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Carrie Underwood releases a gospel album of cherished hymns.

In Meg Medina’s follow-up to her Newbery Medal–winning novel, Merci takes on seventh grade, with all its travails of friendship, family, love—and finding your rhythm.

King & Country revisit their golden “Burn the Ships” record with collaborations and remixes.

Doesn’t God grant us faith by grace? Why do we need to “form” faith?

A place of beauty and wonder. Stark contrasts and high drama. Secrets and mystery.

Anger over issues is always present in our churches. That doesn’t make it right; in fact, it is wrong.

Martial arts master Shang-Chi confronts the past he thought he left behind when he's drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

A lively, rhythmic picture book about a little girl visiting her grandfather who is a pregonero—a singing street vendor in Cuba—and helping him sell his frutas.

A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of World War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and—decades later—a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma.

Sharing information is more efficient than ever, but sadly the church is again fragmenting at a whole new level.

The Canada Corporation of the Christian Reformed Church in North America approved a new senior leader for Indigenous Justice and Reconciliation and appointed a new national committee for anti-racism and intercultural conciliation.

The “Encourage, Equip & Inspire” event at Delavan Christian Reformed Church in Delavan, Wisc., brought leaders together for workshops about faith formation.

A letter from seven different Christian groups, including the Christian Reformed Church’s Office of Race Relations, supports the formation of a federal commission on historic Indian boarding school policy.

A young Dominican American girl in New York City moves from jealousy to empathy as her parents babysit children whose families work overnight shifts in this honest and warm picture book debut.

Michael Canaan’s debut EP quiets the soul with faith-filled jazz.

If you take a quick stroll outside, it won’t be long before you come across a seed that will grow into something great.

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How can you possibly cope when it so regularly feels like you are lost in the dark, and the light on the other side is all but hidden from you?

Governments in more than 80% of the represented countries harassed religious groups in some way, though use of force was less common, a new Pew study found.

The CRC generally has viewed the oath lodge members take as akin to a confession of faith in its theology, lore, and liturgies.

The Kingdom Network, a collective of churches focused on multiplying disciples, training leaders, and planting churches, launched Sept. 9, 2021.

Two firefighters, two police officers, and a photojournalist from their congregation worked at the recovery site of the Surfside condo collapse. South Kendall Community Church in Miami, Fla., wanted to recognize the impact of their work.

Pastor Abby Norman unpacks the power of lament, providing us with the tools and the grace-filled permission to heal the problems we have been ignoring for too long