Andrew Root teaches youth and family ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is coauthor of The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry (InterVarsity Press).
Earlier this year the Fox network, showing either the effects of the writers’ strike or the signs of social decay, offered a gem of televised exploitation—the kind that repulses you but you can’t help watching.
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