Topics to discuss with teens before prom
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“Long before plans for this cultural springtime event start to take shape, we need to begin talking with our teens about media messages and our biblical worldview.” From thrivingfamily.com
"[T]aking any stand on homosexuality short of complete... affirmation will soon place one in the same moral category as a Klansman"
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“I am not a cultural transformationalist; but if there are any such reading this blog, I might suggest that now would be a good time for you chaps to start proving me wrong. Yes, I do appreciate the cool movie reviews, the nice paintings… but I have a suspicion that it would really be much more helpful if we were seeing some transformation for the good in society’s moral and legal standards.”
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Barna: Evangelical movie-going habits surprisingly high
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“The evangelical average is a full movie more than the national adult average, and just shy of the average of 3 films seen by those professing no religion.”
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Study: Broadcast TV nudity up 407 percent
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“…a new study shows there was a 407 percent increase in pixilated-type full nudity on broadcast television in the 2011-12 TV year — most of it occurring before 9 p.m. and little of it containing the appropriate warning”
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"Not surprisingly, in the process of adapting to the new immature adulthood, churches started looking a lot like youth groups"
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On the invention of the “teenager” and today’s permanently (?) teenaged church… When Are We Going to Grow Up? The Juvenilization of American Christianity
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