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In Owls Mate for Life, James Paauw chronicles the dramatic seven-month survival struggle of his wife, Liz, following a high-speed head-on motor vehicle crash.

My parents need more support, but my siblings don’t want to help. How can I get them to step up and honor their father and mother?

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My lifelong Christian identity meant patriarchal Abraham had been my spiritual father. But now I realized l also had a genetic connection to him.

Since 1997 the Crossroads Community Ministries arm of Madison Avenue CRC in Paterson, N.J., has operated discipleship houses for residential-based recovery and transformation.

While our national discourse rightfully condemns Islamophobia and antisemitism, the systematic persecution of Christians around the world receives only a fraction of our collective outrage.

Middle-grade readers will learn the little-known story of Mamie Tape, an 8-year-old Chinese American girl whose family fought for her right to attend public school in San Francisco.

After a brain injury erases the past eight years of Dr. Amy Larsen's life, she must navigate an unfamiliar world where she has no recollection of patients, colleagues, the soulmate she divorced, the man she now loves, or the tragedy that caused her to push everyone away.

Dr. Ana Claudia Quintana Arantes's viral TED Talk on end-of-life care cemented her, a palliative care doctor in Brazil, as a global leader on living and dying well.

A GEMS Club in Kenya received notes and handmade gifts from Friendship Christian Reformed Church’s GEMS Club in Byron Centre, Mich.

It hasn’t always (or ever) been easy to live the life of faith. But God’s great promises, sealed in our baptisms, have stood the test of time.

As a columnist for the New York Times who writes often about spiritual topics for a skeptical audience, Ross Douthat understands that many of us want to have more faith than we do. He argues that what we know today should make it harder to not have faith than to have it.

I need to spend more time on Bible study. Is there a best way to do that?

Check out the numbers for this year’s agenda.

“Healing the city one person at a time” became a catchphrase for our church.

Whatever it is you want to do someday—whatever it is, go home and do it today.

In this beautifully illustrated mock-autobiography for middle-grade readers, Wind speaks directly to the reader, telling fascinating stories that show its cultural, historical, and technical importance to humans.

A documentary explores the beloved PBS television series for children.

4 Books to Read for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

A little more than a month before synod convenes in Ancaster, Ont., the Council of Delegates of the Christian Reformed Church has finalized several things to include in its supplement to the agenda.

Cuts to Resonate Global Mission’s budget, in line with decreased revenue from ministry share giving, is prompting a deep look at the funding model for the vital function of church planting.

The Council of Delegates of the Christian Reformed Church in North America heard an interim report from its task force to tackle synod funding and governance cost.

Adopting a Statement of Appreciation for the Bi-Nationality of the CRCNA was one of the items on the agenda of the U.S. Ministry Board of the Christian Reformed Church as it met May 8.