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This week’s Worldview Wednesday highlights headlines that swept the nation on February 13, 2023. The CDC released its most recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey for 2021, and the results show teen girls and lgbtq+ youth are in a major crisis and at risk. Kelly & Chelsea walk through the results, the proposed action steps, and how ridiculously insufficient they are. They provide five alternat...

In this Valentine’s Day episode, Kelly & Chelsea take a biblical look at the HEART and how it is impacted by media and technology. Proverbs 4:23 says to “guard your heart above all else, for everything you do flows from it.” How do we guard our hearts against negative online influence? What happens if our hearts are left unguarded? Today, we get to the HEART of all these ques...

In this Worldview Wednesday episode Kelly and Chelsea tackle just one headline. The veteran school communication monitoring software company Gaggle has deemed it now irrelevant and unnecessary to alert school administration when words falling under the LGBTQ banner are used in student communications. The company’s stated goal is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of every student but one mus...

In this episode we tie up our summary of some of the the intricacies of TikTok and its use by children and teens. Kelly & Chelsea cover 5 talking points parents can use to begin conversations around the value and dangers of the app. Kids will start asking for the app at young ages, so if you haven’t been asked yet – it’s coming. Prepare yourself with this episode! Five Talkin...

How does the pervasive influence of media and big tech companies impact childhood development and worldview ? You probably aren’t surprised to learn the impact is huge and (too often) destructive! This is precisely what Kelly & Chelsea address as they look at news headlines through the lens of Scripture in this week’s episode of Worldview Wednesday. Articles referenced: Childhood O...

Having established the power of TikTok’s algorithm in Episode 88, Kelly and Chelsea discuss the gravity of the impact Influencers on TikTok have on the hearts and minds of kids. They discuss the reality of the Dunning-Kruger Effect as young people with low knowledge but high confidence have the time, energy, and creativity to propagate their ideologies as influencers. Articles referenced: &#...

Our first headlines of 2023: Establishing values for the New Year, UK woman arrested for ‘thought crime,’ Sports are important until they aren’t at all, and Louisiana enacts law for age verification on pornography websites. Kelly and Chelse look at these news pieces through the lens of Scripture and parenting. *CLARIFICATION: It is stated that OnlyFans requires age verification &...

Just how powerful is the algorithm which determines what videos TikTok users will see? In this episode we discuss the recent push for algorithm transparency and TikTok’s response. All of that to help answer the question: how does this algorithm impact us as Christians? How should Christians approach an app like TikTok for ourselves or our children with what we know about the algorithm? We lo...

In today’s Worldview Wednesday Kelly & Chelsea talk about some popular headlines from December and how to think about them through the lens of Scripture. From the 2022 Word of the Year to AI image-generating app Lensa, climate change fear, and a Navy SEAL detransitioning are analyzed with a Biblical Worldview so that parents and young people can learn to think Biblically about the news o...

In today’s podcast, Kelly & Chelsea are joined by our resident technology expert, Ryan Newcom, to talk about Open AI’s public release of ChatGPT . We aim to answer the question of what this type of advancing technology means for parents, children, careers, and especially students – both now and in the future. If AI can write your essay for you, what will stop students from us...

In today’s Worldview Wednesday we look at headlines about (1) Pastors countering ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ with gospel-centered local library reading hour, (2) a new Virtual Reality therapy app for peer counseling, and (3) the drama associated with Balenciaga, their ad campaign with children and BDSM gear, and Kim Kardashian questioning her relationship with the company. Kelly and...

We are talking all things FIRST smartphone in this episode. We distinguish between a child wanting and needing a smartphone, the difference between needing to use a smartphone and full smartphone ownership, and the wrong reasons to give a child a smartphone. We dive deep into the responsibility and readiness that demonstrates a child is ready for smartphone ownership and how as a parent, you can s...

This is a special edition of Worldview Wednesday – all good uplifting stories that remind us of the importance of family, friendships, humility, and forgiveness. We still look at these stories with a Biblical Worldview but it’s definitely an episode with “all the feels”. Articles mentioned in this episode: Football Player Gives Homecoming Crown to More Deserving Student Ken...

A bonus episode to put a bow on our “No Porn November” Series. This episode is definitely one you SHOULD listen to with your kids! This is the audio from Kelly’s exegetical teaching assignment on Proverbs 7 for her Master’s class. There is also a video if you’d rather watch the 20-minute teaching. By the way, I cannot recommend The Master’s University more highl...

Continuing in our “No Porn November” series this episode exposes the app and platform “OnlyFans” and its role in pornography and sex work. Kelly and Chelsea walk through a few testimonies from college girls on the platform and their reality in light of Scripture. OnlyFans highlights the movement towards desensitizing “sex work” in our culture, which explains why...

This episode could be confusing to children and adolescents, please listen first before inviting your kids into the conversation. Kelly and Chelsea dive into the growing trend of Sugar Dating, exposing the lies that are fed to young women on social media and looking at the topic Biblically from the perspective of Christians, parents, and spouses. We can no longer look at fringe trends around sex i...

This episode could be confusing to children and adolescents, please listen first before inviting your kids into the conversation. Kelly and Chelsea take a biblical look at recent news headlines surrounding pornography culture. In this episode, they discuss accountability apps deemed “Shameware,” deep fake pornography on Twitter, and Pornhub getting kicked off Instagram for the second t...

This episode is for our adult, Christian audience. Kelly and Chelsea take a biblical look at God’s design for purity, what Scripture says about masturbation, and the cultural reality of online pornography’s use of violence and children for the entertainment of the masses – and how this grieves God’s heart. This episode will also equip every listener with at least ONE thing...

Today we think Biblically about headlines about McDonald’s “Adult Happy Meals”, Sara Michelle Gellar’s comments regarding not allowing her kids to use social media, and common misbeliefs about adolescents and sleep. Articles referenced in this episode: https://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/ct-food-adult-happy-meal-20221007-dznvzrtpbjampic4pasyje4jye-story.html https://www.y...

In this episode, we discuss how COPPA deems 13-year-olds to be “internet adults” and the implications of this 1998 policy on parenting. We highlight recent research that shows a frighteningly large percentage of kids under 13 who are regularly using social media apps as well as recent TikTok-challenge deaths in kids under 13. Articles referred to in the show: https://mottpoll.org/repor...

Today we think Biblically about headlines about Beyonce’s popular song ‘Church Girl,’ the NYU professor fired for his Organic Chemistry class being too hard, the state of theology in America, and Google offering a service to clear your personal information from their search engine. Our conversation circles around the need for parents to be actively living out their Christian fait...

Literacy rates are dropping and new data shows that children’s reading level is the lowest it has been in 20 years. In today’s episode, Kelly and Chelsea discuss the lack of reading of books compared to the abundance of screen media among children and adults today. What does Scripture say about reading? Why is reading essential for the Christ-Follower? And, most importantly, what role...

This week we are looking into news headlines about cyber-flashing, self-harm on Twitter, deciding the world is too scary to have kids, and Pornhub’s Instagram account. Whether or not your kids read these headlines, chances are that they are absorbing some of the ideas that surround these news headlines. It’s so important to have conversations with your child in order for them to think...

In this episode we discuss the increased legalization of recreational marijuana in the U.S. and the shockingly high potency of THC in modern marijuana compared to that of 30 years ago. These two factors have led to increased mental health concerns as well as psychosis diagnosis, especially in young people. Social media is vocal on its approval of recreational marijuana use while the Bible is silen...

In today’s episode, we are looking at a few recent news headlines and processing them through a Biblical worldview. We highlight children influencers and their online exploitation, Bhad Bhabie’s Scholarship Fund, Instagram’s new “less” feature for those under 16, and the growing trend of “#quietquitting”. We also throw in a bonus headline about research th...