Jessica Alba Quote...
I was reading a recent interview with Jessica Alba today and stumbled upon this quote...
Frustrated, Alba sought other outlets for her adolescent energies, and even became a born-again Christian for four years. But she backed away from religion, she says, "when older men would hit on me, and my youth pastor said it was because I was wearing provocative clothing, when I wasn't. It just made me feel like if I was in any way desirable to the opposite sex that it was my fault, and it made me ashamed of my body and being a woman." She also vehemently disagreed with the church's condemnations of premarital sex and homosexuality, and was bothered by the lack of strong female role models in the Bible. "I thought it was a nice guide," she says, "but it certainly wasn't how I was going to live my life."
I wonder a few things about her experience - how old was she when she became a Christian? What ideas did she have/does she still have about sin in general? What denomination she was part of. I don't expect to ever have answers to those questions, I just find I'm curious.
The bigger picture is what kind of teaching are adolescents receiving now about these issues. For American girls, that issue of not having many early-Church female role models would seem to be a big one. The issue of homosexuality is becoming a bigger one inside and outside the church. In so many ways, I'm thankful to be done with the youth group, but I still bear scars of growth and hurt from those days. It's such a tender age and so much damage can be done. I have friends who are in the midst of working with teenagers. I commend them for their patience and wish them wisdom and guidance in their leadership of this age group.
I have no idea what conclusions can be drawn from this quote or this post, it was just an interesting one to me, and (as the title of the post says), I'm just putting it out there. Comment at will.
Peace. Out.
Frustrated, Alba sought other outlets for her adolescent energies, and even became a born-again Christian for four years. But she backed away from religion, she says, "when older men would hit on me, and my youth pastor said it was because I was wearing provocative clothing, when I wasn't. It just made me feel like if I was in any way desirable to the opposite sex that it was my fault, and it made me ashamed of my body and being a woman." She also vehemently disagreed with the church's condemnations of premarital sex and homosexuality, and was bothered by the lack of strong female role models in the Bible. "I thought it was a nice guide," she says, "but it certainly wasn't how I was going to live my life."
I wonder a few things about her experience - how old was she when she became a Christian? What ideas did she have/does she still have about sin in general? What denomination she was part of. I don't expect to ever have answers to those questions, I just find I'm curious.
The bigger picture is what kind of teaching are adolescents receiving now about these issues. For American girls, that issue of not having many early-Church female role models would seem to be a big one. The issue of homosexuality is becoming a bigger one inside and outside the church. In so many ways, I'm thankful to be done with the youth group, but I still bear scars of growth and hurt from those days. It's such a tender age and so much damage can be done. I have friends who are in the midst of working with teenagers. I commend them for their patience and wish them wisdom and guidance in their leadership of this age group.
I have no idea what conclusions can be drawn from this quote or this post, it was just an interesting one to me, and (as the title of the post says), I'm just putting it out there. Comment at will.
Peace. Out.
posted by Michelle at 3:38 PM
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