It is youth group night. You've just finished pouring out yourself once again for what you love. You've had the range of emotions that a night with teenagers can bring. Then...you spot them. You see them...

We found this incredible Yaconelli article in the YWJ archives recently. It's so good, you have to read it.

How do we help people understand what serving in youth ministry is really all about? I think a major hurdle in getting people to step up and invest in youth is their perception of what being a youth leader enta...

What is your theology of suffering? My personal Bible study tells me that suffering will happen. My life experiences back support that. Suffering should not catch us off guard, but a spot check of any ch...

The Internet and social media was filled with many opinions, disagreements and hate-filled posts about the recent murders in Charleston at Mother Emanuel by white supremacist Dylann Roof. It was the hot topic f...

Two Tennessee teens died from drinking a mixture of methanol-based racing fuel and Mountain Dew, popularly called dewshine. The drink can be intoxicating—but obviously consuming racing fuel is never a goo...

Three high schoolers from Newtown, Conn., have been arrested in a sexting scandal with a new wrinkle: Not only were they distributing sexually explicit pictures of classmates, but selling them—allegedly f...

Is it wrong for colleges to ask applicants if they've ever been arrested? It sure is, according to the activist group Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Yet that doesn't stop many colleges and unive...

Each June, we graduate about 35 seniors from the youth ministry. At the same time, we also have approximately 35 seventh graders enter the youth ministry. With them, 35 new parents flood in, many who have no id...

For years—generations, actually—Mattel's popular fashion doll Barbie has been under assault for her outrageously unrealistic body. However, when Barbie sales sank 20 percent between 2012 and 2014, M...