When the walls of Jericho collapsed, chaos ensued. The Israelite army converged on the city and followed the Lord's instructions to the letter. They killed every person within the city, slaughtered the livestoc...

LONELINESSPortraitsSamantha had been nervous about going on the trip with the youth group. She was a freshman, so she didn't know many of the older kids. And to be honest, she didn't have many friends in her ow...

As an agnostic from a broken home studying at Oxford University, Carolyn Weber seemed like a poor candidate for embracing Jesus; but that's what happened as her creative memoir, Surprised by Oxford, makes clear...

"We don't have to have daughters anymore!"Combine China's one-child rule and the desperate quest for sons among Chinese couples, and the availability of ultrasound not only means identifying the sex of the unbo...

As a woman named Marsha talks to me, I feel like I'm not really here. I'm sitting on the couch in my living room, but it's like I'm not. She's been talking to me about grief, but I feel like she's speaking to s...

YouthWorker Journal Senior Editor Chap Clark struck a chord with his 2004 book, Hurt, which sold more than 50,000 copies and led to a more accessible 2009 version, Kids Who Hurt. Now, Chap has gone back to his ...

I want to show we can have the freedom to dress without rules, maintain our love for shopping, not get discouraged while shopping and satisfy our craving for style without sacrificing our integrity. When o...

From Of Pilgrims and Fire: When God Shows Up at the Movies Films are one of the most powerful forms of popular culture. How can we view films more intelligently and reflectively? The following 10 tips s...

Rock Solid VolunteersMotivation 2: Families Involved Together"Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, sp...

"I had been my whole life a bell, and I never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck."—Annie Dillard I grew up in a religious home. A full-dose, hard-core, shaken-together-and-my-cup-runneth...