Ron Tinsley aka Pastor Tee is the Outreach Pastor at OCMC. He has over 35 years of experience working with children, youth, young adults and families. He has been a youth minister, youthworker, afterschool program director, summer camp director, high school teacher and college professor. Pastor Tee has a Masters Degree in Urban Studies from Eastern University. In 2022, he started doing research on adolescent development to assist with creating better initiatives targeting adolescents.
Tinsley on Theology & Technology seeks to listen and speak to parents and educators about the harmony and tension between consumption and just being, technology and humanity using a Biblical lens. Join me as I express my thoughts in writing on Substack (click the link) through my many observations, readings, experiences and travels.
By Pastor Ron Can healthy risk-taking help young people deal with failure and improve their mental health? All children are creative and risk takers in kindergarten. During …
By Pastor Ron Can young people develop into healthy adults without real world responsibilities? Since the end of the COVID pandemic, many large U.S. cities are struggling …
By Pastor Ron Young Black men are killing each other indiscriminately. We must respond. On Sunday, March 19, OCMC had a service…we did not stream. It …
By Pastor Ron American adolescents need access to same sex adults, not peers. Western youth are increasingly living through an extended adolescence. This is a time …
By Pastor Ron Native born American adolescents embrace hyperindividualism at a young age that often leads to loneliness. Ten years ago, I was a high school …
By Pastor Ron What if I told you that today’s youth oriented industries have helped extend adolescence with a profit motive? Youth oriented industries did not …
By Pastor Ron As Philly struggles with rising crime among our youth, I have been thinking a lot lately about the confusion and alienation American youth …