We model irresponsible financial habits within our youth ministry, then wonder why our students are so affected by consumerism. Practical alternatives aren’t as hard as you think. In fact, they can be kin...

Many of the financial pitfalls people fall into as adults could have been prevented with some solid financial education as children.     Lori Mackey, author of Money Mama & The Three Little P...

The main thing some youth ministry workers say about money is that they don't have enough. According to the latest salary survey in Group Magazine, the average base salary for a U.S. youth worker is $32,500. ...

    Quick: Who was the most famous and successful artist of the 20th century?     If you said Picasso or Warhol, you may have forgotten about a cartoonist named Charles Schulz, who at...

    Sing along if you know it: “Flintstones, meet the Flintstones …” My guess is you could remember the lyrics up to “… page right out of history.” If you made it...

I was shocked. On the phone was the mother of a youth ministry student who had graduated from high school three years ago. I hadn’t seen the young woman since then, and the parents didn’t attend our...

Way back in the early 1980s (it seems like another world now), I was playing on the tennis team at a small college in West Virginia, attending the Inter-Varsity college fellowship, studying history, and working...

Ryan Boatright, a 138-pound potential basketball star at the University of Southern California, is currently undersized to play point guard for a major college. But give the kid a break: He’s just 14. &n...

“If you just have enough faith, you can have all the wealth in this world you could ever want,” promises one high-profile, high-energy preacher.     “Those who would truly follow ...

Students at Dickinson College are still smarter than the average on-campus washing machine, but the margin may have been cut a bit this year with the introduction of the college’s new eSuds system. The co...