Tim was an average fifth-grade student. He had a hard time paying attention, was tired of his church’s Sunday School program and was looking forward to middle school and something new.When sixth grade arr...

Forever Young--Growing Up and Growing Old in the 21st CenturyGet downloadable PDF.Get PowerPoint Presentation.About/Disclaimer.What Happened:Janet Cunliffe of Great Britain loves her 28-year-old daughter Jane. ...

I’ve been told that the notion of ministry assessment is not naturally attractive to today’s young, postmodern youth worker. Being 55 years old, I need to confess that is not how I’m wired. I&...

What impact am I having in the lives of the kids I serve?Some of the best youth workers constantly ask themselves this question, but the answers are hard to find. Much of youth work is a form of seed planting. ...

As we showed in our 2000 book, GenX Religion, many young people were giving up on the sterile, rationalist Protestant worship they were experiencing in their churches. We saw young people making radical switche...

Smoking in youth-rated movies has not declined despite a pledge two years ago by Hollywood studios to encourage producers to show less "gratuitous smoking," according to an anti-smoking group. The American Medi...

It is 20 years since Ding Zilin stood by her gate and waited for her son. "What came were students with tattered clothes and dishevelled hair, shouting 'they are killing people, they are shooting at people,'" s...

President Obama has spoken proudly of American Muslims, even referencing his heritage as the son of a Muslim man, ahead of his highly anticipated speech Thursday in Cairo aimed at shoring up relations between t...

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When a new crop of future business leaders graduates from the Harvard Business School next week, many of them will be taking a new oath that says, in effect, greed is not good.Nearly 20 percent of the graduatin...