The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure...

A student on a Belleville West High School bus was beaten for his choice of seat, not because he was white, according to a witness and police."The incident appears now to be more about a couple of bullies on a ...

Innovative Student Ministry in the 21st CenturyJosh JoinesI remember being raised in a denominational church.  I thank God for my Christian heritage and upbringing, because I was taught core Biblical truth...

Elise Garber married the first boy she ever kissed. She met him at an Outward Bound--style summer-camp program when she was 15, she "sort of dated" him for the summer, and then, like most teenage romances, it...

It's a new school year, but an old fight is brewing in American classrooms. Teachers and administrators around the country are scratching their heads once again over the Pledge of Allegiance.The courts have c...

A 9-year-old boy is told he can't put his toy boat in the water.Added bonus: His name is Noah. ...

It was the first day of my first job as youth pastor.  The senior pastor called me into his office to share with me what I hoped were a few words of wisdom and encouragement as I began my new c...

Youth pastor and author Tim Schmoyer (Life in Student Ministry) and his father-in-law, Pastor Danny Wayman, discuss ways youth pastors and youth directors can work best with others on staff at church -- especia...

1. It's not fund-raising; it's harnessing interest.A woman in our congregation hired a boy to move some boards from her car to the garage. She paid him the equivalent of $60 an hour and sustained him with donut...

Two Christian girls. Two sets of distraught parents. And two state courts smack in the middle of it. Christian Girls, Interrupted...