Wonderful article in Muskogee Phoenix
May 19, 2008 | articles, interviews
I love it when I meet someone from my own hometown that has read one of my books, or an article, and they stop to talk about it. This is an article in the Muskogee Phoenix published on Sunday. Thanks, Phoenix!
Local author to be interviewed live on “The Harvest Show”
Author Suzie Eller of Muskogee believes that youth culture shifts at an amazing rate.
She will share her opinion during an interview on “The Harvest Show” on LeSEA global broadcast network, which reaches 46 million homes in North America, and will air three times on Friday.
“I’m just excited to have my seven to 10 minutes to talk about my passion for faith and for today’s teen,” Eller said. “And then it’s back to work on my next deadline.”
Eller is the author of five books and hundreds of articles, and a parenting and youth culture columnist.
“Today’s 13-year-old experiences unique pressures, technological advances, and issues than the college freshman who was 13 just five years earlier,” Eller says.
Those changes also occur in their search for faith. She believes that many teens are looking for someone to show them faith, not necessarily to talk at them about it.
Eller travels around the nation speaking at parenting and youth conferences, and recently wrote “Making It Real: Whose Faith Is It Anyway?”
“I see so many teens, and college students sorting through their faith, trying to determine what they believe versus what is tradition or habit. I was not raised in a Christian home so knowing God vs. not knowing God was as different as white and black for me, but it was a lot more challenging for my children who were in church their whole life.”
Eller’s newest book, “Making It Real,” allows a teen to ask tough questions, and to make their faith a personal venture between themselves and God.
A recent statistic from Barna states that more than 80 percent of Christian teens abandon their faith for a time after they leave home. Eller understands that statistic.
“A teen’s faith will be challenged. If they dig deep to find answers and all they pull up is someone else’s belief system or 18 years of sermons, or fun times in youth group, it may not be enough. This book gently shows a teen how to explore their own faith, and allow it be a personal journey in their heart and every day life.”
Eller is also a mentor to freshman girls in four area high schools in the Muskogee Women of Vision program. She is the founder of Real Teen Faith, a contributing writer to Today’s Christian Woman, and youth culture columnist for several leadership magazines. Other books for teens or young adults written by Eller are “Real Teens, Real Stories, Real Life” (translated into Portuguese later this summer) and “The Woman I Am Becoming.” Eller’s books are carried locally by Ruth’s Christian Book Store.
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