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Faith Formation: Pop Culture

Resources including: Children & Family Curricula & Storytime; Confirmation/Affirmation of Baptism; Denominational Resources; Tween & Teen Mental and Spiritual Health; Sexuality & Identity; and Online/At-Home Tech

Books

100 Spiritual Movies to See Before You Die (Zukowski)     The AI Mirror     Always On: Practicing Faith in a New Media Landscape (Theology for the Life  of the World): Gorrell, Angela Williams: 9781540960092: Amazon.com: Books     Are You Still Watching?: Using Pop Culture to Tune In, Find God, & Get Renewed for Another Season     Beyond the Screen: Youth Ministry for the Connected But Alone Generation  -     By: Andrew Zirschky     Big Brain Bible Games | Baker Publishing Group     Christmas on the Screen | Reviewing the Evolution of American Spirituality (Zukowski)     Everybody's Protest Novel     Fear Not!          God's Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible     The Gospel of Loneliness (Wolter)     Grace and Gigabytes: Being Church in a Tech-Shaped Culture     Hollow Faith: How Andy Griffith, Facebook, and the American Dream Diluted the Gospel By Stephen Ingram Cover Image     The Holy and the Hybrid: Navigating the Church's Digital Reformation     IRL: Finding Our Real Selves in a Digital World     Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and  Fractured a Nation: Kobes Du Mez, Kristin: 9781631495731: Amazon.com: Books     Like Ability     The Living Dead     Lurking Under the Surface: Horror, Religion, and the Questions That Haunt Us     Momfluenced                  Poor Technology: Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty     BL_PsalmsOfMyPeople_Cover_9781506479026c     Reading the Margins: Encounters with the Bible in Literature     A Sacred Storm | When God Speaks through Radical Disruption (Jones)          Through the Lens of Whiteness     Undercover Prophets     What Would Jesus See: Ways of Looking at a Disorienting World

Blogs, Podcasts & Articles

Loneliness, Vulnerability, and the Search for Connection

Springtide Research discusses Netflix’s Queer Eye, Season 7, Episode 1: “Queer Eye for the Lambda Chi!” This discussion centers on the episode’s focus on vulnerability and listening for young men, and expands into an examination of how vulnerability and relationship go hand in hand with young people’s spiritual and religious experiences.

Access the panel here.

 

Interfaith PanelDrawing from the spiritual and religious themes in the film adaptation of Judy Blume’s cherished novel Are you There, God? It’s Me, MargaretSpringtide Research's interfaith panel of reverends and rabbis takes a closer look into the film, commenting on the timeless lessons we can learn from Margaret, offering advice to parents facing their own religious trauma, and sharing how to guide young people who are exploring their religious and spiritual identities amid different faith journeys.

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Wakanda Forever” offers a beautiful and unsatisfying story

The new “Black Panther” movie tells the stories of grief and White supremacy without offering easy answers. The result was a story that was real and sometimes unsettling, writes Brooke Scott. (This article includes discussion questions.)

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by Justin Bowers; CYMT

Helping teens resist oppression online by Rev. Dana Neuhauser, racial justice organizer for the Minnesota Annual Conference UMC

Celebrating All Saints and All Souls with Pixar by ; we can now add Soul to the list of excellent movies to share and explore.

Trainings & Webinars

WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE FASHION?

EARTH DAY 2025 focuses on Fashion for the Earth. Discover videos and other resources for:

  • A 'What is Sustainable Fashion?' discussion
  • Sign the Petition: The Fashion Industry Must Change
  • Get the Facts
  • What You Can Do
  • Test Your Knowledge/Take a Quiz
  • And Toolkits for:
  • How to Swap for the Earth
  • How to Sustainably Shop for Your Clothes
  • How to Care for Your Clothes
  • How to Create a Capsule Collection
  • Join EarthDay.Org's Campaign: My Planet My Closet - submit your own video
  • AND MORE!!

Urbanization and Its Impact on Youth Culture with Efrem Smith

Urban culture in its various forms is impacting youth culture as a whole. Through urbanization, suburbs are becoming more like cities and rural areas like suburbs. Through social media, hip hop culture and multi-ethnicity is having a tremendous influence as well. 

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In Our Library - Children

God and Goodnight Moon | Finding Spirituality in Storybooks for Children     Image 1     Listening for God: Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith, Volume 1  -     Edited By: Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins    By: Paula Carlson     

Children Learn What They Read: Seeing the Presence of God through Selected Storybooks

In Our Library - Adults

Coffee with Jesus          God in the Movies | Baker Publishing Group          HOLY HEROES EB     main product photo     Meeting God in Virtual Reality: Using Spiritual Practices with Media  (Convergence Series.): Blythe, Teresa, Wolpert, Daniel: 9780687043811:  Amazon.com: Books     Movies Are Prayers          the-shack-book-md