College Faith

College Faith


#38: The Pop-Culture Parent: Helping Kids Engage Their World for Christ

November 01, 2023

My guest in this edition of the College Faith Podcast is Dr. Ted Turnau, co-author of The Pop-Culture Parent: Helping Kids Engage Their World for Christ. Ted has spent many years thinking about how to help children (from the early years through young adulthood) understand, evaluate, and flourish in pop culture that is all around us. He shares some of his insights from his study, how his parents helped and didn’t help him, and lessons learned from raising his own children.


 


In this podcast we discuss:


  • What “pop culture” is conceptually and biblically
  • The two ways Christians tend to respond to popular culture, and a better “middle way”
  •  Daniel and his colleagues as examples of a healthy posture toward  popular culture
  • The goal of the Christian parent in the midst of pop culture
  • How various parenting styles tend to influence a student’s decisions once at college
  • The five questions that can help you and your children evaluate things in pop culture
  • A case study: Evaluating the extremely popular Baldur’s Gate 3 video game
  • Six things to keep in mind when we talk with our children about pop culture

 


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