Archdiocese Lists Resources for Dealing with Internet, Healthy Sexuality, and Pornography

Attention Parents: Archdiocese Lists Resources for Dealing with Postmodernism & Pop Culture

Resources for dealing with postmodernism and pop culture with full link pathways

Postmodernism

Center for Parent-Youth Understanding www.cpyu.org

Article: Spirituality in a postmodern world: http://www.youthspecialties.com/articles/topics/spirituality/tuning_in.php

Center for Parent-Youth Understanding: Understanding Today's Youth Culture
http://www.cpyu.org/

Article: Connect the Dots, How Kids Think in a Non-Linear Culture http://www.cpyu.org/Page.aspx?id=76874

Characteristics of this postmodern generation http://www.cpyu.org/Page.aspx?id=77190

Article: Where the Teens are - online teen communities https://www.cpyu.org/Page.aspx?id=80334

Postmodernism http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/573/pomochart.html

See also "Working
with Orthodox Youth
in a Postmodern
World"

Pop culture

Pop culture resources - bible study and youth session guides that discuss latest movies and MTV video music awards http://shop2.gospelcom.net/epages/YouthSpecialties.storefront/

Latest pop culture news http://www.popculturemadness.com/

Article: "Jesus Christ, Pop Star?" http://www.boundless.org/2002_2003/departments/campus_culture/a0000671.html

Hollywood Jesus, a website devoted to spirituality in movies www.hollywoodjesus.com

Movie Ministry, hundreds of sermons, bible studies, and discussion guides based on popular films http://www.movieministry.com/

Popular adolescent sites

www.bolt.com
www.myspace.com
www.mtv.com
www.ecrush.com

Other

Hurt, a book by Chap Clark, Baker Academic, 2004

Shaping the Spiritual Life of Students, a book by Richard Dunn, InterVarsity Press, 2001

Postmodern Youth Ministry, a book by Tony Jones, Zondervan, 2001

When Kumbaya Is Not Enough: A Practical Theology for Youth Ministry, a book by Dean Borgman, Hendrickson Publishers, 1997

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