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We are so covered in mud that we can’t even do something righteous without soiling it.

Polarization seems to have pervaded every corner of our families, churches, and society.

Across the globe, Open Doors found that there has been a 24% increase in Christians killed because of their faith.

After four years of fun snow builds, a family from Faith Christian Reformed Church in Pella, Iowa, used their 2022 creation to raise money for Living Water Wells.

Xay Xue Yang,  founding pastor of the Hmong Christian Reformed Church in Sheboygan, Wisc., died Dec. 15, 2021.

A new collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life continue to encourage, challenge, and influence.

Three pastors and friends converse about church, culture, and life off the pulpit.

Evan and Mae run off to avoid a shotgun wedding, a decision that initiates decades of marital adventures and misadventures.

야망은 현재를 보는 시각을 흐리게 하고 하나님께서 매일 베푸시는 축복을 간과하게 합니다.

Beyond helping young people to build healthy relationships, the program also helps them recognize behaviors that are unacceptable.

As Christians we are called to use all things for God’s glory. That includes our technology.

Book pulls back the curtain on what is happening in Christian bedrooms and exposes the problematic evangelical teachings that wreck sex for so many couples.

Village Lights is a multicultural worship collective formed by Sarah Kroger, Ike Ndolo, and Ricky Vazquez.

Pastor and chaplain, George Van Arragon was a man who made people feel welcomed, accepted, and encouraged. He died Dec. 27.

After a full life of ministry and a richly productive season of retirement, Lammert Slofstra, 97, died Dec. 31, 2021.

It wasn’t until later, after my encounter with the letter carrier and when I looked up the lyrics, that I realized I did get the words wrong.

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Our family joined a Christian Reformed church a few years ago. Recently a deacon expressed concern that we were not contributing more to the general fund. It makes me uncomfortable to think that deacons are talking about how much people are giving and whether it is sufficient. Is this what happens in the CRC?

Three years after starting a Christmas gift donation program, Fellowship Christian Reformed Church in Big Rapids, Mich., is seeing local families begin to take part in more of the church’s events and services.

Many have sought to make sense of the extreme polarities that seem to dominate our cultural and political lives.

Canadians Gus and Wynanda Polman set out on a “justice and reconciliation seeking journey” after an unexpected meeting with an executive of the U.S. National Center for Civil and Human Rights.

The hopeful story of one girl’s journey through grief as she learns to celebrate her father in the midst of sadness.

Odd-couple detectives solve coastal town crimes in this British series.