I’m working on a section for the youth worker’s manual (see the downloads under edt resources) and I’m trying to summarize how girls and boys approach spirituality. Now this might not be differences so much as comparisons, but I have a theory that the way that girls and boys approach spirituality is different along the [...]
The Duck of Minerva has a thoroughly thought-out post on “What Harry Potter inherits from Star Wars.” This post discusses the way stories like this become constitutive myths for an entire generation.
I thought it was a great parallel between the two, especially because as myths, both stories have huge amounts of truth in them, [...]
I’ve been reading Dallas Willard’s The Great Omission as I’ve been reflecting on youth ministry and discipling/mentoring. He reflects a bit on the mentality towards discipleship that seems to be the de facto heir of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship. It seems that while Bonhoeffer’s excellent study on what it costs to be a [...]
I recently finished reading the long-awaited final installment of the Harry Potter series, and discovered several things the church could learn from Harry about what teenagers are looking for.
As early as the first book in the series, we learn that Harry is destined for a fight that could prove deadly. A terrible villain is looking [...]
The space the youth meet in speaks volumes to them, even though they don’t realize it. What they are looking for is not what you say you value, but what you show them you value, so if your youth space is cluttered and not set up for the worship time, no matter what you [...]
I moved this from another blog. The original post was on May 22nd.
“Help! I’ve been kidnapped by a monster who’s trying to relate to me!” This from Arthur, the teenage heir to the throne of Far Far Away after Shrek musters every bit of slang you could possible cram into less than a minute of [...]
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