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As the school year is wrapping up, parents and kids are beginning to unpack backpacks and pack up trunks and duffle bags for summer camp. We registered our daughter for camp in the fall, and she will return to her beloved camp in a few week...

Welcome to Rooted’s Top Ten, a curated reading list for youth ministers. Each month, we find ten articles, and sometimes videos or podcasts, from various sources that we believe will encourage you in your ministry to teenagers and their families. Some give e...

You open your computer and find the school website. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. Finally, they post the list. You scan the names as fast as you can, hoping—no, praying—that you will see your son or daughter’s name listed as having made the team.

Most children will try out for a team, an organization, an ensemble at some point—something where they have an opportunity ...

On a warm July morning in 2010, I woke up for work at my nine-to-five job as a paralegal. It felt like any other day, except there was no breakfast on the table, and the sound of heavy breathing had stopped. 

You see, earlier that week, my mother had returned home after finishing her eight-month stay at the Goldwater Memorial Hospital for chemotherapy on Roosev...

It has never been more challenging to be a teenager than right now. In recent decades, the adolescent years have been defined by cultural pressures that prohibit many students from living in a way that makes them happy and free. They must always consider what their peers or the culture around them think. Every move, word, opinion, and belief has to be formed with intention an...