Barely a quarter of young people made it to the polls in the previous mid-term election, and Mary Jane McKittrick thinks it's just not right."In school, we teach them about the Revolutionary War and all the war...

Zombies are hot, thanks in part to AMC's series, "The Walking Dead." Technically, a zombie is an animated corpse. Conceptually, zombies are a great metaphor for the spiritual life. Just ask youth worker and wri...

Preparation: Bring is a sack of candy canes ( J-shape variety) sufficient for your youth group.Ask each teenager to select a partner. Give each pair a handful of candy canes and offer these instructions:On...

Theme: Materialism Scripture: "Every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father" (James 1:17)Preparation: Bag(s) of Christmas candy large enough to accommodate your groupGive each teenager a p...

Find a group of adolescent girls and ask about Twilight. You immediately will be bombarded with comments regarding who they love more: Edward or Jacob. It is fascinating to see how one series has appealed to so...

Albert Einstein was boarding a train one day, clearly preoccupied with something. While the other passengers were settling into their seats and preparing for the journey ahead, Dr. Einstein was frantically scan...

In Holman Hunt's classic painting, Jesus comes to the end of what appears to be another long workday at His father's carpentry shop. He is stripped to the waist and stretching, and the light of dusk seeps throu...

I love research and new findings on ministry, family and students. I love to read about it, ponder it and figure out ways to put it into practice. (Yeah, I just threw the word ponder. I'm so 1887). St...

Come to the mountains of Lake Junaluska, N.C., for a Christian youth ski weekend packed with worship, fellowship and skiing in the Great Smoky Mountains. Two-night packages start at $105!Visit LakeJun...

I Am a Follower: The Way, Truth and Life of Following JesusLeonard SweetThomas Nelson, 2012, 240 pp., $15.99Leonard Sweet diagnoses an important problem for Western Christianity in I Am a Follower: Many pastors...