YPT Podcast ep.83: Translating Youth Culture for Student Discipleship (Evan Barber)
Youth culture can feel like a foreign language, especially with how rapidly it changes. How can youth workers understand the culture of our students… and why is that important anyways?
How Can Christian Parents Help Their Teenagers Think Theologically About Culture?
How can Christian parents disciple their teenagers to build a Christian worldview by helping their kids evaluate culture through a gospel-centered framework? Here’s an example of what that can look like.
Damar Hamlin, the Image of God, and Sitting Shiva Together
In a nonstop culture, this football game has reminded us all about the inherent value and dignity of human life… and it’s worth stopping everything to acknowledge.
What God are We Presenting to Students?
Marvel’s latest series on Disney+ is Moon Knight, which can launch multiple disciple-making conversations with students. One of the biggest questions, however, is for us as youth workers: What kind of God am I presenting to students?
Eternals Through the Eyes of GenZ
Whether you’ve seen all of the MCU movies or have avoided them like the plague, we can’t avoid the impact they’re having on our culture and in the lives of our teenagers. Here are some (spoiler-free) discussion starters based off the latest Marvel movie, Eternals.
Reclaiming Tolerance
Tolerance has become the golden rule for GenZ. Youth workers and parents can be tempted to either fall in line with worldly tolerance, or they can reject tolerance itself as an unChristian option. Instead, let’s reclaim tolerance as an expression of Christian love.
Understanding the GenZ Worldview
How do we understand the religious worldview of GenZ? We need to grapple with their views on tolerance, safety, and cancel culture - not in order to ‘correct’ them, but in order to understand them well enough to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ as a message of Good News.