Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla., is requiring all of its incoming students to wear a Fitbit to keep track of their required fitness goals; but while the Fitbit requirement is new, ORU's commitment to ph...

Thirteen-year-old Virginian Nicole Madison Lovell recently was murdered, her body found near the border of Virginia and North Carolina. Two college students, David Eisenhauer, 18, and Natalie M. Keepers, 19, ha...

John Castello was offered scholarships from more than a dozen colleges and universities that wanted him to play football for them; but when national signing day rolled around, Castello, a senior at Mars High ...

Teenagers are hard. They are not complex; they are just hard. You can anticipate mood swings, an incredible amount of energy, an incredible lack of energy, an envious amount of eating, and the on-again-off-agai...

The world of youth ministry is filled with liabilities. From a kid getting a cut in a game at youth group to a child breaking an arm while wrestling at camp, the world of youth ministry can be a potentially dan...

You don't have to do youth ministry very long to see that people don't understand what you do. • "So, you just prepare a little lesson for the kids once a week?" • "Do you get paid for that?" ...

Two Tennessee teens died from drinking a mixture of methanol-based racing fuel and Mountain Dew, popularly called dewshine. The drink can be intoxicating—but obviously consuming racing fuel is never a goo...

Three high schoolers from Newtown, Conn., have been arrested in a sexting scandal with a new wrinkle: Not only were they distributing sexually explicit pictures of classmates, but selling them—allegedly f...

Is it wrong for colleges to ask applicants if they've ever been arrested? It sure is, according to the activist group Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Yet that doesn't stop many colleges and unive...

For years—generations, actually—Mattel's popular fashion doll Barbie has been under assault for her outrageously unrealistic body. However, when Barbie sales sank 20 percent between 2012 and 2014, M...