Trend Alert: Teen Suicide – Warning Signs and Cries for Help
Here are five categories of signs and cries that teens may give before attempting or committing suicide. Carefully read through the descriptions of these signs, realizing that they will usually appear in some combination in a teenager’s life. Download the…
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Digital Self Harm
It’s important that we pay special attention to any new trends that are sparked by the growing presence of smartphones and technology in today’s youth culture. One new trend has been labeled as “digital self-harm”, and it’s on the rise…
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Episode 155: “Exploring Faith’s Big Questions” with Mary Jo Sharp
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: Mary Jo Sharp (website) Darkroom Episode 7/Suffering – Max Wants to…
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Hearing the Pain of Brokenness
In her book, Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers, Leslie Leyland Fields writes about our need to enter into the sufferings of others. . . sufferings that we may never have experienced ourselves and therefore have little ability to understand. In…
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Trend Alert: Cutting – Deeper And Wider
Cutting and self-injury are on the rise among our teens. If we care at all about kids we should learn to recognize, understand, and answer these visual cries of a generation longing for spiritual truth, emotional healing, and answers. Download…
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