WV: Understanding Today’s Youth Culture
CPYU President Dr. Walt Mueller will deliver a presentation on “Understanding Today’s Youth Culture” with an emphasis on technology’s influence on kids.
Youth Ministry: Nurturing Adolescent Belief and Behavior. . .
Because I grew up in a Pastor’s home, we oftentimes had missionaries visit and stay with us. I remember listening to the stories and watching the slide shows they’d deliver during the all-ages Sunday School hour. These encounters shaped my…
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Parent Prompt: Social Media & God’s Glory
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. Social Media and technology are good gifts from God. But like all other good gifts from…
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Social Media Dangers
Neuroscientists at the University of North Carolina have been working to find an answer to a question many of us have about the relationship between our kids and their use of social media. That question is this: what is social…
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Episode 165: “How Is Social Media Discipling Kids?” with Chris Martin
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here. RSS FEED – click here. Access from iTunes. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Chris Martin (website) Terms of Service (newsletter) the funnies with Chris…
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Be Careful How You “Play” On Social Media. . .
Regrets. . . I’ve had a few. . . well, more than few. The older I get, the more I realize that my default setting is to be and do in ways that lead to a hindsight oftentimes filled with regret. There are far…
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