Youth & Children

Are we losing our ability to lament gun violence?

When the memory of one shooting blends into another, we start to become numb to the grief and guilt of America’s crisis of gun violence.

By Aleta Payne Senior associate editor, Faith & Leadership

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How churches can support diverse youth

By partnering to promote youth empowerment, places of worship can also promote better mental health for young people.

By Ryan DeLapp Psychologist

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Here's how churches can play a crucial role in the anti-racist formation of children and youth

Three explicit shifts can help shape programs that counter public efforts to limit teaching about racism and injustice.

By Henry Zonio Sociologist

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Race, healing and changing the world

Ending racial trauma requires discipleship in order to overcome evil and achieve transformation, writes an author in this adapted excerpt from her new book.

By Michelle T. Sanchez Executive minister, Make and Deepen Disciples, Evangelical Covenant Church

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Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone talk anti-racism with middle schoolers

Against a backdrop of book banning, attacks on school curricula and the highly publicized death of yet another Black man after an incident of police violence, bestselling authors Kendi and Stone assure a group of North Carolina eighth graders of their humanity and equality.

By Yonat Shimron Journalist

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A nonprofit ministers on “both sides of the gun”

Together Chicago reduces gun violence with a five-pronged strategy designed to reduce crime on the streets and improve social conditions on Chicago’s West Side.

By Claire Zulkey Journalist

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Can’t relate to Christmas Mary? There’s good news for you too

For women without biological children, the veneration of Mary can be alienating. But Mary’s freedom song in Luke’s Gospel offers another way to regard the mother of Jesus, writes an author.

By Erin S. Lane Writer

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Leading joyfully and being led by joy

‘Balcony time’ can help us recognize what brings joy to our work and how to prioritize it, writes the managing director of grants at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.

By Victoria Atkinson White Director of Grants, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity

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‘I Wish My Dad: The Power of Vulnerable Conversations Between Fathers and Sons’

In this adapted excerpt from his recent book, a writer and divinity school graduate offers suggestions for healthier relationships based on dozens of interviews with men about their fathers.