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Essays by poet Sadiqa de Meijer on her transition from speaking Dutch to English.
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BBC’s Bloodlands serves a four-part Irish police show.
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Bestselling author Timothy Keller and legal scholar John Inazu bring together a thrilling range of artists, thinkers, and leaders to provide a guide to faithful living in a pluralistic, fractured world.
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The Banner and communications from RCA-CRC Disability Concerns have been recognized with “Best of the Church Press” awards from the Associated Church Press for work produced in 2020.
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Congregants of Alberni Valley CRC in Port Alberni, B.C., placed flowers on a cross outdoors, and pastors of LaGrave CRC in Grand Rapids, Mich., and West End CRC in Edmonton, Alta., preached two services to accommodate smaller gatherings at each.
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Two churches, connected through seven years of past work trips and separated by lack of travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, came together in worship March 21.
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Though not convening this year, the Agenda for Synod 2021 has been released. It contains 14 overtures and three communications related to the human sexuality report. One, by a group of students, was submitted by three different assemblies.
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I have discovered that in the land of the lonely, one has an immense wardrobe of masks. It makes me wonder what the true face underneath is.
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The debut studio album by American contemporary worship musician Brandon Lake.
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In this moving nonfiction picture book, children learn Sachiko Yasui’s story of surviving the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and her message of peace to a young audience.
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For nearly two decades, RELEVANT Magazine remains at the forefront of media for Christian young adults.
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My church expects parents to help in children’s worship once a month. Is that necessary? What do we gain and what do we lose?
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In a sense, I had embraced All Lives Matter as a movement many years ago.
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In our interconnected world, actions we take now affect not only our own backyards, farms, and cities, but also distant places and peoples extending centuries into the future.
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Ralph Bruxvoort, who preached, taught, and lived out a theology centered on God's unconditional love and grace, died March 23.
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Ben Wiersma, preaching intern at Sibley (Iowa) Christian Reformed Church, and new member of the local ministerial association, was one of several participants in the association’s revised Easter weekend plan.
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Recent reports about instances of bullying and threatening communication received by staff of the Christian Reformed Church’s Office of Social Justice have raised questions about what’s going on and why.
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A deeply personal and pastoral book on how to detect abusive systems.
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A dying novelist makes a final effort to connect with son in an artful faith-based film.
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A riveting 21st-century morality play about a megachurch pastor and his secrets.
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Why have differing expectations recently caused friction in some churches?
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The Religious Exemption Accountability Project filed a lawsuit March 29. It says the Dept. of Education is complicit in “abuses and unsafe conditions thousands of LGBTQ+ students endure at hundreds of taxpayer-funded, religious colleges and universities.”