If they had their way, most teens probably would like to start their school days around, oh, 11 a.m. or so.While that's not likely to happen, the American Academy of Pediatrics says school-going youth could ben...

A frustrated mother has invented an app that makes it impossible for kids to ignore their parents' calls. Called "Ignore No More," the $1.99 app (available on Android) gives parents the ability to shut down a t...

The average middle-class family will spend nearly a quarter of a million bucks to raise a child born today, according to a study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That's before the kid starts applying fo...

Cambridge University, one of the most prestigious schools in the world, is soliciting would-be science majors to pursue a particularly tasty field of research and serve as the university's Doctor of Chocolate.N...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are poring over people's Facebook posts in an effort to determine what sort of social media language different people use. More than 75,000 people are participating...

Teens increasingly are shunning sunscreen, according to a study from William Paterson University in New Jersey. Just 56 percent of teens regularly used the burn-warding lotion, researchers say—a huge drop...

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Having spent the past eight years noodling in topics such as intentional community, spiritual formation and pilgrimage, it's not surprising that when I think about wholeness I can't help draw upon the image of ...

I'm not from the South, but I lived in Texas for a few formative years. One of my favorite things about Texas was the liberal use of the word y'all, or better yet the phrase all y'all. I never had heard that ph...

I remember the 4-mile drive to our small Baptist church when I was a child. We passed many other churches: Methodist, Lutheran, Roman Catholic and another Baptist church. Decades later, my drive to church (near...