Two faith-based programs use different philosophies to educate young people about relationships and sex. Our Whole Lives: Sexuality and Our Faith uses a comprehensive approach that starts in kindergarten. A Promise to Keep emphasizes pre-marital abstinence and relies on peer mentors and role models.

B road Ripple on a Saturday night is a busy place: Laughing people make their way to various gatherings, cars cruise the streets looking for places to park, scary-looking teens hang out on the bridge over the canal. If you were to visit the basement of the Broad Ripple United Methodist Church, you would see about 50 or so of these youth sitting around, eating pizza and talking with friends. These

"Boys are icky," Alexa Farmer said to her mom in the car one afternoon when the subject of guys came up a couple of years ago. "Well, do you like girls?" her mother asked in the same joking way. "Yeah," said Alexa, turning serious. She suddenly felt scared and wanted to jump out of the car. They were both quiet, and then Alexa's mother looked at her, expecting her daughter to say it was just a jok

The recent creation of The Russian Ballet Academy of Indiana is a Cinderella story, with its tale of dancers overcoming adversity because of their devotion to dance. When Ballet Internationale-Indianapolis, a world-renowned ballet company, abruptly closed its doors last November due to financial hardship, it took its professional ballet school, the Clara R. Noyes Academy, down with it.