Kids Giving Pat Answers
A few nights ago, our family had Jesse and Megan Oakes over for dinner. Jesse is one of our youth pastors at Lake Avenue Church …
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Relationship Currency
A research report was released this week from the Pew Internet & American Life Project called Teens and Sexting
Youth Runaways on the Rise
This week the NY Times online is running a 2-part series of articles and videos unfolding nearly a year of research on youth runaways and homelessness.
Coming Out in Middle School
If you didn’t see the article in last week’s NY Times school issue titled “Coming Out in Middle School,” you should give it a read.
The New Goodnight Kiss
There’s a new book and documentary out called Oral Sex Is The New Goodnight Kiss
based on research by Sharlene Azam on teenage prostitution. This isn’t the teen prostitution of the past that primarily involved girls from high-risk settings…
I Think I’m Gay Having Healthy Dialogue with Kids Who Struggle with Sexual Orientation
As the societal pendulum swings very swiftly toward greater openness to the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) community, we are faced with the reality that it’s a growing struggle among more and more of the kids in our youth groups — and implement some tools to help us respond. Irene Cho shares insights from Andrew Marin’s research and new book, Love is an Orientation.
Sexting and Exploitation
If you work with teenagers and you’ve followed the news over the past few months, the term “sexting” isn’t new to you.
Sexting is the sending of nude or nearly-nude images and/or sexually explicit messages via cell phone text/image messaging,…
Let’s Talk About Sex
Kara Powell and Jeff Mattesich talk with parents and teenagers about ways to improve our communication about sexuality and open the doors for honest conversations.
Good Sex Excerpt Talking to Parents about Teen Sexuality
Most of us are more than a little uncomfortable talking with parents of kids in our youth ministries about sex, especially when we’re talking about their own kids’ sexual behaviors. This free excerpt from the newly-updated Good Sex 2.0 curriculum…
Your Most Powerful Sex Organ
It was one of my seminary professors who once said in a lecture about human sexuality, “Your most powerful sexual organ isn’t between your legs, it’s between your ears.”
As I have surveyed the most recent research on teenage sexuality,…