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Generation O
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Has it only been one week since Election Day?
Our congratulations go out to President-elect Obama, as do our prayers.
People are still talking about what the election of Obama means. Here are some links we found interesting:
Younger Voters
Obama reached out to younger voters, most of whom voted for him. Catholics overall favored Obama, while Protestants, evangelicals and older voters favored McCain. Obama made significant inroads among young Christians, as articles by The New York Times and the Associated Press reported:
“Generation O”
Some are even starting to refer to “Generation O.”
The Cosby Factor
Another fascinating article argued that Bill Cosby’s popular TV show paved the way for an Obama presidency. Apparently Republican strategist Karl Rove agrees that the Huxtables in family rooms across the U.S. set the stage for the Obamas in the White House.
The Fear Factor
If you or someone you know fears the election of Obama is the beginning of the end, the “President-elect Antichrist,” blog from YWJ columnist Walt Mueller should help.
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Santa Wants a Smoke
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Here comes Christmas, along with the deluge of ads and commercials urging us to buy, buy, buy.
You can do an activity with your kids featuring some of the many vintage tobacco ads compiled by Stanford University’s School of Medicine, like this one from 1951 featuring a smoking Santa.
You can access the Santa ad, and others compiled by Stanford here.
What kinds of messages do these tobacco ads send? How do they compare with contemporary ads for cigarettes or other products?
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Free Stuff: Books and Dr. Pepper |
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Books
This just in from Publishers Lunch:
Free books, as long as you blog: Thomas Nelson has launched a formal program to enroll interested bloggers and provide them with free review copies of “select titles” in exchange for the promise of a posting of a review of at least 200 words on a blog and at Amazon.com.
Dr. Pepper
And this just in from your friends at Guns N’ Roses. The band has been trying to put out a new album for centuries. Now it looks like “Chinese Democracy” will be out Nov. 23. If so, you can get a free Dr. Pepper by logging on and requesting a coupon that day. Click here for details.
Advent Blogcast
Want something interesting to help you focus on the meaning of the holiday season? Join Benedictine monk Albert Holtz on his daily outings as he heads out of his abbey and through the colorful, noisy streets of downtown Newark, New Jersey.
Father Albert points out the often-unnoticed connections between our secular celebration of the holidays and the deeper, spiritual meaning of the holy seasons of Advent and Christmas.
To learn more listen to an interview with Fr. Albert Holtz, log in here Nov. 22 at 11 a.m. EST, or listen to the archived show at a later time.
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YouthWorker Journal TOOLS Review: Hotness, etc.
Hotness: A Pocket Bible Study Journal
Mean: A Pocket Bible Study Journal
Sex: A Pocket Bible Study Journal
Dating: A Pocket Bible Study Journal
Hayley DiMarco
Revell, 2008, 128 pp. each, $14.99
www.revellbooks.com
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Each booklet contains everything needed for six weeks of study or discussion for individuals and groups. Material is practical, interactive (write this, draw that, circle these, underline those). DiMarco urges readers to explore the booklets with a “crew” of friends.
Hotness and Mean are geared toward girls; Sex and Dating work for both sexes. They’re formatted in a way that doesn’t require an adult leader. Unclear daily start-stops mean readers can choose to do one or more sections of commentary and QA.
Each week’s study is well-stocked with questions and applicable verses—many, which you wouldn’t expect go with the topic, but which DiMarco thoughtfully uses to help the reader think through to the real, subsurface issues (for example, how one’s thought life influences a person).
Though they’re geared toward Christians, I could see a sharp Christian student leading a small group of unchurched students, regardless of their place on the spiritual continuum. DiMarco’s blunt (in a good way) style of communicating relevant issues makes this series suited for mature students.
Adult and peer leader guides are free on hungryplanet.net. Hotness videos are on hungryplanet.tv.
— Reviewer Danette Matty is a speaker and member of Group’s nationwide training team.
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[To subscribe to Youth WorkerJournal, click here]
Thanks for joining us for this issue of the YouthWorker eJournal. See you next time.
Sincerely, Steve Rabey, YouthWorker Journal editor, and our entire crew
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