Comments on RETHINKING YOUTH MINISTRY: CULTURE WATCH: What's so great about "Glee?"

Sarah and Danny - thanks for sharing your thoughts...

2009-11-17T23:06:55.462-06:00

Sarah and Danny - thanks for sharing your thoughts. I love the show but I agree that it does seem to have a dual personality. In some ways it strives to be like a real high school experience and at other times it wants to go over the top (and some of sex and drugs content I think makes it inappropriate for younger viewers)but it is a welcome respite to most of the vast wasteland tv.

I enjoy the show ... most of the time. It's o...

2009-11-17T22:47:30.987-06:00

I enjoy the show ... most of the time. It's one of the two shows I currently watch (the other being Amazing Race). "Wheels" was a great episode, perhaps the best of the season. However, it almost seems to me as if they had two sets of writers who work alternate episodes, because one week the show is great, sensitive, and fun, and the next it is outlandish and way over the top in ridiculousness. After the "Wheels" episode was over, I realized that one of the reasons I liked it was because Schuster's wife was not in it.

I love Glee. I wish my high school experience was...

2009-11-17T20:29:38.654-06:00

I love Glee. I wish my high school experience was more like that - having a teacher that inspired me to be the best ME I could be.
I am now a teacher. Being a teacher like Will Schuster is why I became a teacher. To help those kids (teens) become the best unique individuals they can be. I am also a new youth ministry coordinator, and that is what I strive for.