Most youth workers can relate to the battle against cell phone dependency and the symptoms of withdrawal that come when we limit or ban cell phone use during a weekend youth retreat or mission trip.

Pornography is often a driving force behind new technology, and it is no surprise that the Internet is the fertile soil where much pornography and pornography-related compulsions have their roots. Here are three major reasons why the Internet has become such a powerful influence in the spread of pornography...

What is it about pornography that makes it so appealing to so many men? As a biopsychologist and a person of faith, I have felt convicted to respond to the pornification of our culture. As I have studied how the brain develops, how hormones and culture affect it and how addictions and compulsions develop,...

So if you decide to reach us, help us access that deepest place that not even technology or the market can penetrate. Don't package spiritual products for us to consume. Embody Christ in ways that are tangible and enduring. Love us from the core of your being. The more relationally significant you want...

From the green revolution to “Starbucks spirituality,” today’s teens are actively formulating their own unique perception of reality. Keeping a pulse on teen trends can offer valuable insights for how to reach into their world with God’s grace and truth. Check out these five teen trends identified by...

“Do you want to go large?” asked the clerk. I was at a drive-through window. This time I turned her down, but more often than not our culture has adopted a super-size-me approach when it comes to fast food—and church ministry. We seem to glorify today’s megachurches, with their impressive facilities,...

As youth ministry workers, we have an amazing opportunity to quench students’ thirst for intimacy through deep relationships with God and others. Because our culture is ill-equipped to provide true intimacy, a door is opened for us to reach the souls of today’s youth.

All Justin Berry was looking for were some friends online. At age 13, with an absent father and clueless mother, he signed up for a social networking site and, because the site was running a special promotion, received a camera to clip onto his computer screen. People throughout the world could look...

Once upon a time, the future represented a place of hope, technology promised a life of productive leisure, and advanced communications guaranteed a safer global community. But a funny thing happened on the way to the future. Reality set in; and as Jesus once admonished, there is plenty of trouble for...

Technology is cool. Really cool. And rightly so. Technology has been here since the beginning. This is important to consider in the dialogue about technology and youth ministry because contemporary technology has a way of diminishing the enormous importance of language in our lives and the lives of the...