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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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Enchanted

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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Evan Almighty

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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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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I Am Legend

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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Juno

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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Movies such as New Moon often address dark themes and images in a very ■romantic light (depression, violence, eternal life, self-esteem, and heartbreak). But ■while many of these themes are popularized in fiction, they can also be found in ■Christianity's most popular book of all time--the Bible.

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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Paper Clips: Changing the World . . . One Classroom at a Time

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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While the movie Twilight may not seem to be an obvious choice for a ■movie themed Christian youth study, the film does provide an opening for teens to ■examine the weakness portrayed by the main female character Bella.

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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