Photo by: Stephanie Keith
Check out this
interesting photo essay by Rolling Stone about Christian music festivals and coffee houses, etc. It’s an interesting look at the sub-culture of Christian music, and it gives a great look at what mainstream media thinks about Christians.
(via: Ypulse.com)
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Beloit College has released their list of characteristics of the Class of 2010. Be sure to check them out.
Members of the class of 2010, entering college this fall (and high school), were mostly born in 1988. For them: Billy Carter, Lucille Ball, Gilda Radner, Billy Martin, Andy Gibb, and Secretariat have always been dead.
Here are 10 of them…
- The Soviet Union has never existed and therefore is about as scary as the student union.
- They have known only two presidents.
- For most of their lives, major U.S. airlines have been bankrupt.
- Manuel Noriega has always been in jail in the U.S.
- They have grown up getting lost in giant retail stores known as “big boxes.”
- There has always been one Germany.
- They have never heard anyone actually “ring it up” on a cash register.
- They are wireless, yet always connected.
- A stained blue dress is as famous to their generation as a third-rate burglary was to their parents’.
- Thanks to pervasive head phones in the back seat, parents have always been able to speak freely in the front.
Read the rest of the list here.
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Tim over at Life in Student Ministry posts some thoughts about creating online communities for youth ministry. In it, he gives some thoughts on a talk by Rick Klau.
Some of them are very interesting. Here are the ones that caught my attention:
- Give people a voice in our community. Give them a place to interact. This works perfectly in the context of the church. People will be more attracted to us as an organization.
- A funny dance video online makes 30 million views in 4 months not from big marketing campaigns but from people telling friends and sharing it online.
- MySpace is overtaking Google for the most traffic on the Internet. People spend more time interacting with friends on MySpace than they do looking for information.
- One hundred million people watch YouTube every day. That’s more than how many people are watching TV.
There are more. Check out the article to see them. Then check out the audio file.
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You probably already knew about this, but if not, you’ve got a chance to win all sorts of sweet prizes over at The Source 4 youth ministry in their Hideous Heap contest. That is, of course, if you have a hideous heap of a car. First prize is a free registration to the National Youth Workers’ Convention. Be sure to send in your entry by September 8, 2006, in order to have a chance to win.
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