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media

10 Fantastic, Practical Tips to Build Your Media Career

I spoke to a class of film students at a university in Los Angeles, who asked for some tips to build your media career advice before graduation.

Media Influence: How Hollywood Has Hijacked Our Minds

Want to learn more about media influence, especially on today's young people? Discover one youth pastor's take on the pressures wielded by culture.

Spells are Spells — The Occult in Popular Media

A spell is a spell, whether it’s performed for the screen or in a magic circle. Let's take a critical look at how the occult is portrayed in popular movies and media.

Quick Youth Group Lessons: A Teen Bible Study About Purity

Quick youth group lessons can have powerful impact. This is especially true with topics such as media, purity, and Christian living. Here's a free resource to use with teens.

Youth Pastor: Escape Your Cocoon and Engage With the Culture

Holiness-preserving and heart-guarding aren’t bad things, no matter how we choose to engage in culture. But as a youth pastor, I was strangling opportunities to reach teens.

Game of Thrones: Can You Be a Christian and Watch Certain Shows?

Can you be a Christian and watch Game of Thrones? Such inquiries usually come less in the form of genuine curiosity and more in the form of judgmental arrogance. The tone, in other words, is "How can someone possibly be a Christian and…?"

American Media Comparisons of Christians to the Taliban Is Disturbing and Concerning

Controversial film producer Michael Moore and media personalities are comparing American Christians to the Taliban.

Our Kids Are Watching

I’ve been alive 50 years, and I’ve never seen our country so divided. I don’t think many adults are stopping to consider: our kids are watching.