Research into Resources
Youth workers and parents alike often scratch their heads in bewilderment when it comes to addressing gaming in the lives of boys we know. Check out these research-based insights into the conversations you have about guys and gaming in your own context.
Learn strategies for engaging in true dialogue with teenagers about the video games they play.
What’s the deal with guys?
Recent research warns of the chronic underachieving, emotionally drifting, and irresponsible “Guyland” of male adolescence. But most of us in youth ministry don’t need research to tell us that there are new challenges inherent in…
What happens to that incredible mission team a few weeks after the trip? Too often, nothing. If you’re no longer satisfied with that result, prepare yourself for this innovative and practical look into utilizing social media to catalyze a missional movement.
As the societal pendulum swings very swiftly toward greater openness to the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) community, we are faced with the reality that it’s a growing struggle among more and more of the kids in our youth groups — and implement some tools to help us respond. Irene Cho shares insights from Andrew Marin’s research and new book, Love is an Orientation.
Whatever our feelings about social media applications, we can’t ignore their reality in kids’ lives. Front-lines youth pastor Drew Sams shares innovative research and practice in utilizing social web platforms for short-term missions team building.
Whether you’re prepping for next month’s mission trip or building a cross-cultural relationship in your neighborhood, this quick look at cultural values and how they shape our behavior will increase your CQ.
The American consumerism narrative seeks to write the identity of adolescents for them. As youth workers we have the responsibility to better understand this narrative, and the opportunity to help rewrite a counternarrative that can shape kids’ identities toward the kingdom of God.
Most of us are more than a little uncomfortable talking with parents of kids in our youth ministries about sex, especially when we’re talking about their own kids’ sexual behaviors. This free excerpt from the newly-updated Good Sex 2.0 curriculum…
The latest research on what’s happening with college freshmen and their faith identity might surprise you. Meredith Miller reviews the research and excerpts from an interview with Tony Jones on the “lockbox theory.”
