The Pop Culture Parent: Helping Kids Engage Their World for Christ
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Parents often feel at a loss with popular culture and how it fits in with their families. They want to love their children well, but it can be overwhelming to navigate the murky waters of television, movies, games, and more that their kids are exposed to every day. Popular culture doesn’t have to be a burden. The Pop Culture Parent equips mothers, fathers, and guardians to build relationships with their children by entering into their popular culture-informed worlds, understanding them biblically, and passing on wisdom.
This resource by authors Jared Moore, E. Stephen Burnett, and Ted Turnau provides Scripture-based, practical help for parents to enjoy the messy gift of popular culture with their kids. By engaging with their children’s interests, parents can explore culture while teaching their children to become missionaries in a post-Christian world. By providing realistic yet biblical encouragement for parents, the coauthors guide readers to engage with popular culture through a gospel lens, helping them teach their kids to understand and answer the challenges raised by popular culture.
The Pop Culture Parent helps the next generation of evangelicals move beyond a posture of cultural ignorance to one of cultural engagement, building grace-oriented disciples and cultural missionaries.
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- Guides readers to engage with popular culture through a gospel lens
- Equips parents and guardians to build relationships with their kids by entering into their popular culture
- Provides Scripture-based, practical help for parents to enjoy the messy gift of popular culture with their children
- Why We Need Pop Culture Parents
- The Purpose of Popular Culture
- Gospel-Centered Parenting
- The Problem with Hands-Off Parenting
- The Problem with Endless Childproofing
- Five Simple Steps to Engage Popular Culture with Your Children
- Discerning Your Child’s Hidden Heart
- Introducing Popular Culture to Young Children
- Practice Session for Young Children: Frozen
- Exploring Popular Culture with Older Children and Preteens
- Practice Session for Older Children: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Engaging Popular Culture with Older Teens and Young Adults
- Practice Session for Older Teens: Fortnite Battle Royale
- Final Ideas on Pop Culture Parenting
“I am grateful this compelling book has come along just in time to provide so much winsome, balanced, gospel-centered wisdom to help parents in shepherding our children’s hearts toward godliness even as myriad attractive voices clamor for the throne of their hearts.”
—Jeff Robinson, Author; lead pastor, Christ Fellowship Baptist Church, Louisville, KY; senior editor for The Gospel Coalition
Turnau, Burnett, and Moore show us in The Pop Culture Parent that we can teach our children how to engage the culture in such a way that they discover what is beautiful about it, spot its idols, and connect the dots between it and the gospel.
—Rhyne Putman, Associate professor of Theology and Culture, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
Here’s an impressive and engaging resource for the church: circumspect, broadly conversant, practical, and edgy. All in all, it’s well suited not only for use in the home but also for group study within the broader family of faith.
—Mark Coppenger, Retired professor of Christian Philosophy and Ethics, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Title: The Pop Culture Parent
- Authors: Ted Turnau, E. Stephen Burnett, Jared Moore
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781645070665, 1645070662
- Resource ID: LLS:POPCULTUREPARENT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-04T23:15:05Z