Youth Ministry and AI
Does it make your head spin like it does mine? Mine’s been spinning since first learning about and then fiddling around a little bit with AI. Initially, I took the bait to dabble with the unpaid version of Songer, which…
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Parent Prompt: Never Alone, Always Lonely – Breaking the Cycle of Mediated Connection
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. Download the Parent Prompt here. By:Josh Good, CPYU Research Fellow and Ministry Director, Christian Endeavor USA,…
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Is AI Anti-God?
In his book Against The Machine, writer and thinker Paul Kingsnorth contends that thanks to digital technology and advances in AI, we are moving into a world that is governed by Algorithm’s and AI, rather than by God-imaging humanity. In…
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Teens And Digitally-Interrupted Sleep
A free resource from CPYU discussing the health dangers of digitally-interrupted sleep. By Walt Mueller, CPYU President Download the handout here. Here at CPYU, one of our goals to is see young people flourish in life. This begins with pointing…
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Parent Prompt: More Than Youth Group – Why Your Teen Needs the Whole Church
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. Download the Parent Prompt here. By:Kyle Fulks, CPYU Research Fellow and Assistant Pastor at Hope Community…
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Preventing Anxiety 4
With anxiety off the charts as a growing epidemic among children and teens, we’re spending all this week looking at strategies you can employ to prevent anxiety in the kids you know and love. Research is showing that one of…
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Parent Prompt: Parents as Disciplers
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. Download the Parent Prompt here. By: Kyle Fulks, CPYU Research Fellow and Assistant Pastor at Hope…
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Put Down the Phones
With loneliness off the charts for kids in today’s world, we can reasonably conclude that more time looking at screens means less time with others. In her new book “the extinction of experience: being human in a disembodied world”, Christine…
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The Word of the Year is Rage Bait. Is this what we’ve become?
Deep down inside, we wanted the gorilla to come at us so hard that he smashed himself against the glass. We were teenagers visiting the zoo with a couple of dates in tow. We thought it was funny, and we…
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Episode 211: “Loneliness” with Shelby Abbott
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here.Access from Apple Podcasts. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast:Shelby AbbottWhy We’re Feeling Lonely (and What We Can Do About It) by Shelby AbbottOther books by…
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When Social Media Gets “Hot”. . .
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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Chatbots, AI, and a Teen Suicide
Many parents have been playing catch-up when it comes to understanding and setting boundaries around emerging technologies. One such technology is the growing prevalence of online Artificial Intelligence chatbots, a technology which we can all interact with to get answers…
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