This Week in Faith 1-16-20
/Young Adults Reveal Their Goals For the Next Decade
I thought this was an interesting look at some recent research of 18-35 year olds. While your kids may not fall into this specific range, it gives a glimpse into the goals and priorities of younger generations. It shows their aspirations, fears, and gives us a good starting place for the ways we can help our kids, and young people around us, see how the gospel answers the questions they are asking and needs they have.
Click here to read the article from Barna Research.
Help! My Faith Is Being Opposed in the Classroom
While I don’t think this is as common as movies like “God’s Not Dead” make it out to be, having teachers oppose your faith in high school and college can happen in the same way opposition to faith can come from neighbors, friends and coworkers. Because the classroom can feel like a unique situation, I think this article has some good suggestions for how to approach this, written by a college president. I hope this can spark some good conversations between you and your kids about how to advocate for and articulate their faith in the public square with people who disagree with them. It is a skill that is lacking on all sides and that we need to cultivate again for ourselves and in our kids.
Click here to read the article by Gene Fant Jr.
Why Pornography is So Harmful For Children
This article shares a small part of the author’s heartbreaking story of abuse. But she also uses her story to bring to light some important things we need to think about and be proactive about as parents. We want to give our kids a picture of God’s good purposes for sex and help them understand how to recognize and respond to the dangerous distortions of it in our world, especially pornography. She gives some important statistics for us and our kids to know about the dangers of pornography, as well as some helpful places to start the conversation as they get to the appropriate age.
Click here to read the article by Jennifer Michelle Greenberg.
Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age
Every generation has its own layers that complicate the world of relationships. This is an 18-minute talk by Ben Stuart, who is from Atlanta and I believe is one of the speakers this year at The Mix [but I don’t think he will be talking about dating].
