Youth & Children

Fuller Seminary heads up ambitious ecumenical project to engage millions of young people

Five years in the making, the TENx10 project aims to “help faith matter more” for 10 million teens in 10 years. The effort has involved many groups across the church and might serve as a model for more collaborations.

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald Journalist and UCC minister

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Jo Nygard Owens: Sharing our creativity draws others to God

A pastor turned graphic designer and entrepreneur discusses her call, her creative process and some of what she’s learned about church communications.

Relationships are vital to sustain the work of dismantling racism

Two children’s formation leaders write that networks of training and support are crucial for the success of anti-racism efforts in faith communities.

William Bouvel Jennifer Holt Enriquez

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Anti-racist formation of children and youth

Faith communities can play a crucial role to counter efforts that limit what is taught about our nation’s past and present, including the banning of books and censoring of curriculum content. Most churches already have the mechanisms in place to offer formation. Here are resources to make those offerings practically, thoughtfully and intentionally anti-racist.

Churches are exploring new ways to offer VBS amid volunteer shortages

Effective youth programs require training, a sense of mission and a willingness to adapt, one vacation Bible school expert says.

By Shari Finnell Journalist

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Political, prophetic and pastoral: The church’s response to miseducation

Throughout its history, the Black church has played a crucial role in providing education where it was denied. That work continues today.

By Karen Crozier Founder, Jewel of Justice

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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 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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