We live in an instant society. We need gratification not now, but yesterday. Our desires come pre-packaged with impatience. Many people blame the proliferation of media for this, and there’s no doubt that...

I recently had the privilege of speaking to a group of teen girls at a Christian recovery center for youth coming out of addiction. I say it was a privilege because I may have been ministered to just as much as...

On many campuses, Christian groups are defined by what we don’t do (drink, smoke, etc.), don’t believe (evolution, etc.), and what we are against (abortion, homosexuality, etc.). Admittedly, during ...

The single most important issue we must address in youth ministry is identity formation. The reason? It’s the single most important issue in a teenager’s life. The place they land now, in terms of t...

As if being a teen wasn’t already tough enough, today’s youngsters have a new dilemma: Whether to allow their parents into their online network of “friends.”Moms and dads, who are growin...

Are today’s youth slackers? Hardly. Indeed, volunteerism among teens and young adults is surging, and the Internet is playing a huge role in all this activism.About 83 percent of incoming college stu...

It used to be that “Direct to DVD” releases were restricted to films with titles like, The Night of the Living Dead: The Musical! or The Land Before Time 27. No more. Many movie studios are concentr...

Two teenagers from Albany, Ore., recently were suspended for wearing crucifixes to school because the school believed they were related to gang activity. The teens—14-year-old Jamie Salazar and 16-year-o...

Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that made abortion legal across the United States, is 35 years old—twice as old as some of the advocates hoping to see it overturned.A 17-year-old California high-school ...

Several polls suggest youth today are more willing to cheat than their parents were, and they’re less likely to think there’s much wrong with it. With a rash of cheating scandals rocking various sch...