A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today's World

by John Stonestreet, Brett Kunkle

Overview

We don’t have to lose the next generation to culture. In this practical guide, John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle explore questions including:

• What unseen undercurrents are shaping twenty-first-century youth culture?
• Why do so many kids struggle with identity?
• How do we talk to kids about same-sex marriage and transgenderism?
• How can leaders steer kids away from substance abuse and other addictions?
• How can we ground students in the biblical story and empower them to change the world? 

With biblical clarity, this is the practical go-to manual to equip kids to rise above the culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780830781249
Publisher:	David C Cook
Publication date:	01/01/2020
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	289,350
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

John Stonestreet is president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview and cohost of BreakPoint, the daily cultural commentary founded by the late Chuck Colson. John is the coauthor of Restoring All Things, Same-Sex Marriage, Making Sense of Your World, and A Practical Guide to Culture. John and his family live in Colorado Springs.
 
Brett Kunkle is the founder and president of MAVEN (maventruth.com), a movement to equip the next generation to know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty for the cause of Christ. He is an associate editor for the Apologetics Study Bible for Students and coauthor of A Practical Guide to Culture. Brett lives with his wife and five kids in Southern California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 13

Introduction 17

Part 1 Why Culture Matters

1 What Culture Is and What It Does to Us 25

2 Keeping the Moment and the Story Straight 41

3 A Vision of Success 59

Part 2 A Read of the Cultural Waters

4 The Information Age 77

5 Identity after Christianity 97

6 Being Alone Together 115

7 Castrated Geldings and Perpetual Adolescence 131

Part 3 Pounding Cultural Waves

8 Pornography 155

9 The Hookup Culture 169

10 Sexual Orientation 187

11 Gender Identity 205

12 Affluence and Consumerism 223

13 Addiction 239

14 Entertainment 259

15 Racial Tension 279

Part 4 Christian Worldview Essentials

16 How to Read the Bible 297

17 Why to Trust the Bible 309

18 The Right Kind of Pluralism 321

19 Taking the Gospel to the Culture 335

Notes 341

Editorial Reviews

A Practical Guide to Culture is smart, clear, and incredibly helpful for Christians trying to raise faithful, resilient children in a post-Christian—and increasingly anti-Christian—society. This is abook written by intelligent men who know how to relate big ideas to daily life in terms everyone can understand. When people ask me, ‘But what can we Christians do about the collapsing culture?’, I will emphatically recommend this book as the place to begin. I’m buying two copies: one for my family’s use and one for my pastor’s.”

Rod Dreher

Culture is dynamic and changing—and that change often comes in waves that threaten to overwhelm us. But as Christians, we’re able to secure ourselves to solid, unchanging truth in the chaotic ocean of culture. John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle show us how to navigate the tides and pass those skills on to the next generation.

Jim Daly

A Practical Guide to Culture is a profound, witty, and forthright manual written by two concerned dads who also happen to be two of the most effective worldview and apologetics experts of our day. Based on their deep experience working with tens of thousands of teenagers, John and Brett show how to stop giving in to a degrading culture that makes kids unhealthy and sad and start raising kids who love Jesus and live without fear and regret.

Jeff Myers

I wish John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle had written A Practical Guide to Culture years ago. As a parent and youth pastor, I was often concerned about the impact the culture might have on my children and students, and I wasn’t always sure how to address the challenges. John and Brett have written a hopeful, engaging book that will prepare parents, educators, and youth leaders to equip young minds. This isn’t just a survey of culture; it’s an active, purposeful, and thoughtful action plan. If you want your students and children to represent Christ in a fallen world as they thrive in their Christian walk, A Practical Guide to Culture is an essential guide.

J. Warner Wallace

Everyone who works with students and cares about their future needs this guide. It’s exactly what the title says: practical. John and Brett have filled this book with clarity, wisdom, and loving advice on the most important issues facing this generation.”

Eric Metaxas

Will the next generation be defined by the radical cultural shifts taking place, or will the culture be defined by a generation committed to the radical love, redemptive truth, and restorative grace of Jesus? In A Practical Guide to Culture, John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle provide a biblically based roadmap designed to assist a generation’s navigation through the difficult currents of relativism, decadence, and apathy, while simultaneously shining the light of Christ.

Rev. Samuel Rodriguez