Please continue the conversation on this post, but I thought you might be interested in seeing what the readers of the Youth Specialties’ blog are saying about this post here.
Now that I’m getting back into youth ministry again, it’s been an interesting process to get brought up to speed with some of the many new resources that are out there. Of course there are always going to be really great resources and ones that are just lacking. And naturally, there will always be some resources that certain people have theological issues with. But it seems like every now and then, you run across parts of resources or curriculum that are just simply inappropriate and should not be used in youth ministry.
YouthBytes has provided one such video. I don’t know much about YouthBytes or Chad Daniel, who seems to be the man behind the operation. YouthBytes is meant to be a discipleship tool to help fight one of the great enemies of the Church: “teenage boredom with the things of God.” And apparently for Chad, that means producing videos like this:
Commenting Policy
Every now and then, I find it’s helpful to mention I have a Commenting Policy at pomomusings. This is not an uncommon thing for blogs to have (e.g. ProBlogger and The Huffington Post), especially when there is a log of dialogue that occurs on the site. A few years ago, I created my Commenting Policy, after having to shut down comments for a few months. I didn’t like the direction the blog’s conversation was heading (primarily because of a few commenters who left once the the posts were closed for comments). After a few months, I opened the site back up for comments with this Commenting Policy. Below is the policy that I wrote a few years ago.
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