by | Oct 28, 2010 | Famous Mormon Teens, Teens Making a Difference
Ryker Matthews, an All-American lineman at American Fork High School in Utah, was recently selected as the Army All-American player of the year—one of high school football’s highest honors. It helps that Ryker is 6’6″ tall and weighs 285 lbs, but the...
by | Sep 30, 2010 | Blog, Teen Life, Youth
Teenage Mormon girls can now do the Personal Progress Program on the Internet and leaders and parents can monitor it there. Personal progress is a fun program for girls in the Mormon youth program, called Young Women. The girls in the program are given a list of goals...
by | Sep 1, 2010 | Blog, Encouragement, Jesus Christ, Mormon, Mormonism, Obedience, Repentance, Teen Life, Understanding Your Mormon Friend, Youth
Kenda Creasy Dean, author of a book on teens and religion, is not a Mormon, but she found, while interviewing hundreds of teens, that Mormon teens had something other teens did not. One thing she found is that Mormonism gives its teenagers hope for the future. Mormon...
by | Aug 31, 2010 | Obedience, Teen Life, Youth
In a book about teens and religion, author Kenda Creasy Dean, who is not Mormon, argues that the Mormons are on to something in the way they treat their teenagers. She found Mormon teens were, as a whole, more connected to their religions than other teens. One point...
by | Aug 31, 2010 | Mormonism, Service, Teen Life, Youth
We’ve been talking about a book by Kenda Creasy Dean which suggests Mormon teens and teens in black churches are more likely to be strongly committed to their religions that other teens. One thing the author says we have to do is to make sure teenagers have a personal...
