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A La Carte (1/21)
- 01/21/10
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The Online Life of Kids
“The fact that children and teenagers now spend a good deal of their lives connected to electronic devices is hardly news. We are now accustomed to the knowledge that teenagers are seldom seen without wires in their years and a cell phone in the hand as they multitask their way through adolescence. Now, however, there is good reason to believe that these young people are far more connected than we have even imagined.”
Mark Driscoll on Haiti
Mark Driscoll took a brief trip to Haiti. USA Today talked to him about some of what he saw when he was there.
Talking to Your Kids About Marriage and Sex
Jay Younts, who writes for Shepherd Press, is beginning a series of blog posts dealing with how and when to talk to your children about sex. Topics will include: “when to talk about sex and what specifics should be covered at what age, what sexual attraction is, and abuses of God’s provision for sexual activity.”
Happy Helms
My sister Maryanne’s blog went quiet a year or two ago. Since then quite a few people wrote me to ask what had happened to it. Well, at long last it is back. You can find it (again) at happyhelms.com.
RHB’s Book Sale
RHB still has lots of overstock and other books to sell. They’re offering them for very good prices so get them while the getting’s good!
“The fact that children and teenagers now spend a good deal of their lives connected to electronic devices is hardly news. We are now accustomed to the knowledge that teenagers are seldom seen without wires in their years and a cell phone in the hand as they multitask their way through adolescence. Now, however, there is good reason to believe that these young people are far more connected than we have even imagined.”
Mark Driscoll on Haiti
Mark Driscoll took a brief trip to Haiti. USA Today talked to him about some of what he saw when he was there.
Talking to Your Kids About Marriage and Sex
Jay Younts, who writes for Shepherd Press, is beginning a series of blog posts dealing with how and when to talk to your children about sex. Topics will include: “when to talk about sex and what specifics should be covered at what age, what sexual attraction is, and abuses of God’s provision for sexual activity.”
Happy Helms
My sister Maryanne’s blog went quiet a year or two ago. Since then quite a few people wrote me to ask what had happened to it. Well, at long last it is back. You can find it (again) at happyhelms.com.
RHB’s Book Sale
RHB still has lots of overstock and other books to sell. They’re offering them for very good prices so get them while the getting’s good!
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Comments (5)
I believe that they have come up with a name in communication theory for the ‘wired’ generation. They call it ‘digital autism’ and it basically means the ‘inability to have face to face conversations due to digital dependence [paraphrase]’. I have seen this in the local Starbucks with two people sitting across from each other at a table texting each other and friends. This really affects how people communicate and my question is ‘what does this do for them when it comes to presenting the Gospel?’
I resonate with the Mohler article. I’m considerably older than the generation he’s talking about, but my job involves me sitting at a net-connected computer for 9 hours a day. And when I get home, I frequently spend a large portion of that time online as well. I would estimate that on a week day I normally spend 10+ hours in front of a computer. Not surprisingly, when I go on vacation and have to temporarily “disconnect”, I find it slightly uncomfortable to be without a steady stream of news, blogs, sports scores, etc.
When I was a child, we only had one television in our home. I watched programs with my parents. I now realize how much that enabled my parents to influence my values.
I think that link to the article about Mark Driscoll and Churches Helping Churches is wonky. For some reason it takes you to the Religion and Faith mainpage of USA today. Here’s the direct link: http://content.usatoday.com/topics/post/Religion+and+beliefs/Leaders,+Experts/Mark+Driscoll/15804.blog/1
I really like your a la carte posts- thanks for compiling them.
Here is some of what Driscoll and McDonald came back with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esUu2C6kLu8&feature=player_embedded