I recently had a very interesting lunch with a defense attorney who told me something that reminded me of just how powerful the choices we make really are. Specifically, his words drove home the point that what...

As a culture watcher, I can't help but notice how quickly and extensively youth culture is changing. In many ways, we're living in the midst of a cultural earthquake. The danger is that when you've been living ...

I can't tell you how many movies I've watched through the years in my quest to listen to and better understand the emerging generations. There are a few timeless films that have impacted me so much that I've ma...

Earlier this year, a series of real-life soap operas were playing out on the pop culture stage in ways you couldn't escape or ignore. Two of the biggest stories featured plotlines that included lying, cheating,...

Jack and Jill, sitting in a treeK-I-S-S-I-N-GFirst comes love, then comes marriageThen comes baby in the baby carriage.My childhood friends and I would chant this poem in unison when we mocked our peers who had...

Late last spring, social media pioneer Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook nation (Facebook is now the third most populated country in the world!), started thinking out loud about lowering their age restriction to...

Should a Christian read/see The Hunger Games or Bully?Hmmmm. I hate these types of questions.I was asked about The Hunger Games earlier this year by a youth worker who knows I had read the book and seen the fil...

Jeff Van Gundy admits he wasn't thinking…at least not about what he should have been thinking about.At the time, Van Gundy was the coach of basketball's New York Knicks. Driving home after a game, he was ...

I vividly remember a day when sex-chatter made me squirm. A terribly insecure high school sophomore, I wanted nothing more than to fit in with the other guys on the football team.One Monday, I found myself seat...

Three hundred youth workers, parents and pastors from all over the city had gathered to learn about the culture of teenagers and how to reach them with the gospel. The church where we were gathered sat right ac...