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Youth Ministry
What Can Christians Learn From the Surge in Mormon Youth Missionaries?
Experts weigh in on how to engage young people.
May 13, 2013
Steve Jobs, Back to School, and Why Doubt Belongs in Your Youth Group Curriculum
Our research at the Fuller Youth Institute suggests unexpressed doubt leads young people to leave the faith.
September 4, 2012
When Dad Is in Prison
Mentoring programs for children of prisoners let faith flourish after federal cutback.
June 15, 2012
By Grace You Are Mature
We don't grow out of spiritual adolescence by trying to grow up.
June 13, 2012
Ponce de León on Steroids
What does Christian maturity look like in a youth-worshiping culture?
June 12, 2012
The Rise of Digital Urban Tribes
How we under- and overestimate the power and shape of the next generation.
June 11, 2012
When Are We Going to Grow Up? The Juvenilization of American Christianity
We're all adolescents now.
June 8, 2012
Should Sunday School Be for the Whole Family?
Church youth need more exposure to adults.
December 16, 2011
Learning to Read the Gospel Again
How to address our anxiety about losing the next generation.
December 7, 2011
Challenging Chappies
Australia's atheist prime minister wants chaplains in schools.
December 14, 2010
Youth with a Passion
In its first 50 years, YWAM has deployed four million workers in 240 countries. Now it sets its sights on 152 remaining unreached people groups.
December 8, 2010
Hipster Faith
To remain relevant, many evangelical pastors are following the lead of hipster trendsetters. So what happens when 'cool' meets Christ?
September 3, 2010
Class Action
Nicole Baker Fulgham champions educational equity with Teach for America.
August 3, 2010
A Candle in the Darkness
The president of Compassion International tells his story of childhood abuse and deliverance in a West Africa boarding school.
May 7, 2010
Do You Hear What I Hear?
The deaf are virtually an 'unreached people group,' but an Illinois ministry is remedying that one video at a time.
April 8, 2010
Jesus Ball in Slovakia
GoodSports reaches a culture suspicious of Christians by teaching kids how to hit an inside pitch.
March 10, 2010
A Proverbs 31 Woman
Eve Nunez speaks up for children who cannot speak for themselves.
February 17, 2010
Segregated in a Whole New Way
A church family from the same generation isn't much of a family.
January 28, 2010
Spiritual Lives All Their Own
What if children have their own experiences of God—and a genuine free will to respond?
January 8, 2010
The Myth of the Perfect Parent
Why the best parenting techniques don't produce Christian children.
January 8, 2010
Premarital Abstinence
What's the best way to encourage people to save sex for the covenant of marriage?
January 6, 2010
Lost in Transition
With his latest research on emerging adults, sociologist Christian Smith helps the church reach out to a rootless generation.
October 9, 2009
Saving Witches in Kolwezi
Accused of witchcraft by parents and churches, children in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being rescued by Christian activists.
September 15, 2009
The Case for Christendom
A renewed sense of Christian culture could be the key to younger evangelicals' angst.
August 24, 2009
Who Do You Think You Are?
The global church needs to ground youth in their true, deepest identity.
February 23, 2009
Do Christian Schools Make Students More Religious?
A new study says they might, but adds that parents and peers have more influence.
February 11, 2009
It's Never Been about the Abstinence Pledge Itself
Researchers should ask what causes teens to abstain, not whether a public vow is a magic bullet.
January 23, 2009
Study: Abstinence Pledges Aren't Enough
New research says the mere act of taking a public vow won't keep teens from sex.
January 7, 2009
Numbers of new LDS missionaries 'unprecedented,' church says
During the first few weeks following President Monson’s announcement [lowering the minimum age to 18 for men and 19 for women], the number of new missionary applications surged by 471 percent, from about 700 new applications per week to about 4,000 each week, with young women comprising more than half of the new applicants. (Deseret News)
Updating Vacation Bible School From Its Rote Roots
Vacation Bible School, à la Second Baptist, adds up to what one staff member calls “trickle-up evangelism,” and it stands at a striking, sophisticated remove from the summer program’s commonplaces of “cookies, Kool-Aid and flannel-board Bible stories." (NYT)
Charitable Giving Higher for ECFA Members
ECFA member organizations reported double-digit percentage increases in giving to adoption (23.9 percent), pregnancy resource centers (22.2 percent), alcohol/drug rehabilitation (20.5 percent), youth ministries (13.2 percent), and rescue missions (10.9 percent). (ECFA)
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