XXXchurch: TEENS BLOG
Clothing has been a big part of youth culture, ESPECIALLY in the past decade. But I haven't been alive for half as long as most of you, so I could be wrong. Maybe clothing was a bigger deal in the 1800's, I dunno.
So, being someone who likes to let people know what kind of stuff I like (see my last blog), clothing has always helped display my ego. There are basically two things I like a LOT:...
Competing for Attention
You know the old (terrible) saying, “Nice guys finish last”? Well, when I was a teenager, I definitely played both sides of that phrase.
From a young age, what I had witnessed about gaining the attention of girls was that you either had to be extremely loud and uninhibited, willing to make a total donkey of yourself, or you had to play the best friend who listens to...
I was never really raised around very many girls. I spent my first few years of elementary at a private school, then I was homeschooled, then I went back to the private school in 7th grade for a semester, then I boned out and homeschooled until I graduated early. As such, I was not really around girls very much unless I was at my youth group. We want girls to like us, but we don’t want...
Here is the latest episode of Voices. This is #7.
You wouldn’t be able to pick up a music magazine in the past several years without seeing a piece on August Burns Red. While some may say heavy music is dying or at least becoming terribly unoriginal, ABR, led my tough guy/sweet guy Jacob Luhrs is flourishing. Most recently, Luhrs was asked to head up Heartsupport.com, a well known and now...
This topic deals strongly in relation to my last blog post, which I had removed because of the unsettlingly hostile response to it. But on the plus side, I can use it as a good example here.
Christianity requires community, and community implies accountability. But one thing I have noticed about accountability, is that it can’t simply be thrown out for all to see and offer “council”...
Have you ever heard of date rape? The answer is probably yes. And it’s just a guess but I’ll bet you heard about it in school, that’s where I heard about it. When it was taught, my teacher made it seem like date rape just happens when you are in a loud dance club with blue and green laser lights and fog. Then when you’re good and drunk, some sleazy, frat-boy lookin’ dude slips a roofie in your...
One reason porn is harmless is that it doesn’t cross over into our everyday lives. You can simply spend a few hours isolated from human contact (your own doesn’t count) and stop whenever you like, returning to spend some good quality time with your girl or boyfriend, completely unaffected by watching strangers have sex.
Right?
Wrong!
If anything, porn intrudes into most areas of our life,...
The documentary follows three filmmakers as they research for a fictional feature film about a sex slave from Latin America. But after a dangerous trip through a dozen Latin countries, their hearts are changed by the brokenness of the victims, and their quest to make a movie becomes a compelling story within itself. With first-hand interviews on the streets of the Latin sex trade and the...
"Sex trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under the age of 18 years." - Department of Health and Human Services
I'm from Portland Oregon. The most beautiful city in the US. We have the best coffee, brew the best beer, have an amazing music scene and we're an...
Porn pretends to be something it's not. For the viewer it depicts a fantasy of sex. It makes it seem like this is what all sex is like. It tells the lie that if you aren't doing it like that, you are missing out. Or if you're body isn't that perfect, you are unattractive-that sex is about performing.
But it is not just the viewer that has lies fed to them. Porn lies to porn stars and porn...
