Obesity is a national problem, but not all states are equally fat. In Colorado, one in five residents is obese. In Mississippi, it's more than one in three. Southern states with fatty diets generally fared less...

When NPR invited everyone to participate in its "Best-Ever Teen Fiction" poll, 75,000 people responded, ranking the Harry Potter novels at the top of the list. The other 99 books on the list reveal that Young A...

Do you ever get the feeling we live life on a timer?Before we are born, there is a count down to our date of arrival, and from then it seems as if every moment in life is generically scheduled to meet societal ...

After 30 years of working in youth ministry in almost every capacity imaginable, I felt God opening a different ministry door for me. My wife and I sold most of our possessions, packed up our home, and headed t...

Neat Christianity is naïve Christianity. This is the Christianity that is best identified with young Christians and for many carries into adulthood. It begins when one becomes a follower of Jesus and has a...

Redemption: A Rebellious Spirit, a Praying Mother, and the Unlikely Path to Olympic GoldBryan Clay with Joel KilpatrickThomas Nelson, 2012, 224 pp., $24.99Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Ki...

Chris FolmsbeeZondervan/Youth Specialties, 2011, 763pp., $9.99When it comes to youth ministry leaders, there are two distinct challenges: recruiting and training. The former often takes up most of a youth worke...

Len KagelerGroup Publishing, 2011, 169 pp., $15.99While professional youth ministry has continued to grow numerically and in credibility, few would argue the vast majority of those working with youth are volunt...

Sara Anson VauxEerdmans, 259 pp., $24You're probably not alone if you associate Clint Eastwood with guns, Dirty Harry and "Make my day." In The Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood, film scholar Sara Anson Vau...

Ken MyersCrossway, 2012/1989, 213 pp., $17.99"I believe that the challenge of living with popular culture may well be as serious for modern Christians as persecution and plagues were for the saints of earlier c...