2022 MS and HS Summer Youth Retreat

Address current events (e.g. House Bill 1557 "Don't say Gay Bill", Disney Supporting it, Schools Protesting it, Roe v Wade overturning, etc.)

Introductory Topic
- What is Truth?
- What is Absolute Truth?
- Where do we get Truth?
- What about "that's just your opinion"?
- Source: https://youtu.be/OGTdSbdmHxs
Topic Ideas:
- Homosexuality
  - 2022 SMF College book
  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TksBVO2JWc
- Transgenderism
- Feminism
  - Roles of men vs. women in church and society
  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bFj9Nn88kc
    - This is a very good talk from Atlanta titled "The Church has a Woman Problem??"
    - It is very basic about the equality of honor and dignity, and the difference in roles
    - This is a 3-part series and the other parts will come in the coming weeks
- Racism
  - Black Lives Matter (BLM)
- Secularism
- Abortion
  - Listen to Stephanie Gray...
  - Most Anti-Abortion arguments center around the fact that the Embryo is a living human being and terminating him/her is murder. Unfortunately, now many pro-abortion people are saying "yes the Embryo is a living person, but the right for bodily autonomy is more important" - how do we answer that? - Stephanie Gray addresses that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGPudL_GQ3Y
- Social Justice
  - I wonder what St Basil says in "On Social Justice"
Concluding Topic:
- Supporting these things while not doing them...
- What about love? Etc.
- Romans 1

HG Bishop Youssef convention up north (2 lectures about homosexuality and truth)
- link to come
Feminism and Tradition
- Fr Lawrence Farley