Anne E. Streaty Wimberly, Sandra L. Barnes and Karma D. JohnsonJudson Press, 2013, 224 pp., $12.81As I was reading Youth Ministry in the Black Church: Centered in Hope, I said to myself, "Yes! This is the book ...

Brock Morgan The Youth Cartel, 2013, 160 pp., $11.85 Culture is rapidly changing, and we must be able to engage culture for the sake of the gospel. Brock Morgan, in his new book Youth Ministry in a Post-C...

Nearly six in 10 children in Great Britain have joined a social network by the age of 10, though most such networks prohibit someone from joining until age 13.According to a survey by KnowTheNet, a British onli...

A new Internet fad—wherein people record themselves drinking copious amounts of alcohol often mixed with other substances—is being blamed for the death of two men in Ireland. The game, called Neknom...

Facebook has introduced a new feature that allows users to choose a different gender identity than the typical male or female. In fact, they can choose among 56 options."There's going to be a lot of people for ...

Want more friends? Drink more alcohol. That's the unfortunate conclusion of new research from the country's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service's Administration's Center for Behavior Health Statistics and...

Experts long have told us that kids and teens need their sleep—more sleep than adults do. Now, there's more reason to encourage youth to get some extra shuteye. According to a study from the University of...

Sixteen teens were rescued from sex trafficking in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut in the days leading up to the Super Bowl, according to law enforcement officials. The teens were mostly girls between the ...

Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died Feb. 2. His body was found with a needle stuck in his arm and at least 65 bags of heroin in his apartment. He left behind three children, ages 10, 7 and 5.Hoffman...

IntroductionFor hundreds of years, the church has been an outright leader in religious education efforts. From the epistles of the apostle Paul to the founding of numerous universities in the middle ages to the...