With a president they view as more sympathetic to their causes, progressive religious activists are pushing the new Obama administration for aggressive action -- on poverty, the environment and social justice i...

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Apparently, President Barack Obama thought that Jessica Simpson's weight was something he needed to make fun of during his pre-Super Bowl interview with Matt Lauer on NBC Sunday. Seriously. Obama called Jessica...

Michael Phelps quickly acknowledged his poor judgment after a photograph showing him inhaling from a marijuana pipe was published Sunday in a British newspaper.Phelphs Makes Poor Choice ...

In French-Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand’s 1986 movie Le Déclin de l’Empire Américain (The Decline of the American Empire), a professor observes that throughout history the decline of an ...

Most urban youth workers I know serve in a volunteer capacity, even the ones getting paid. The pay is usually so low they might as well be volunteering. Urban youth workers serve out of love, passion and convic...

I’m thinking today about the “span”—the difference between incoming sixth graders and graduating eighth graders.Last June, I said goodbye to my small group of six middle-school guys, wi...

Almost 20 years ago, I asked teens to send me a list of the five greatest pressures they face. One of the kids who responded was Sarah, a 16-year-old only child from New York. Her list was representative of the...

Ministry to Overstressed KidsThe Job or the CallMajoring in Misery ...

The story of my youth is one that may surprise many who have only met me as an adult. I was born to an extremely poor, large family and a drunk for a father. My parents eked out a living in the mountains o...