{"id":341,"date":"2006-09-22T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2006\/09\/22\/on-rebelution\/"},"modified":"2006-09-22T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T07:10:00","slug":"on-rebelution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2006\/09\/22\/on-rebelution\/","title":{"rendered":"on rebelution"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tom Pryde highlights<\/a> this site in a recent blog: Rebelution<\/a><\/p>\n In their ‘about<\/a>‘ page, the writers of this blog describe the concept of what they are trying to do. I like some of what they have to say. This particular quote is interesting:<\/p>\n This change has really taken place over the last 100 years. To give you a brief historical overview, prior to the beginning of the twentieth century there were only two categories of age: childhood and adulthood. But the reforms of the early 1900s, outlawing child labor and mandating education through high school, created an unnatural and new category of age that we know today as “adolescence.” Even though young people still had all the desires and capabilities of adults, the opportunities and responsibilities of adulthood were delayed for four years or longer.<\/p>\n These opportunities and responsibilities have been replaced with relative idleness, and really, indulgence. Instead of serving as the launching pad of life, the teen years are seen as a vacation from responsibility. It’s crippling our generation. We call it the “myth of adolescence.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Aside from wondering if these young men would advocate the abolishing of child labour laws and mandatory high school (probably not), I think they are saying something good here. Young people need to be serious about life and Christianity and quit goofing off.<\/p>\n However… while I note that Tom expresses some misgivings about their name, “Rebelution”, he also says this:<\/p>\n In short, the Rebelution is a kindred spirit with NeoFundamentalism, just a generation apart. Rather than discourage it, I want to encourage and promote any Christian young person that strives for a godly rebellion against mediocrity and worldliness, against the low expectations of a worldly culture – even against a worldly christian culture. This is one way rebellion can be a very good thing!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ahh… Tom…<\/p>\n That line makes me sort of nervous about NeoFundamentalism, although I am sure you knew that I am nervous about it anyway. If you go to the Rebelution site, one click will take you here<\/a>, to a page about “The Rebelution Tour”, a conference put on by the young authors of Rebelution and their father, the pastor of Household of Faith Community Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n