Episode 1 - Understanding Youth Culture
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Questions for youth team
- Where are your teens in terms of sexuality? What are the specific ideas they hold to?
- What’s the impact of these ideas on individuals, gay or straight?
- How might you begin to respond to the messages of our culture?
The Ultimate Heartstopper
Blog | 3 mins
Different for Boys: A Review
Reviews | 3 mins
Help - I’m a Youth Leader!
Blog | 4 mins
Episode 2 - Responding to Culture
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Questions for youth team
- Which of the ideas raised in this episode do you find most challenging to teach on? Why?
- Which of these ideas is most relevant for/prevalent among the teens in your group?
- How can you begin to teach on these ideas?
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A Review
Reviews | 3 mins
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: A Review
Reviews | 4 mins
A Better Story: A Review
Reviews | 3 mins
The Courage to Warn
Blog | 3 mins
Episode 3 - Teaching the Bible
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Questions for youth team
- Do you have a good understanding of what the Bible says about sexuality? If not, what’s your next step in learning?
- How can you teach this in a way that doesn’t compromise on truth, but also extends grace and sensitivity to your various listeners?
- How would you answer the common questions raised in this episode? (Perhaps practice on each other!)
What Is Sexuality for?
Articles | 7 mins
Straight Youth Leader, Please Teach on Sexuality
Blog | 3 mins
Evaluating the Top Affirming Arguments
Articles | 6 mins
Evaluating the Top Biblical Affirming Arguments
Articles | 5 mins
Episode 4 - Pastoral Support: The Wider Community
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Questions for youth team
- What do we need to do to prepare ourselves as youth leaders?
- What do we need to do to prepare our youth group?
- How can we engage well with parents and carers?
- How can we engage well with our church leaders?
Episode 5 - Pastoral Support: Caring for SSA Teens
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Questions for youth team
- Has there been a time when you have had to share something deeply personal with someone else? Were you uncertain or afraid about how they might respond? What about those experiences might help us to respond well to teens who come out to us?
- How have we responded to teens who have come out to us in the past? What can we learn from these experiences?
- How are we discipling our teens on an ongoing basis? What else could we do?
Coming Out – Some Advice for Christians
Articles | 5 mins
Living In A Gray World: A Review
Reviews | 3 mins
What Does God Really Say About Sexuality? (Explore Questions #1)
Podcasts | 32 mins
Should Conversion Therapy Be Banned? (Questions No One Wants To Answer #1)
Podcasts | 30 mins
Episode 6 - Thinking About Transgender
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Questions for youth team
- Do we have a good understanding of sex, gender and transgender? If not, what’s our next step in learning?
- Do we have a good understanding of what the Bible says about sex, gender and identity? If not, what’s our next step in learning?
- Are we a welcoming, safe environment for teens who are trans-identifying, who have questions about gender generally or their own specifically? How can we become more so?
- What practical conversations (e.g. around names, pronouns, bathrooms, sleeping spaces) do we need to have?
Trans-Identification Amongst Teens (Church Leaders' Webinar)
Talks | 58 mins
Transgender: An Introduction for Parents and Youth Leaders
Talks | 90 mins
Parenting a Child Questioning Their Gender Identity
Articles | 6 mins
A Parent’s Guide to LGBTQ+ and Your Teen: A Review
Reviews | 3 mins
Episode 7 - LGBT+ Youth and Mental Health
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Questions for youth team
For the episode:
- Do we have a good understanding of the main mental health issues our teens might be struggling with? (depression, anxiety, low self-esteem/self worth, self harm, eating disorders, suicidality, shame, addiction, etc.) If not, what’s our next step in learning?
- How can we provide a safe environment for teens to be honest about their pain/struggles?
- What practical things/resources should we put in place to equip us as a team and any youth who need help? (eg member of Ashleigh’s youth team did a bunch of research and created a brief document explaining various mental health problems and providing resources for helping with each)
For the series:
- What are your key takeaways?
- What should we continue to pray about?
- What’s your priority to do next?
LGBT and Mental Health: What’s the Link?
Articles | 8 mins
Does Christian Teaching Cause LGBT Mental Health Problems? (Questions No One Wants To Answer #5)
Podcasts | 36 mins
The Mental Health and Well-Being of Celibate Gay Christians
Articles | 5 mins
LGBTQ+ Suicide
Articles | 9 mins