While at Borders book store one day, I noticed they had totally rearranged the store. The whole middle of the store was now targeted to teenagers: graphic novels, manga, and shelf after shelf of books aimed at the "Young Adult" age group. This struck me as a hopeful sign that teens and tweens apparently are buying books and reading more.

A few weeks later, I read in Publishers Weekly magazine that, in 2008, the YA category had grown by 26% in terms of book sales – this was the strongest area of growth in all of the book-selling world!

Now add to this the fact that all the mega-zillion-dollar movies over the past few years had been targeted to this age group. Movies like Twilight, Iron Man, Narnia, Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, Harry Potter and the Threat of the Day, and on and on. Apparently, teenagers like media!

And then you have the gaming industry – larger even then the movie industry. There are virtually no games targeted to the 55+ market!

But, as a Christian it struck me that an overwhelming majority of this media is based on a false, unbiblical world-view. Even though much of it is not necessarily "bad" nearly all of it assumes some of the world's beliefs.

Surely there can be excellent Christian media that does not seek to undermine the faith of its audience, I thought. So I started doing some research on the ol' World Wide Web and, guess what? There is a lot of Christian entertainment out there! And much of it will appeal to teens and tweens.

Some of it is not very good. Let's face it. Even though we will honor the pure intentions, we want to see Christian media meet or exceed the world's levels. 

I hope this web site can help us all raise our sights higher: Teens to the cross of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Christian creatives to achieve excellence in everything we do. And producers and publishers to demand we reach those heights.

~ Clash, 2/1/2010