Youth Culture Update: More News Is Good News

Think good news gets buried in an avalanche of bad? That's not so true anymore. Positive stories are being reported more often. Thanks to social media, upbeat stories are being read, forwarded, liked and tweete...

Youth Culture Update: Watch Your Language!

The fact that so many youth spend so much time communicating online has been a blessing and a curse for their language skills, according to teachers.According to a study from the Pew Research Center's Internet ...

Youth Culture Update: The Rise of Twitter

Twitter, the social network that packages posts in 140-character tweets, continues to grow at a rapid pace. Since November 2010, Twitter has more than doubled its users, and now a full 18 percent of Americans u...

Lead Us Not into Temptation

We have a good friend, who, for years, has had a passion for youth ministry. He started as a lay leader, then became a paid leader. He knew this was his calling, and those of us who knew him concurred. He loves...