Time for Some “Soul Searching”
A huge tip of the Wahoos cap to Keith Plummer at The Christian Mind who reports on the findings of a book that just moved to the top of my must-read list: Soul Searching: The Religious And Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers.
Here’s Keith’s take on the subject:
Here’s the article by Andy Crouch which gives more information, and is definitely worth the read, if you have the stomach for some sad reality:
If teaching a Christian Worldview to our young people doesn’t climb the list of importance in our minds/hearts/priorities, then God help us…
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
Osborne: A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God
Schlossberg: Idols For Destruction
4 Responses to “Time for Some “Soul Searching””
As usual, Al Mohler has had something to say about this. You can read it at http://www.crosswalk.com/news/weblogs/mohler/?adate=4/11/2005#1323494.
-Matt
Matt ~ Apr 18, 2005 at 6:21 pm
Hence the need for institutions like Grove City Christian Academy that provide high-quality educations while simultaneously teaching a Christian worldview.
What’s the rationale for sending kids to public schools, again?
Wade Fisher ~ Apr 19, 2005 at 11:16 am
Awesome link to Keith’s blog. I was able to do one of my field eds with Keith and enjoyed the experience very much. I think you would enjoy conversing with Keith about worldview issues. Excellent catch in the blogoshere.
Peace
Dennis ~ Apr 19, 2005 at 11:39 am
Wade,
That’s a sore spot with me. I have a son who is in 8th grade in public school, after spending his first 4 years in Christian school; his ADD problems were not easily handled by a small Christian school that does a great job with normal learners, like my daughter. I have never reconciled myself to him being in public school, though the school he is in has as many professing Christians working in it as any you’d probably find anywhere. I never will reconcile myself to this, and the problem is getting worse. I’m not sure what I’m going to do about it next fall; I feel like I’m in a pretty tough bind in some ways. But I know that the public school system—and the willingness of parents to turn our kids over to it—creates difficult obstacles to the inculcation of a Christian worldview. Not insurmountable, but difficult.
Byron ~ Apr 21, 2005 at 9:37 am