Youth Culture Update: Not Real Life
Essena O'Neill, an Australian Internet star with more than 700,000 followers on Instagram and 260,000 subscribers on YouTube, announced that she was chucking her celebrity for a more real life. "I spent five...
Culture Watch: The Youth Worker and Radical Vulnerability
On a Wednesday afternoon late last summer, a startling news story popped up on my phone. It was another in an ongoing string of stories about the Ashley Madison website hack, the revelation of who had acc...
God’s Giants: Reminders of His Greatness
"The heavens proclaim the glory of God and the firmament proclaims God's handiwork" (Ps. 19:1). Not long ago, my wife and I vacationed in California and spent two days hiking through the Redwood National For...
Doorways for Youth Groups
Many years ago I worked with a very talented youth leader who taught me about doorways with teenagers. Essentially, he recognized that not all teenagers enter the church or into a youth ministry in the same f...
In Search of Adolescence: A New Look at an Old Idea
Crystal Kirgiss The Youth Cartel, 2015, 140 pp., $12.99 Are you ready to change the way you have been thinking about teenagers? Are you prepared to rethink all the things you thought you knew about the mode...
Youth Culture Lesson: Frightful
What Scares You? What Should Scare You? Get downloadable PDF. Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation. About/Disclaimer What Happened For those of us who live in the United States, we have it pr...
Youth Culture Update: No Dancing Around this Issue
Fed up with twerking and grinding, Maine's Gorham High School has put the kibosh on most school dances—with the principal blaming MTV and VH1 for the upsurge in dirty dancing. "It's really almost simul...
Youth Culture Update: Teens Catching Fire—Literally
News outlets are reporting on a disturbing new Internet trend: Videos showing teens dousing themselves with lighter fluid or another flame accelerant, then setting themselves on fire before putting out the fire...
Youth Culture Update: Officially Taking the Family out of ABC
ABC Family is changing its name to Freeform. "This is an evolution for our company that has been going on for a long time," said ABC Family President Tom Ascheim. Some would argue the name change is overdue. ...
Youth Culture Update: Scary!
What scares people? Quite a bit, according to a survey conducted by Chapman University. Corruption topped the list of what people are terrified of, with 58 percent of those polled admitting to being afraid or v...