teenagers
It’s me, Margaret’s mom
Judy Blume’s gift to the world is her insistence that young people can be trusted as capable moral agents.
At Tara Isabella Burton’s fictional boarding school, the hunger for transcendence gets dark
A tale of beauty, religion, and how easy it is to exploit them
Talking with my children about sex without shame
I wanted to give them better than what I had. It wasn't easy.
A tough age for girls
Teenage girls navigate a tough landscape. There are tools the church can offer them.
A teenage killer’s brain
You can never fully know your child’s interior life. You cannot know the measure of sadness or rage that may be unfolding within them.
Confirmed and sent out: Fostering encounters with God
Encounters with God happen, and they are known by their liberating effects. How can confirmation class support such encounters?
The Giver’s temptations
If ever a movie with a teenage protagonist was tailor-made for sermon illustrations, it is this one.
Stubborn hope
Despite bleak forecasts, many of today’s teenagers refuse to buy the marketed temptations to despair and fear. They’ll find a way.
Sticky faith: What keeps kids connected to church?
We youth ministers have often tried to make our ministries cool enough to compete. But every teen knows that the church is not cool.
by Jen Bradbury