With so many girls and women longing for the perfect body—some fostering eating disorders in order to do so—Rehabs.com is showing its site visitors how impossible it truly would be to look like Barb...

Youth are more likely to buy a house than previous generations were, according to a study by Coldwell Banker Real Estate. A full quarter of couples ages 18 to 34 purchased a house together before they took thei...

Seventeen-year-old Timothy Doner has become a minor YouTube celebrity—not by stacking cups, juggling or even singing a particularly grating song, but by speaking. It's not the sort of thing that typically...

In the wake of the Boston Marathon tragedy, many wonder whether the ubiquity of camera-equipped smartphones helped or hurt in the aftermath. People were horrified by some of the images taken at Boston, and many...

I cannot remember the last time I planned a game for my group. However, from my 32 years of youth ministry, there was a time when games were the draw to start any meeting—so much so that from1984 to 1985 ...

Karl Barth is the most influential and towering theological figure of the 20th century. This bespectacled, Swiss thinker single-handedly laid a devastating attack against the theological liberalism that was dom...

Every scary movie I've ever seen is littered with it—suspense. There is a scene where the villain is hiding, and even though you know exactly where he is, you watch eagerly on the edge of your seat waitin...

Haiti is a nation where many people are suffering dire poverty. Mission: Haiti is one of the Christian organizations serving Haitian residents by offering basic medical care, help with construction an...

People strive to be the best, even in the church; but in the world of youth ministry, what does it mean to be, use or do the best? Is being the best unhealthy or God-honoring? To find out, we spoke with four ex...

Game: Begin the meeting time by playing the Hunger Games game described in the previous lesson, but with one minor change. In addition to finding the survival items (food and water), students also must fin...