Your senior pastor walks into your office and unloads all of the junk he's heard people saying about you and the youth ministry. Your spouse tells you that the family wants you to look for a better job, one tha...

My plan was to go to a conference in Nashville a couple of days early as I always do. I would visit with my parents, who live in town; get the supplies together from Dollar Tree, Target and Hobby Lobby; and twe...

What if more churches were guiding students effectively into a healthy ontology instead of feeding them banal Christian catchphrases?

For the past several years, I have been hosting improvisational gatherings for youth ministers called Youth Specialties UnConferences. We held 12 events this past spring. They are the opposite of almost any oth...

Through many changes, I have learned a lot about what it takes to be faithful to my calling and honoring to my supervisor.

In yet another sign that we're only living in Kim Kardashian's world, the omnipresent reality star recently unveiled her own horde of emojis, called, "Kimojis." The little symbols include Kardashian's hand gett...

Some students at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, are calling the school's food offensive, and in more ways than one. Not only does it offend students' taste buds, but also their cultural sensitivity. Stude...

Alex Chediak Zondervan, 2015, 224 pp., $11.95 College tuition continues to climb, and it doesn't seem as if it will be coming down any time soon. College degrees are becoming necessary for having any kind o...

Tricia Goyer Zonderkidz, 2015, 237 pp., $12.99 Step back with Tricia Goyer as she presents history in a unique collection of stories in Prayers that Changed History. Highlighting 25 historical figures, Tric...

Eric Mason B&H Books, 2015, 208 pp., $14.27 There are so many people with great potential in various areas of life, but their potential is never reached. In Eric Mason's new book, Unleashed, he is bur...