by Julie Richardson Brown “Oh Julie...I don’t know. I don’t have anything to say that they’d care about.” “But I’m too old for that.” “Are you kidding? They don’t want me around. They want younger folks to take them on ...

Back when Spiderman was a cartoon on TV, I can't remember a single episode where he didn't catch the criminal in a web. Youth ministers can learn a lot from Spiderman and spiders about how to get youth to stick ...

If a teenager walked into your church on Sunday on her own, with a friend, or with his family, what impressions would he or she have of your church? The numbers of teenagers leaving the church are staggering. I have ...

Over the past five years, I have been blessed to get to know Kara Powell and Brad Griffin from the Fuller Youth Institute.  In 2006, I got my first glimpse of the initial findings from the College Transitions Project research when ...