How Do You “Look?” . . . .
“Worldview” . . . that’s a word I used to have to define when I’d talk about it with youth workers and parents 15 years ago. I was finding that it was a relatively new and unfamiliar concept, term, and…
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Using Social Media in Youth Ministry. . . Some Guidelines. . .
Yesterday I promised to follow-up some personal social media use guidelines for youth workers with some parameters for use of social media and technology in youth ministry. Here’s the deal. . . in our Digital Kids Initiative we are not…
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Youthworkers and Social Media. . . Some Guidelines. . .
So we were asked a great question by our friend Kevin Vinay, a youth worker here in Pennsylvania. Kevin realizes that social media is here and here to stay. Knowing full well that anything in life can be abused or…
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Trending. . . Pornography. . .
One reality that keeps rearing it’s ugly head as I complete research for our Digital Kids Initiative is the pervasive presence of pornography in today’s world. It’s a growing issue for men, women, and children. Way back in 1996, the…
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10 Days Without. . . .
Daniel Day works for Axis, a ministry committed to moving students from apathy to action. Sounds like a mission we should all embrace. I love the mission, the concept, and what Daniel has chosen to do personally for the cause.…
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Dear Gareth. . . Thoughts On Your Thoughts About My Thoughts On Steve Jobs. . .
If there’s one thing I realized yesterday after posting on the reaction to Steve Jobs’ death, it’s that Steve Jobs was a lot more important to people than I ever knew or imagined. This morning Gareth commented on my blog…
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Thoughts On Steve Jobs And Our Reaction To His Death. . . .
Last night while watching my beloved Phillies fizzle out, the Twitter-verse was going crazy with word that Steve Jobs had died. So massive and fast was the spreading of the news, that I wouldn’t have been surprised if my Blackberry…
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Pop Music and Sex. . . The Science Says 92% . . .
So here’s an interesting story on an interesting study that counted and catalogued some interesting stuff. According to a study written up by Dawn R. Hobbs for Evolutionary Psychology, 92% of the 174 songs that made it into the Billboard…
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I Married The Wrong Person. . . .
Earlier today I was finishing a run-through of the September issue of Christianity Today magazine when I ran across a little interview with Glenn Stanton on “The Science of Shacking Up.” Stanton’s the author of The Ring Makes All The…
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His Lips Were Sealed. . . .
Last week I caught the tail-end of a radio interview with Ralph Branca. If I had heard his name before, I didn’t remember it. I do, however, know the name of Bobby Thomson. . . the man used his bat…
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The Twitter Movie. . . Well, Sort Of. . . .
This ongoing journey to evaluate culture through eyes of integrity and faith sure does take some interesting twists and turns. When people exercise their fallen creativity new thingss pop up every day. . some that make you laugh and some…
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Making Myself Up. . . Again. . . .
Back in the 1980’s I had to intervene in a bizarre situation involving one of our youth group kids. I caught wind of the fact that this tender young middle school girl was telling kids at school that she had…
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