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By Lonna Chang-Ren Lee
Dan in Real Life is a well-made movie for teens to discuss because it portrays realistic, multi-generational, and messy family relationships between parents and children. We see the transformation of one man's life through his learning from these rel...
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By Lisa Nichols Hickman
Who doesn't want to live in a world of enchantment? To give up gritty, everyday reality for a fairytale life of "happily ever after"? But perhaps the name of this movie, Enchanted, is a misnomer for the plot line of this story. It would be very easy ...
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By Lisa Nichols Hickman
Evan Almighty is a story about God's crazy call on Evan Baxter (based on the story of Noah) and the effects that call has on every aspect of Evan's life. Evan is asked to make an ark of gopher wood (Gen. 6:14). To respond to that call he finds he mus...
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By Lisa Nichols Hickman
Everybody hurts. Frederick Buechner says that the theological task and one of the main developmental tasks of adolescence is to learn how to be good stewards of pain. This does not mean to endure needless suffering. His words are a call to learn how ...
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By Brent Parker
Music is a powerful influence in the lives of many people, especially youth. How is the music we are listening to informing what we know and believe about ourselves, about humanity, and about our God?This session invites youth to examine some contemp...
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Glee 
A Study for Youth
By KATHY WOLF REED
High school is a critical time when youth begin to reflect on the narrative of their own lives and decide how they want that story to be told. Competing influences sway young people between wanting to be themselves and avoiding any group or individua...
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Hunger Games 
A Study on the Book and Movie
By KATHY WOLF REED
The Hunger Games trilogy raises numerous theological themes, and many youth are reading the books and watching the movies as they are being released. In this one-session study for youth, "Hunger Games: A Study on the Book and Movie," participants wil...
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By Lonna Chang-Ren Lee
What is God's plan for my life? Teenagers often experience a time of searching for identity, finding faith, and making tough decisions. Many are asking, in the midst of very hectic and pressured lives, what am I suppose to be in the world? This one-s...
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By Gina Yeager-Buckley
Juno MacGuff is a smart, creative, and observant high school junior who, after a single sexual act with her best friend, Paul, finds herself pregnant. The movie presents, in an innovative, edgy but sweet, humorous but poignant way, the expected and u...
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New Moon 
A Study for Youth
By Katherine M. Douglass
This study is designed to encourage teens to talk openly about their take on how their "peers" in the movies deal with issues such as depression, risk-taking, body image, and abusive relationships as represented in the phenomenally popular movie New ...
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By Lisa Nichols Hickman
How do we learn tolerance? The surprising answer offered by the documentary Paper Clips is that you begin counting. In 1998, a group of twenty five middle school students at Whitwell Middle School in Tennessee began a course of study on intolerance a...
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Step Away from the Computer 
Using Technology Wisely
By Megan Pillow Davis
There is no doubt our lives have radically been changed by technology. Yet, with new gadgets and communicative tools being created daily, we seldom stop to consider how to use them for the greatest good.This one- session study invites youth to consid...
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By Anna Kendig
How should you handle receiving a text at the dinner table or receiving a call while waiting in line at a store? Is it "okay" to breakup with a girlfriend or boyfriend via e-mail? Via text? Via Facebook? What are the rules for using technology? Are t...
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Twilight 
A Study for Youth
By Katherine M. Douglass
A study on a movie about . . . vampires? That's right! As Christians we are called to be in a world filled to the brim with cultural phenomena and if Twilight does not count as a phenomena, nothing will.Based on the first book in a four book series b...
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By Kate Ott
Technol ogy shapes us just as much as we shape it. In this one- session youth study, "What Digital Story Are You Writing?" high schoolers will take a critical look at their online identities and how they compare to their identities in their Christian...
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