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Kids with Goals and Supportive Parents Less Likely to Ever Start Vaping
A new study finds that children who have clear goals for their future and supportive parents are much less likely to try either vaping or traditional tobacco products.
Avoiding Life's Burn Out
avoiding life's burn out
Most Parents Clueless About Overuse Dangers to Young Pitchers
Before you sign your young pitcher up to play baseball in multiple leagues, familiarize yourself with guidelines that can protect them against overuse injuries. A new...
Does God Really Expect Us to Forgive and Forget? - Guest Post by Jennifer Henn
When Christ died a cruel death for our sin, He never denied our offenses against Him. He forgave us because we couldn’t save ourselves. I can’t be like Christ and save...
TikTok Videos Are Giving Kids an Overly Positive View of Vaping
Content portraying vaping as cool and in a positive light is rampant on the popular social media platform TikTok, according to a new study.
A Call to Urgency
When we die, we face either heaven or hell. While the great and final judgment was yet to come for both men in Jesus’ story, it’s clear that immediately upon our...
What's Hot? 07/30/21
A weekly listing of hot cultural items from the Internet, music, television, and movies.
American Elementary School Students Fell 4 to 5 Months Behind During Pandemic
Elementary school students in the United States fell behind five months in mathematics and four months in reading by the end of the 2020–21 school year, according to a...
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in… My First Church (2021)
My “first” church was a county-seat Baptist congregation in a small town near the school where I went to seminary. It was a big church by student standards, 300 or so...
The Sanctity of Marriage
Are divorce and the term sanctity of marriage mutually exclusive? I don't think so.
Back-to-School Shopping Spree: Parents Spending $843 Per Child to Prep for In-Person Learning This Year
A new survey shows that parents are sparing no expense for back-to-school shopping, spending an average of $843 on each child.
Worldwide Increases in Adolescent Loneliness
A new study finds that the psychological well-being of adolescents around the world began to decline after 2012, in conjunction with the rise of smartphone access and...
When Christ Doesn't Meet Our Expectations
Years ago, in the middle of what felt like a crisis, God challenged me to consider how deep my loyalties lay. Really, to consider who He truly was to me. Would I treat...
Netflix Plans Push Into Video Games
Netflix announced that it’s hired a Facebook executive to lead games development — apparently signaling its intention to leap into publishing video games.
A Fractured Shibboleth (2021)
It stretched 548 feet across the vast, open space of Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London, the national gallery of international modern and contemporary art....
What's Hot? 07/23/21
A weekly listing of hot cultural items from the Internet, music, television, and movies.
Teens with a History of Self-Harm Have a Significantly Higher Threshold for Pain
New research has found that teenagers who have self-harmed five or more times in their life have a significantly higher threshold for pain compared to adolescents that...
The Church's Oxygen (2021)
It was startling to me how sensitive the human body is to a lack of oxygen in the air we breathe. I have been equally startled by how sensitive the church body is to a...
