As soon as children can hold a crayon, an adult in their lives usually teaches them to color inside the lines. The free-thinking child scribbles anywhere; while the child who wishes to please colors a picture w...

After 26 years of youth ministry, I thought I have heard every question possible. In a previous column I mentioned I am teaching Bible to middle school students at the Red Lion Christian Academy in Bear, De...

Way back in the early 1980s (it seems like another world now), I was playing on the tennis team at a small college in West Virginia, attending the Inter-Varsity college fellowship, studying history, and working...

Madonna—musician, actress, dancer, business woman, mother, author—is a rocket scientist when it comes to mastery of reinvention. Madonna has had more lives than multiple felines. She gives Oprah (...

My 14-year-old son was investigat­ing the music I had downloaded onto my iPod. Some he thought were sweet. But some were, in his opinion, pretty lame. After listening to the Simon and Garfunkel hit “...