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Sports as Idol

I recently read a fascinating and helpful perspective on the place sports should and should not hold in our lives written by Robert Cunningham for ByFaith magazine. Cunningham says that all of us have been made with religious impulses and…
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Gender Transition with American Girl Dolls

Late last year, popular doll maker American Girl released a new book for girls. It’s titled, “A Smart Girls guide: Body Image Book: How to love yourself, live life to the fullest, and celebrate all kinds of bodies.” The book’s…
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Your Kids and Their Future

When I was young, I thought that childhood would last forever, and, like Peter Pan, I’d always be a boy. Then I became a teenager. I realized that soon I’d be responsible for myself. This was important as my parents…
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Episode 162: “Theology of the Body” with Timothy Tennent

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: Dr. Timothy Tennent Dr. Timothy Tennent (bio) Asbury Theological Seminary TheologyoftheBody.net…
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Selfies and Poor Body Image

Teddy Roosevelt once said that “comparison is the thief of joy.” These words are proven true each and every day that our kids engage in comparing themselves to others as they scroll almost endlessly through social media. If you’ve spent…
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Finding Identity in an AR World

I was recently chatting with some youth workers about the changes they are seeing in how their teenaged students form identity. They were lamenting the fact that kids are leaning less and less into God’s will and way for discovering…
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