If you've watched "Glee," you probably saw the episode with a novel new product called the Grilled Cheesus--and it's not just a prop for the show! Meg Sheehan and Rob Corso, 2002 graduates of Loyola College in ...

Penn State Scandal Shows Confidence MisplacedGet downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened:On Nov. 9, 2011, Joe Paterno, head coach of the Penn State football team ...

Adolescents by nature are already somewhat self-absorbed. The consumption message of Christmas only feeds more into that. This is a family Christmas Eve devotion that puts a flip on that and could provide one o...

In youth ministry, we seem to be on a roller-coaster of ups and downs. I know it sounds cliché, but I'm not necessarily talking about our own personal lives so much as the lives of our youth.  As yout...

If you have been in youth ministry for any length of time you have felt disappointment.• Disappointment when a teen you have personally mentored and baptized walks away from God;• Disappointment whe...

Random Thoughts: Get Real with God, Others and Yourself: A Devotional for Young AdultsSteve Russo, editorBarbour Books, 2011, 384 pp., $12.99With brief, direct entries, this Random Thoughts likely will app...

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D ChristmasDirector: Todd Strauss-SchulsonStarring: John Cho as Harold, Kal Penn as Kumar and Neil Patrick Harris as himself.Rating: RThe typical Harold and Kumar movie is concerned w...

"I'm having a hard time getting Chelsea to youth group. She says she doesn't feel welcome there."I'm sure you have had these conversations with parents. The first thing you need to understand about such convers...

My first experience with a GPS was in Spain. Our church's youth pastor, Trevor, and I went to visit some missionaries in training; and of course we got lost a number of times. Driving through the beautiful mou...

Lives of passion step outside the normal and rational and give all they have gladly and generously. I love this definition of passion being made popular by Louie: "Passion is the degree of difficulty we are wil...