rebelling against low expectations
Thought you guys might have missed this . . . Bump. It’s time once again for America’s favorite comic strip: The Adventures of Jiffy N’ Lou! Brought to you courtesy of the late New Attitude Magazine, Joshua Harris, and The Rebelution. Click on image to enlarge. Most of us have a “big talk” somewhere in our future. We can assume that a few of us guys have already...
When Alex and I were invited to speak to a church youth group while we were in Alabama. We were excited to have an opportunity to share some of the ideas we’d been developing here on the blog, including “The Myth of Adolescence” and “Ruining Our Lives With Fun.” The day of the “event,” Alex and I worked a long day at the Supreme Court, hopped in the...
We greatly appreciate the time our friend, Nathan Sheets, has spent in writing out the following encouragement for teens to get involved in the pro-life movement. Please take the time to read this short yet powerful guest post. Teens: Save a Baby — Volunteer! There are two groups of people that are most important to the pro-life movement. The first group is, quite obviously, post-abortive...
I think we’ve all spent a good deal of time pondering the Rebelution’s challenge to “Do Hard Things.” It’s a motto that any young person would be wise to adopt as his own. But as I’ve considered this concept, I’ve always had one significant question: what are these hard things? The tasks that first come to mind for me have always been big things. Things like changing the world, making feature...
Make sure you read the most recent update made at the end of this post, in response to several of our reader’s comments (updated Thursday, December 1st, 9:45 P.M. CST). The following comment was posted in response to our recent post, “Teens In The News: David Ludwig and Kara Borden.” Due in part to the attention our article has received, as well as the excellent opportunity for...
As an encouragement to our new readers to take advantage of our “Popular Independent Posts” section, located on our sidebar, we re-post the following October 6th article: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who became internationally known for his campaign a year ago to legalise gay marriage, said on Monday he considered wireless Internet access a fundamental right of all citizens...
Two weeks ago The Rebelution covered the impressive “rise of Michael Sessions” into the national spotlight following his apparent victory in the Hillsdale, MI mayor’s race. However, we updated that post with the news that Michael’s victory was pending a recount. Today we would ask all of you to join The Rebelution as we congratulate 18-year-old Michael Sessions on his...
Make sure you read the most recent update made at the end of this post (updated Saturday, November 26th, 4:15 P.M. CST). Big hat tip to fellow blogger and rebelutionary, Agent Tim, for bringing this story to my attention. After a frenzied, weeklong media blitz by television, radio, newspapers, and blogs, nearly anyone who regularly reads/watches/listens to the news will recognize the names of...
Several weeks ago, our good friend, and fellow blogger, Caleb Hayden, made an excellent post about young men and entrepreneurism. In response, a reader of both his blog, and ours, sent the following email, which we have been given permission to re-post it here on The Rebelution: Caleb, I am writing to comment on one of your recent blog posts, entitled Starting Young. Although I scarcely know you...
With torched cars, violence, and unrest filling the streets of Paris, Louis-Vincent Gave provided some particularly insightful analysis in his article, “The Arab Street Erupts: Why Paris and Why Now?” In the article Gave outlines the failure of government schools to assimilate poor and diverse ethnic groups into French society and persuasively points to the elimination of the military...
rebelling against low expectations
