Youth

“The CDC director released a statement just a few days ago in response to the death related to the outbreak of ‘severe lung disease in people who use e-cigarettes or vaping devices’ ” - Church Leaders

“Jon Bloom, author of Don’t Follow Your Heart: God’s Ways Are Not Our Ways, echoes this wisdom: ‘The truth is, no one lies to us more than our own hearts.’” - Christianity Today

“The study, made up of data compiled by the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey… was published Monday by JAMA Pediatrics. Emergency room medical personnel in 2007 received 580,000 suicidal cases. By 2015, that number escalated to 1.12 million.” - Faithwire

“Jonathan Morrow of the Impact 360 Institute explains why he believes Gen Z can’t seem to commit to a Christian worldview. He lists two main reasons: the fear of being seen as judgmental and all that it encompasses, and what he calls the ‘crisis of knowledge.’ … the belief that we can only glean knowledge from the hard sciences.” - Christianity Today

“Pew released a starting report last week, finding: Anxiety and depression are on the rise among America’s youth and, whether they personally suffer from these conditions or not, seven-in-ten teens today see them as major problems among their peers.” - National Review

“Even with 1 in 4 leaving over politics, college kids are more likely to return after a hiatus than leave for good.” - CToday

“A systematic review and meta-analysis of 2.5 million adolescents published in JAMA Pediatrics concluded that ‘sexual minority youths’ — those identifying as ‘homosexual,’ ‘bisexual,’ ‘transgender’ — ‘have a significantly higher risk of life-threatening behavior compared with their heterosexual peers.’” - CP

“We often teach our youth that the ‘outside world’ is full of reprobate, evil monsters, and that the moment you graduate from Christian school and step onto a college campus or into a workplace, you’re going to be attacked from all sides—persecuted, mocked and ostracized.” - Pursuing the Pursuer

“Teens who report high-frequency digital media use are twice as likely to develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports.” - BPNews

“In an analysis of church attendance among their congregations during the month of October 2016, the Church of England found that the smallest 25 percent of churches reported 0 children attended on average.” CPost