Youth Culture Update: More Moms Unmarried

Young moms are more likely to be single than married, according to a study by John Hopkins University. In fact, one-third of women ages 26 to 31 were married at the time of the birth of all their children.The s...

Youth Culture Update: Becoming Uncool

Popularity isn't forever, according to new research published in the June 2914 issue of Child Development.Researchers kept tabs on nearly 200 people, beginning when they were 13 and continuing through age 23. T...

Youth Culture Update: LOL, FBI

The FBI has an 83-page, 3,000-word dictionary on Internet slang, helping its agents in deciphering the strange world of online communication and (according to the document) "keeping up with your children and/or...

Youth Culture Update: Youth Packing eCigs

There are about 30 million ecigarette users across Europe, according to study, with the majority between the ages of 15 and 24. The study, published in the journal Tobacco Control, and previous research has fou...

What Do You See?

"Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions" (Acts 1:17, NRSV).In 1983, while I was serving as a student pastor in rural North Carolina, there was a young girl in our yout...

Youth Ministry in a Multifaith Society

Len Kageler and Chap ClarkIVP Books, 2014, 224 pp., $13.89If you pick up my copy of Youth Ministry in a Multifaith Society by Len Kageler, you'll notice that nearly every page in the last three chapters is...

Youth Culture Lesson: Finding Faults

Who or What Defines Who You Are?Get downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat HappenedThe Fault in Our Stars, based on the young adult novel by John Green, was the No. 1 mov...

Welcome to Camp Comfort

Some mothers in New York perhaps are starting a new trend among overprotective helicopter parents. Rather than sending their children off to summer camp with a few changes of clothes, a flashlight and mosquito ...