Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller

Today, I’d like to share with you a prayer from a little daily Scripture reading guide that I use titled “Seeking God’s Face.” This prayer is most timely for life in today’s world as each of us, youn…

One of the most dangerous aspects of today’s social media is exposure. Social media is a place where our kids will be constantly exposed, among other things, to dangerous ideas, addictive immoral con…

I often say that if I had a dollar for every stupid thing I did as a teenage boy, I’d be a rich man. The boys in my neighborhood fed off of each other with our foolishness, and issuing dares to each …

As the cultural conversation regarding transgenderism heats up, I want to connect a couple of dots for you today. You need to know that according to the latest research from Piper Sandler Companies r…

With over twenty-three million subscribers to his YouTube channel, actor and professional wrestler Logan Paul is a true celebrity influencer. Evidence of his influence among our kids is the popularit…

Elle Mills is a twenty-four year old who became a YouTube celebrity when she was only twelve-years-old. Over time, she had one-point-seven-million subscribers, one-point-eight-million total followers…

The word pornography is rooted in the Greek word porneia, which means to practice prostitution, sexual immorality, or fornication. In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul frequently used this word in …

I oftentimes think back to my college days and am struck by how much my eating and sleeping habits have changed since then! Rarely did I go to bed before eleven pm, and sometimes it was quite a bit l…

Parents of teenagers. . . few if any of us haven’t experienced the embarrassment a child feels when we show up to drop them off at school or pick them up at an event. It’s even worse if we throw out …

Kudos to the group of almost one hundred Hawaiian high school students who last month rallied at their state capital to request that state lawmakers take action against big tobacco. Knowing just how …

If you’re a regular listener to Youth Culture Today, I’m sure you’ve heard me quote the words spoken by media critic Marshall McCluhan several decades ago. He wrote, “We become what we behold. First …

Parents, the latest statistics on when teenagers see pornography should remind us that it’s not a matter of if, but when. Consequently, we should be talking to our kids about pornography at younger a…

It’s very easy to get swept up into the spirit of the times. Because we live in the midst of culture, we can easily live into the values of that culture without taking the time to consider whether th…

Earlier this year, Amy Neville, a mother from San Diego, testified before lawmakers regarding a tragedy that occurred in her life back in June 2020. Neville had gone into her fourteen-year-old son’s …

All this week we’ve been looking at how to push back on a youth sports culture that tends to value the wrong things, by living out our faith as sports parents.  Jesus said that it’s out of the overfl…

All this week we’re looking at how to push back on a youth sports culture that tends to value the wrong things, by living out our faith as sports parents. There’s much that we can learn from hockey h…

All this week we’re looking at how to push back on a youth sports culture that tends to value the wrong things, by living out our faith as sports parents.  Have you ever taken the time to stand back …

Vincent Fortanasce is a psychiatrist, coach and member of the Little League Hall of Fame. In his book, Life Lessons from Little League , he relates how he asked parents at the initial team meeting ab…