Coming Out in Middle School
If you didn’t see the article in last week’s NY Times school issue titled “Coming Out in Middle School,” you should give it a read.
Archive October 14, 2010
The Happiest Place to Text
Recently I spent a day at Disneyland with my family, riding rides and battling crowds at the “Happiest place on earth.”
Abandoning Teen Athletes
I’ve long been concerned about what we do to teenage athletes in our culture.
How Do You Spend Your Day?
Last month data from the 2008 American Time Use Survey was creatively put together in an interactive graph…
The Role of Parents in Kids’ Faith
As I’m reading Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults
Proof: Prayer and Scripture Reading Matters
I’ve been reading through Christian Smith’s new book, Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults
The 85% Statistic is Back — and Pretty Strong Actually
You’ve perhaps heard the infamous statistic that 80-85% of people who become Christians do so before age 14. We youth workers especially love quoting that data when we’re asking for a larger ministry budget.
New Press on Girls and Image
I try to keep track of news on youth in the media, and maybe it’s just me, but I’ve noticed recently a bit more press on girls and image-related issues than usual. Over the past couple of years we’ve written …
Biggest Generation Gap Ever
We seem to be living in the largest generation gap since the 1960s, at least according to a new report by the Pew Research Center. I haven’t been able to get a copy of the actual report yet, but in …
Youth Potential
FYI’s College Transition Project has been funded, to a large degree, by the Lilly Endowment. Periodically we get to update folks at Lilly, either in person or in writing, about our findings and their implications for youth ministry.
During my …