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My next-door neighbor and I are both moms in our 30s with kids close in age. I’ve tried to form a friendship with her, but she is not interested even in casually chatting. I am disappointed. What should I do?

The Christian Reformed Church recognizes nine congregations across the U.S. as union, or dually affiliated, churches with the Reformed Church in America. Following the RCA’s General Synod in mid-October, some are contemplating their associations.

Jim Gehrels, a member of Bethlehem Christian Reformed Church in Thunder Bay, Ont., who co-founded the well-drilling charity, Lifewater Canada, has received a posthumous meritorious service medal from the governor general of Canada.

Brian D. McLaren proposes a four-stage model of faith development in which questions and doubt are not the enemy of faith but rather a portal to a more mature and fruitful kind of faith.

King Arthur's headstrong nephew embarks on a daring quest to confront the Green Knight, a mysterious giant who appears at Camelot.

Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history. Grades 3-6.

One of my friends reflected: at the end of our lives, what relationship will we have with our kids and others?

After briefly weighing whether to strike up a conversation, he leaned over and said, “Pardon me, I heard you say ‘Grand Rapids.’ I lived there for eight years.”

Can we be bound together by the power of the Holy Spirit as one body even though our physical bodies are forced to be separate?

A group of celebrated female authors, artists, and songwriters collaborate on an album-length response to God’s faithfulness to women throughout Scripture and in their own lives.

Many aspiring actors, directors, or screenwriters have found the City of Angels to be hell on earth.

I found that when students spoke about Christianity with people of other belief systems, they often reduced their faith to actions.

Our society’s growing understanding of the significance of community seems to resonate with Scripture and God’s desire for God’s world.

In the first Korean drama to hit No. 1 on Netflix, hundreds of cash-strapped contestants accept an invitation to compete in children's games for a tempting prize, but the stakes are deadly.

Jesus ascended to heaven. End of story. But then how do we explain the many Christians, in nearly every century since, who claimed to have seen, heard, met, and touched Jesus in the flesh?

This picture book about The Green Book tells the story of the man behind it and how this travel guide opened the road for a safer, more equitable America.

I want this article to focus on the positive, since focusing on the positive can improve a person’s perspective.

The Faith Communities Today survey found that half of America’s congregations had 65 or fewer people in attendance on any given weekend, a drop from a median attendance level of 137 people in 2000.

In Sioux County, Iowa, a community group of librarians sponsored a panel discussion on vaccinations. They invited a pastor and two professors to participate.

The Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates anticipates returning to in-person, cross border meetings in 2022, necessitating a discussion about how to mitigate potential transmission of the still-circulating coronavirus.

Using funds from its reserves, Resonate Global Mission has established a designated fund to cover costs and support for victims related to allegations of abuse.

A budget deficit of $1.5 million to fund Christian Reformed shared ministry required the denomination’s governance board to review planned strategies to overcome it.

A committee tasked with making design changes to the upcoming synod got a green-light for most of its proposals but is urged to keep technology to a minimum.