Pastor, professor, writer, translator, editor and Holy Land tour guide, Sierd Woudstra died March 22. He was 92.
Youth groups and children's ministries within Christian Reformed congregations are meeting the challenge of COVID-19 lockdown measures with creativity.
12 Books for Summer Reading 2020
God sings? Who knew? And he sings to us!
I was talking with some senior members of my church the other day. They were asked to give a talk to our high school youth group.
Covid-19 has put public health into practical terms for us today. People everywhere are being asked to think of their communities above themselves and stay home and limit contact with others.
In the Bible, God gave Samson back his power, and Samson used that power to kill himself. Does this mean that sometimes it’s OK to commit suicide?
God’s redemptive work in the lives of three families faced with tragedy.
When a young Jewish woman runs away from her Hasidic community in Brooklyn, her husband and cousin follow her to Germany to bring her home.
A stunning novel following three fierce, unforgettable Southern women in the years leading up to the Great Depression
A veteran memoirist asks would-be writers, “Why not learn to tell your story, in the context of the grander story of God?”
The Table, an emerging Christian Reformed church in Denver, Colo., adapted two spring planting traditions to keep physical distancing protocols amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eighteen pastors from Christian Reformed churches in Classis Zeeland prepared a recorded prayer service to share with their congregation members at home.
What are we to do when our regular structures of corporate worship have been upended and public gatherings are prohibited?
The Bible is replete with examples of partnerships and exhortations to work together in all things.
The Bridge in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., which launched Sunday services in the fall, hosted a COVID-19-compliant drive-in service for Easter 2020, reaching 800 people in their cars and 3,000 online.
Newbery Medal-winning author Patricia MacLachlan’s poignant text and rustic illustrations paint the picture of a beautiful red barn and the people who call it home.
From time to time I will write my own psalms as prayers or reflective praises to God.
Christian music hitmaker JJ Weeks embarks on a solo career with an effervescent 6-song EP.
Rev. Myung Jae Lee, a pastor who devoted his life to studying, teaching and expanding God’s kingdom, died March 12. He was 99.
From the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s to the #MeToo movement of the 2010s, we live in a world where we are bombarded with sexual messages at every turn.
There is even science to back up what we know just by experience: there is a calming effect from walking in a forest.
I would be lying if I said I am not worried or stressed by this pandemic and its social and economic consequences. But I am not panicking or hoarding because I trust in God.
Staff at Calvin University's Center for Social Research released a set of tools to help make the data around the spread of COVID-19 more approachable.