Category: Culture
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Who is Shaping Your Students?
I recently read an excellent article by a friend on “Preparing Christian Children for the Transgender Moment”. In it he very gracefully shows how he is preparing his kids for moments they will soon deal with. Without being prepared, they would either be swallowed up by the culture or find themselves conflicted by it. Many…
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Is Critical Theory Christian?
This video does a good job explaining the answer.
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Ministry in a Racially Charged World
I was tempted to title this post “We Are All Racist Now” because there has been a redefinition of racism to the extent that Oprah even called on all white people to admit their racism. My understanding of racism growing up was along the lines of discriminating against or treating differently people of other skin…
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Helpful Messages on Racial Reconciliation
With so much unrest on this subject, I found these two messages to be valuable for understanding both scripture and a perspective that the media is generally not showing us.
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Five Reasons Why a Mid Fifties Canadian Professor is Captivating Millennials
I first heard the name Jordan Peterson when one of our more intellectually astute youth ministers was quoted as saying “millennial guys are reading and listening to this person”. I learned from an article online that he was very correct. Peterson has captured the attention of many millennial men. The obvious question is why? Any…
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Lessons We Can Learn From The Covington Catholic Incident
That smirk really annoyed me! As I ate breakfast on Sunday morning with my wife, the news we heard was shocking and saddening. We had been at the March for Life and were thrilled by the massive crowds of young people present. Now we were seeing a teen staring in the face of a native…
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5 Truths About Churches Reaching Millennials
“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.”― Mark Twain I never imagined that I would one day live in a world where any one person’s experience is assumed to be universal truth. What I believe is badly needed today is more observation before drawing conclusions. So when I read this article that a friend…
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Meet Autumn Lindsey!
Last week I got to meet Autumn Lindsey, a 17 year old from the state of Washington who was speaking at the Anglicans For Life Summit in Falls Church Virginia. She is an incredibly articulate speaker who shared with us about how we can engage her generation with the truths of the pro life movement…
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I found this fascinating given that most younger youth ministers are millenials
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God’s Not Dead Too?
Over the past several years, Christian films have been on the rise and I have seen exactly none of them. In fact I cringe when I hear the advertisements on the radio (that’s secular talk radio to be specific, not Christian radio) and at the same time I sort of feel guilty for my reaction. …
