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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007Powerful PSAs on the dangers of social networking. HT: Ben at UYWI Blog. Related + From “Say Everything” (New York magazine) …we’re living in frontier country right now. We can take guesses at the future, but it’s hard to gauge the effects of a drug while you’re still taking it. What happens when a person [...]
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Mooks, Midriffs, Myspace, and More Presented April 18, 2007 at Chinese Christian Herald Crusade’s Flushing Youth Center Thanks to Peter and PaLM for inviting me to share this at Engage, Laurence for recording and posting the video, and L2 Foundation and Chinese Christian Herald Crusades for making this possible! Related Mooks, Midriffs Downloadsday pay virginia [...]
Culture of Compassion 2
Friday, April 20th, 2007Matt asks, in response to the post “A Culture of Compassion”: How could a culture of compassion have changed this [Virginia Tech] situation? Here are some initial thoughts. 1. Monsters like Cho don’t create themselves. Every hour it seems, more details about his troubled life emerge that reveal a tortured soul who was ignored, rejected, [...]
A Campus Ministry Primer for Cities
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007Student Venture Playbook: A Campus Ministry Primer for Cities. Buy it TODAY! I had the privilege of collaborating with Kevin Young and Student Venture New York in designing and writing commentary for their staff training book. After months of envisioning, drafting, designing, and editing, and a baptism by fire in the world of self-publishing, the [...]
A Culture of Compassion
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007+ Thirty-two innocent victims. + Dozens wounded. + One crazed gunman. + Nearly eight years to the day after Columbine, another student at a different school commits the most heinous mass murder in US history. _____________________ On September 11, 2001, my father found himself at the scene of the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s [...]
21 Arrested in High School Basketbrawl
Monday, March 19th, 2007New York City public school students put violence on display at last night’s Public Schools Athletic League’s city championship game between Brooklyn rival high schools Lincoln and Boys & Girls. A wild melee broke out at a high school basketball game inside Madison Square Garden on Sunday night between high school students, police officers, and [...]
Who knew? Midriffs are “harmful”
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007The American Psychological Association (APA) suggests that the proliferation of sexual images of girls and young women in the media is harming their self-image and development. + You know it’s bad when the American Psychological Association issues press releases commenting on it. + Article from Medical News Today. + Watch CNN’s Report. Related + Mooks, [...]
Another great High School opportunity
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL – the Brains who design NASA’s rocketships) Summer High School Internship Program (SpaceSHIP) is designed for high school students who have demonstrated a strong interest in and aptitude for Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Mathematics (STEM). Apply Online: http://minorityeducation.jpl.nasa.gov. Eligibility Requirements: € Students must be U.S. citizens. € All participants must [...]
Serial midriffs gone wild
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007Last week, before Britney’s latest buzzkill, Newsweek asked if serial midriffs Britney, Paris, Lindsay, and Nicole have finally gone too far. Something’s in the air, and I wouldn’t call it love. Like never before, our kids are being bombarded by images of oversexed, underdressed celebrities who can’t seem to step out of a car without [...]
Ludacris is a Mook (but he doesn’t have to be)
Monday, February 12th, 2007Watching Ludacris perform on last night’s Grammy’s, I couldn’t help but feel for him and his millions of fans. He’s a wonderful talent, and the lyrics to Runaway Love, which he performed on the broadcast, are powerful, tragic, and could move all but the hardest of hearts to compassion. See for example, verse 1: Now [...]
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