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Joel PJ is blogging!! Fully sick. I think I’m the one who pushed Joel to blog. He keeps sending me links all day and each time he sent one I’d say “You really should start a blog Joel…”
His first post is sweet. It’s about sharing Jesus with some nutty woman handing out KEVIN07 while waiting for a train. Good stuff.
Definitely worthy of subscribing.
Looking forward to more…
Above is a live version. Here is the film clip version.
Only three more sleeps until the election. Awesome! When election time comes we normally get booted out of our hall for youth group so that they can set up the polling booth. During term 1’s state election we ran junior youth group in the school’s canteen area. Had a dodgeball tournament – fully sick! So hopefully this election day eve will be as fun.
On our junior youth camp on the weekend, I heard more political discussion from junior high than I ever have before! Quite remarkable… you should have seen the food fight across the tent between Team Kevin and Team John! I made a claim that when you’re a teenager you’re political views are not your own by inherited from your parents.
I was interested to read today an article in the SMH all about Party Inheritance. According to an ANU study 70% of young people align themselves to the party of their parents.
I have been voting for 10 years in local, state and federal elections. I still vote with my parents… but that vote is increasingly becoming my own. I’ve claimed for a long time that I’d be willing to swing, I just haven’t yet! Even if my political views are now my own, I think it’s difficult to separate my views from the views of my parents that have shaped my upbringing.
How much are you still shaped by the political views of your parents?
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