The third of four sessions by Margunn Serigstad Dahle of Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communications, Norway, and Tony Watkins of Damaris Trust, UK, on popular culture at the Third Lausanne Congress, Cape Town, October 2010.
5. Youth . . . need the media for guidance and
nurture in a society where other social
institutions, such as the family and the
school, do not shape the youth culture as
powerfully as they once did.
Mueller
18. Do I have to change my name?
Will it get me far?
Should I lose some weight?
Am I gonna be a star?
I tried to be a boy
I tried to be a girl
I tried to be a mess
I tried to be the best
I guess I did it wrong
That’s why I wrote this song
This type of modern life
Is it for me?
This type of modern life
Is it for free?
21. I’m an assured, receptive, responsive
woman of substance. My sense of self
comes not from other people, but
from . . . from myself!? Can that be right?
Bridget Jones’s Diary
31. It is just the literature that we read for
‘amusement’, or ‘purely for pleasure’ that
may have the greatest and least suspected
influence upon us. It is the literature that
we read with the least effort that can have
the easiest and most insidious influence
upon us.
T.S. Eliot
Selected Essays (Faber and Faber, 1932)
52. The most important thing about the
communications we live among is that . . .
they saturate our way of life with a
promise of feeling.
Todd Gitlin
Media Unlimited (2002)
59. All who make idols are nothing,
and the things they treasure are worthless.
Those who would speak up for them are
blind; they are ignorant, to their own
shame.
Isaiah 44:9
59
62. We think that idols are bad things, but that
is almost never the case.The greater the
good, the more likely we are to expect
that it can satisfy our deepest needs and
hopes.Anything can serve as a counterfeit
god, especially the very best things in life.
Tim Keller
63.
64. We love idols.We trust idols.We obey
idols.We look to idols to love us and
provide value, beauty, sense of significance
and worth.
Tim Keller
65. Hell is just a freely chosen identity, based on
something else besides God, going on for
ever.
Tim Keller
66. Do not conform to the pattern
of this world. (Romans 12:1)
67. ?
What do we mean by personal identity? How
does the holistic biblical view of humanity
shape our identity?
How do the media affect the formation of
identity in young people in our own cultural
contexts?
How should we approach personal identity
and the media in relation to our preaching,
Christian communities and pastoral care?