Childhood Obesity
At 5 years old, Jessica weighed more than 200 pounds. At age 7, her weight had increased to more than 400 pounds, labeling her the world's heaviest child. Her leg bones bowed under her large frame until eventua...
Purity
In a culture where sexualization is prevalent, what can youth workers do to promote purity for students?
Logan Rogers, youth worker with junior high ministry Heirborn, based in Clear Lake, Iowa, offered some...
How Advertisers Target Young People
"It's just not the holidays without them!" exclaims an Old Navy modelquin in a 2009 holiday commercial. She is referring to alpine hoodies, without which, in the modelquin world, Christmas apparently just...
Movie Intelligence
A family walks into the local theatre to partake in a family Christmas movie. The movie of choice is Disney's new adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Before the start of the movie, the parents caution their childr...
Skipping Church
An Oct. 8, 2007, study conducted by the Barna Group suggests that teenagers are some of the most religiously active people around. The study suggested nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of teenagers say th...
Young Adults Not In Church
Young adults not religious, still spiritual; girls in sports get better grades; more Losing Faith? -- Young adults are less prone to identify with a given religion than their parents and not very likely to a...
A Guide to God’s Word Translation
A Guide to God's Word Translation God's Word TranslationBaker Books, 2009, 36 pp., $14.99, BakerBooks.com A Guide to God's Word Translation gives a clear picture of translating the Bible according to the Princ...
Seeing Things
Seeing ThingsPatti HillB&H Publishing, 2009, 320 pp., $14.99, BHPublishingGroup.com Sometimes an unlikely novel comes along to deliver a messy message of heart-warming reconciliation and renewed hope, and ...
The Church of Facebook: How the Hyperconnected Are Redefining Community
The Church of Facebook: How the Hyperconnected Are Redefining CommunityJesse RiceDavid C. Cook, 2009, 240 pp., $12.99, ChurchOfFacebook.com This title suggests a study of Facebook and potential implications fo...
Organic Outreach for Ordinary People
Organic Outreach for Ordinary PeopleKevin G. HarneyZondervan, 2009, 256 pp., $14.99, Zondervan.com Almost every how-to book on personal evangelism clearly states reasons to share our faith and methods to accom...