Discipling Teenagers Regarding Popular Music
Here are a few talking points for parents to help their teens think through popular music choices, including Taylor Swift’s newest album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”
The gospel gives us the freedom to admit everything isn’t okay, and reminding our children of this truth is a gift we can give them.

Here are a few talking points for parents to help their teens think through popular music choices, including Taylor Swift’s newest album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”
The gospel offers genuine acceptance and community, love and care, comfort and welcome. There won’t be any possibility of loneliness in the yet-to-come reality of God’s kingdom.
Jesus did not die for an algorithm, but for us: embodied souls made in his image. Shepherd the hearts of your children to see themselves as those whom Jesus valued enough that he die for us.
You are the message. You are the evidence. You’re the letter people read to know what Christ is like.
The longings the film taps into—identity, belonging, purpose—are exactly the places where the gospel speaks most powerfully and eternally.
The malaise and darkness we see consuming so many young people in the world can only be overturned if more of them embrace Christ’s exhortation to be the light.