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Youth Culture Update: ‘Embrace Life’

Singer Lana Del Rey is on record as being infatuated with death. Her musical inspirations include Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain, both of whom died at 27. Del Rey, 28, told London newspaper The Guardian, "I wish...

Youth Culture Update: Self-Motivated

A new study by Harvard's Graduate School of Education finds that middle school and high school students are more concerned with their own well-being than those of others.  About 80 percent of the 10,000 st...

Putting the Cape on the Underdog

Youth ministry is exciting! Between the games, music and energy, it's an area that allows people of all ages to be involved. Investing in teenagers is something companies, communities and churches inv...

Youth Culture Update: More Moms Unmarried

Young moms are more likely to be single than married, according to a study by John Hopkins University. In fact, one-third of women ages 26 to 31 were married at the time of the birth of all their children.The s...

Youth Culture Update: Becoming Uncool

Popularity isn't forever, according to new research published in the June 2914 issue of Child Development.Researchers kept tabs on nearly 200 people, beginning when they were 13 and continuing through age 23. T...

Youth Culture Update: LOL, FBI

The FBI has an 83-page, 3,000-word dictionary on Internet slang, helping its agents in deciphering the strange world of online communication and (according to the document) "keeping up with your children and/or...

Youth Culture Update: Youth Packing eCigs

There are about 30 million ecigarette users across Europe, according to study, with the majority between the ages of 15 and 24. The study, published in the journal Tobacco Control, and previous research has fou...

Youth Ministry in a Multifaith Society

Len Kageler and Chap ClarkIVP Books, 2014, 224 pp., $13.89If you pick up my copy of Youth Ministry in a Multifaith Society by Len Kageler, you'll notice that nearly every page in the last three chapters is...

Welcome to Camp Comfort

Some mothers in New York perhaps are starting a new trend among overprotective helicopter parents. Rather than sending their children off to summer camp with a few changes of clothes, a flashlight and mosquito ...