youth ministry

When clergy ask themselves: does it really matter?

By Jeffrey Salkin — June 3, 2019
How important is our work? Whatever work we do? God knows.

Jesus Rode A Dinosaur: Conference looks at what churches tell teens about science

By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 18, 2018
EDINA, Minn. (RNS) — A two-day conference started with a hunch — that youth pastors in America weren't ready to talk about faith and science with the students in their churches.

Responding to American Christianity’s obsession with youth

By Jonathan Merritt — March 1, 2018
Author Andrew Root says, "As the church finds itself with an authenticity deficit, it often runs to youthful forms to legitimate it."

My visit to the land of teenagers

By David P. Gushee — June 22, 2017
What I learned from a week at the beach with my church's youth group.

Church’s mock raid leaves teen traumatized

By Tracy Gordon — March 26, 2012

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (RNS) A fake terrorist raid staged to show Christian teenagers the perils faced by Christian missionaries left one 14-year-old girl so traumatized that her mother filed a report with the police, claiming her daughter suffered a busted lip and bruised knees. By Ed Komenda.

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