ChurchRelevance.com recently posted some research coming from Ken Ham’s new book Already Gone that takes a look at trends that suggest Sunday school is failing at making long term disciples.
The findings focus on 20 to 29-year-old evangelicals.  Around 95% of those surveyed regularly attended church in elementary and middle schools.  As other research has shown, [...]

I have a great appreciation for parents or anyone who works with children in ministry. br />
How do you handle these kinds of questions about Jesus?

Scotteriology has posted a few of the stories he tells his daughters. In his words, “I think you may recognize the source material.”
You have probably heard a lot of stories that start off something like this: Once upon a time in a land far, far away. Well this story not only happens “Once upon a [...]

Phil Vischer—you know, the VeggieTales guy—recently announced he’s getting back into Christian media. How, you ask? Well, he’s launching a kids media studio that will distribute exclusively on the internet through a monthly subscription service.
Oh, and you get to pick your price.
It’s just crazy enough to work.
He explains how and why in the video below [...]

Despite the Church’s efforts to distance its present from the past, is it working? Mark Sayers opines about how our less than perfect past is leading to young adults leaving the Church:
Many Christian young adults feel that they are living on the wrong side of Christian history. When they share their faith with their secular [...]

Trevin Wax relates some of the thoughts he picked up from Robert Wuthnow’s book After the Baby Boomers about how to reach out to young adults (18 to twenty-somethings).
His main points are in bold and I’ve provided a short summary of each of his summaries, but please read his whole post if you’re [...]

Steve Case is one of the funniest people I know. He’s written a lot of brilliant, cutting-edge youth ministry books for Youth Specialties.
Apparently he has some kind of pent-up angst and wrote the book most youth and children’s ministers have wanted to write at one time or another – Rejected Sunday School Lessons: Totally [...]

Why do so many 18-22 year-olds drop out of church after high school? Not for the reasons you might think. An upcoming book called Essential Church by Sam Rainer looks for the answers to that question, and the author has posted some of his findings at his blog—see his three myths about church dropouts.
The first [...]

Did anybody tune in earlier this week to watch Hard as Nails, a documentary about a “tough love” Catholic youth ministry run by Justin Fatica? Newsweek has a short piece about the ministry. This sort of scene doesn’t sound like something that my church’s youth director would allow:
Though his ministry, called Hard as Nails, is [...]

Polls – Take Our Poll Forget bingo games at church; the new church-and-culture controversy involves rocket launchers, aliens, and deathmatches. Hundreds of churches are using the Halo games to connect with young people, according to a NYT article this week: Those buying it must be 17 years old, given it is rated M [...]