Children who come from broken homes are more likely to be obese, according to a new study out of Norway. Researchers studied about 1,000 third-graders, about 20 percent of whom were classified as obese. However...

The 12-year-old girl who nearly was sacrificed to Slender Man by her preteen friends is back at home, recovering from 19 stab wounds.The girl, whose name has been withheld, was attacked May 31 by Morgan Geyser ...

Did you ever think about the fact that non-Christian faiths also have youth ministry? I didn't, until reading Youth Ministry in a Multifaith Society: Forming Christian Identity Among Skeptics, Syncretists ...

A little more than a year ago, I went with my family to an event that I never would have gone to a year prior. It was a fundraiser for a family wanting to adopt a child from another country. We walked into the ...

The times they are a-changin', Bob Dylan sang in 1964, and he was more than right. A lot has changed since then—in the world and in the church. The biggest change culturally is the transition from moderni...

A young person's faith is sure to grow stagnant without a solid foundation in God's Word and a true passion for Him. Young people in today's world desperately need and crave a close relationship with God. As I ...

When it comes to consuming onscreen media, what country is No. 1? Not the United States. Actually, when you tabulate the average time people consume media through their televisions, computers, smartphones and t...

The U.S. average gamer spent about 6.3 hours every week playing video games in 2013, according to research from Nielsen. That's an increase of about 36 minutes since 2012, and an hour and 12 minutes longer than...

More than half of young teens—those between the ages of 12 and 15—are physically unfit, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In fact, only 42 percent were found to...

For decades, perhaps centuries, super-smart, super-ambitious kids dreamed of going to an eastern Ivy League school for college, particularly Harvard University, the United States' oldest and most prestigious sc...