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...questions they are asking are as old as the Bible itself--and a very traditional part of being teenagers. "During high school, kids have a developmental task," explains Debra Haffner, director of the Religious Institute for Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing, in Norwalk, Conn. "They have to develop their own ideals. They need to answer the questions 'Who am I? What do I believe?' It's not uncommon to try on different sets of values, even to 'church shop.' It's the beginning of an ongoing search for meaning...
Religious and spiritual media have, in many ways, become the new missionaries. And they are traveling to wherever their prospective converts live. That means old media are not enough. They have to get wired. "This generation turns to the Internet for everything," says the Religious Institute's Haffner. Guideposts for Teens has added a website, gp4teens.com as have other Christian magazines. Guideposts' print edition for younger kids was completely replaced by an online version. It averages about 2,000 unique visitors...