Worst Youth Event Give-Away Ever

I’ve heard of giving away things like iPods and video game systems to attract youth to church events, but a semiautomatic assault rifle?!?  Seriously?

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Teenage Girls Intentionally Getting Pregnant

Have you heard the story out of Gloucester, MA, about the teenage girls that collectively decided to get pregnant?  (Watch the MSNBC report here.)  Accidental pregnancies have occurred among teenage girls throughout history, but it strikes me as uniquely disturbing that intentional teenage pregnancies would ever become a trend.  As much as we all lauded [...]

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Teen Girls and STDs

Almost every student ministry blog I read has made reference to the Associated Press article that appeared last week claiming that one out of every four teenage girls (over 3 million girls) has a sexually transmitted disease.  I think more than anything, we’re in a collective state of disbelief wondering where our sex ed programs [...]

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Teens and Profanity

I thought this was an interesting article about teens and their use of profanity.  It’s not that cursing has become a new trend among teens; however, it does seem that their inhibitions about using profanity have diminished.
(ht to YPulse)

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Interfaith Dialogue

My wife and I have been watching The West Wing on DVD lately.  Season 2 ended with the possibility of President Jed Bartlet announcing his intentions to seek re-election in dramatic fashion.  It was a cliff-hanger ending leaving us eager to see what happened at the beginning of the next season.  When we put Disc 1 of [...]

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The Online Generation Gap

Someone asked me a couple of weeks ago to name the biggest difference in youth ministry today over five years ago.  In my opinion, the biggest difference has been the introduction of online social networking.  Sites like MySpace and Facebook have radically changed the social dynamic of youth culture (and culture in general for that [...]

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Expelled

I’m not one that gets too excited about the debates over creation, evolution, and intelligent design, but the new documentary “Expelled” looks very interesting to me.  Ben Stein (“Beuller?  Bueller?”) takes a look at the ostricizing of those in the scientific community that aren’t towing the line when it comes to neo-Darwinism.  This is obviously [...]

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