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Violated. . . . again. . . .
Walt Mueller the director for the Center of Youth and Parent Understanding has written an amazing piece on diving into the brokenness of the emerging generation. Two key questions come out: 1. What is happening in this young person’s life that shouldn’t be happening? and. . . 2. What is not happening in this young person’s life that should be happening?…
Welcome to Their Jungle Part 2
I wanted to finish up the thoughts about the youth culture in general and the effects of postmodernity (read part one here). This generation is suspicious of truth claims. The statisitcs that Mueller presents from the Barna group are alarming in that most “Christian” teenagers do not believe that their faith is based on something “true”. The…
It's A Whole New World
This is the third post in a series on Walt Mueller’s book, Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture. We are picking up on his next theme and that is the reality of a changing world. The world around us is changing and a new way of understanding the world around us is beginning to emerge. He quotes Gerard Kelly saying, “change can be approached in two ways –…
Lost Children
This is the first post of a series on Walt Mueller’s book, Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture. I hope that you find his thoughts(and mine) helpful and insightful. It’s one of the best books on youth culture that I have read in a very long time. The introduction lays out some key thoughts for us to think about. First, “We haven’t kept up in our…