A Practical Guide to Culture

A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today's World, by John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle, is a guidebook written for parents, youth pastors and educators raising and mentoring young people inside twenty-first-century culture. Across nineteen chapters, the authors examine the "unseen undercurrents" shaping how kids and teens see the world, and walk through specific, often difficult topics — gender identity and same-sex marriage, social media and technology, substance abuse and addiction — with the aim of equipping adults to engage these conversations rather than avoid them.

Rather than offering culture-war talking points, the book frames its approach as grounding young people in the biblical story so they can engage culture with confidence and compassion instead of fear. A companion volume, A Student's Guide to Culture, adapts the same material directly for readers aged 15-25.

Published by David C Cook, the book is aimed squarely at a Christian parenting and youth-ministry audience seeking practical, worldview-based guidance rather than academic cultural commentary.