Late last spring, social media pioneer Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook nation (Facebook is now the third most populated country in the world!), started thinking out loud about lowering their age restriction to...

This was one of those spur-of-the-moment games a group of friends and I invented several years ago during church camp. It can be used for any game that uses a ball (softball, basketball, etc.), but vo...

On a recent Sunday morning, I was musing about the fact that I had been around a lot of death lately. A few weeks prior, a childhood friend had been killed in a car accident; his mother passed away two weeks la...

Tiger McLuen is president of Youth Leadership, an organization that trains and equips leaders, and author of The Student Leadership Training Manual. A popular conference speaker and adjunct faculty member at Be...

The BackdropHave you caught all the hype lately about the scientific discovery that's being called "the God particle"? Particle physicists are as close as one can get to the Boson particle without actually seei...

Casablanca is one of those films I could watch over and over and never get tired of it. The dialogue, the acting, the sophisticated storyline, the good guy coming out on top in the end…Most of all, I love...

Late one night, at the end of a group's mission trip to inner city Philadelphia, I sat up talking with the participants about their trip. I had been their guide as the group had worked hard all week at various ...

We have not done a good job in convincing young people and the larger society of the value and necessity of maintaining an America based on traditional values, of maintaining fundamental institutions—basi...

"Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."—Jesus1Most staff members in the for-prof...

A few years ago I was in a casual running group. Our motto was: "No faster than the slowest runner." I think this was not only a great motto for our group, but also a wise approach for being with others in life...