During one of my son’s Christmas parties, my chest started to hurt. It lasted all day. Then while watching a college football game on TV that evening, my chest started to tighten. And it wasn’t beca...

Urban youth ministries are as varied as the churches in the body of Christ.  Each approach has its strengths and weaknesses, but overemphasis on any one aspect of youth ministry tends to nurture a limited ...

Once upon a time there was life and there was pop culture. Today, pop culture is life for millions of kids.What do youth workers need to know about pop culture to understand kids and their world? And what can w...

Youth Culture 101(Youth Specialties)YouthWorker Journal’s pop-culture columnist puts his years of experience in this book, full of research and insight about today’s youth culture. One of the best p...

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“Culture” isn’t the dirty word it used to be—at least not in youth ministry circles. I know that’s the case because I’m not getting beat up as much as I used to. When I f...

Once upon a time, not very many summers ago, I was sitting in the back row of a large Vineyard church with a 2,000-plus-seat auditorium. It was filled with youth ministry students from all over the Mi...

This article originally appeared in print journal July/Aug. 1996.Disenfranchised citizens scattered across the former Soviet Union. Millions living in the Muslim nations. Military personnel. Photojournalists. T...

This article first appeared in the print journal May/June 1996.Sherry attended our youth retreat and spent the entire weekend hearing about God's desire for her. On Saturday evening she became a Christian. She ...

This article first appeared in the print journal Fall 1990.Focus on Music - The Raunchy-Rock controversyEverybody's arguing about what to do with rock, rap, and heavy metal lyrics that glorify sex, violence, dr...