This article first appeared in the May/June 1996 print journal.An Alternative Bridge Over the Parent-Teen Culture GapGo to a seminary and tell the registrar you want to prepare for overseas missionary...

This article first appeared in the print journal, Fall 1990 Teenagers today pay a high price as they learn (if they learn) how to make ethical decisions. In Going to Extremes (Plume/Penguin Books), author Joe ...

This article originally appeared in the print journal Spring 1995.Normally a mild-mannered professor of communications, arts and sciences at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Quentin Schultze becomes an...

I am a child of the ’80s. Especially ’80s TV. I remember growing up wanting to be a little like Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties, Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice, David Addison in Moonlighting and Magnum,...

    “We operate on the assumption that because students don’t seem interested in reading what we assign, they don’t read much at all. But is that true?”   About tw...

It was one of the most exciting moments of my life. I had just spent hours—OK, days—putting together my Facebook profile, and suddenly it happened. Someone wanted to be my friend. With a thrill in...

Music—where would youth ministry be without it? Whether you struggle to keep up with the latest flavor-of-the-month band your kids are suddenly gaga over, or if you surf the Net like Kelly Slater throug...

Forget the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film. Forget the 50 Cent-Kanye West smackdown. Forget Britney’s panties, Paris’ jail stint, and Marie Osmond fainting on Dancing with the Stars. The year&#...

“As church leaders, we can either be a part of the movie conversation or we can ignore the conversation; but the talk is going to grow louder and more overwhelming in the years ahead. I say we join in!...

Want quick immersion into pop culture? Attend a comics convention. Our soccer-mom senior copy editor did and was strangely transfixed …Comics are powered by “a longing for the fantastic, the superna...