About 37 percent of children and teens in the United States have been physically assaulted in the past year, according to a study by the Crimes Against Children Research Center. Nearly one in 10 was injured...

Gillian Share-Raab is the kind of thoughtful high school student we all should be trying to create in our ministries. While I have no idea about her faith orientation, she models good thinking. Gillian, a stude...

The First Church of Cannabis, based in Indianapolis, will hold its first service July 1, and its founder William Levin expects a huge turnout. While recreational marijuana use is illegal in Indiana, July 1...

Last year, 13-year-old Morgan Geyser and her friend Anissa Weier were arrested for stabbing a girl 19 times—apparently believing it would please the fictional online bogeyman Slenderman if they did so. No...

When it comes to college athletics, the big game can be big business. So perhaps it's no surprise that a number of colleges recently have been accused of helping their star athletes cheat. The NCAA punishe...

Youth have grown up with the Internet—some learning how to use their parents' iPhones before they learned to walk—but all that online awareness means that many cannot imagine life without Facebook...

A growing number of colleges and universities are warning students ahead of time about material that students might find objectionable or traumatizing. Oberlin College is advising its faculty to "be aware of ra...

We all know we shouldn't judge someone unless we walk a mile in their shoes, but sometimes walking in your own can be judgment enough. Nineteen-year-old Victoria Bascom and a friend hired a cab to take them ...

Children have a drinking problem—but in this case, it's not what you might think. (Unless, of course, you looked at the headline, in which case it totally is.) A new study, courtesy of the National Hea...

Whether they're connected to our computers, televisions or smartphones, we love our screens. We've also seen scads of studies suggesting that spending a lot of time in front of them isn't particularly healthy. ...