It's no revelation that people will say things online they might hold back if talking with the same person face to face. Why is that? Experts say there's not just one reason.  Dr. Sherry Turkle, a psycholo...

Do teens engage in risky behavior because they don't know the risks or because they don't care? A new study suggests the former. Researchers at Yale University and Fordham University asked youths ages 12 to 17 ...

Facebook announced Oct. 4, 2012, that it has more than 1 billion users around the globe—about 40 percent of the world's 2.5 billion Internet users. "Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling a...

When leaders fall, ministries can be devastated. Moral failure is part of human nature, but misconduct by church and parachurch leaders can leave a lasting and bitter legacy among adults and youth who experienc...

I've been in youth ministry for 30 years, but my preferred role is being the mom to a bunch of now-grown adults.When they were teens, you could have called them juvenile delinquents; but juvenile delinquents is...

Every year, 1.1 million teens attempt suicide, 750,000 teens are victims of violent crime, 600,000 unwed teen girls get pregnant, and 291,000 teens drop out of school.In addition, 4.1 million teens drink alcoho...

One of the givens of being a youth pastor (in addition to the consumption of a good deal of pizza and the never-ending supply of free T-shirts) is that you probably will be asked to officiate at a fair number o...

Some years ago, Barbara came to see me for counseling. For as long as she could remember, her parents had argued and fought; and in her teens, each parent would pour out their problems to her with little awaren...

Kevin had been a friend a co-laborer for many years; but he suddenly seemed pensive, which was much different from the outgoing person I had known for years. I invited him to lunch where he began to unpack some...

Matt and Amy pause—often—when they tell the story of unsuccessfully managing their daughter Kayla's depression. After years of exasperation, Matt finally walked into Kayla's room holding a suitcase....