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Use the Scout Oath and Law to Write New Year’s Resolutions

A new year is always exciting because it feels like a fresh start—a chance to form new habits, accomplish the things we’ve been meaning to, and better ourselves. Too many goals or too vague, however, and we give up before we’ve even begun. As I worked on my resolutions for 2016, I wanted to focus on the things that will be most beneficial for my character and habits. What better way to do that than by focusing on living the Scout Oath and Law?...

A Scout is Friendly — 12 Days of Scout Christmas

Millions Saved by Scout Training!

“Scouting volunteer David Scott, publisher of Running Toward Danger, did the math and came up with the staggering number of how many people are alive today because of Scouting heroism.An estimated 3 to 5 million people—the equivalent of a city the size of Houston and Chicago—are alive today in the U.S. because they, or one of their parents and grandparents, had their life saved by a Boy Scout,” Scott says. “No volunteer lifesaving program … has had such an impact on a country.”...

BUILDING YOUTH

What’s Up with Gen Z Scouts?

Today’s Scout leaders are working with a new kind of youth. Generation Z are a savvy group that are digital natives, but unlike Millennials, these young pragmatists neither hope nor despair of life, having grown up in a world torn everywhere with war, and filled with economic insecurity...

DUTY TO GOD

What does it mean to be faith-based?

In Boy Scouts, we claim to be a faith-based organization. Scouting is not just survival techniques and fun camping. Scouting is also not just starting a Scout group hoping for church membership increase (although that does happen). Nope. Scouting is...

SCOUTING ADVENTURE

A Trip of a Lifetime

“A trip of a lifetime,” is what all Scouts from Troop 378 from Canton, Texas said about their trip to the Elkhorn High Adventure Base this past summer. Most of the boys were eager and anxious about coming to the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Boy Scouts from Troop 378 had trained well for this "Super Trek" ...