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The board of Bethany Christian Services approved “a nationwide policy of inclusivity in order to serve all families across Bethany’s core service lines” Jan. 20. It announced the move to staff March 1.

The United Methodist Church, one of the largest denominations in the United States, has once again postponed its quadrennial meeting due to the COVID-19 pandemic, delaying further a widely anticipated vote by delegates on a proposal to split the denomination.

Beckwith Hills Christian Reformed Church, in Grand Rapids, Mich., did a neighborhood assessment as part of the Church Renewal Lab. Efforts to build a new playground and make continuing community connections are a result.

Two or three times each year, Christian Reformed churches send representatives to their classis, a regional group of churches. Here is the report of classis meetings of the past several months.

On that wintery day last year, my happy face not only showed a complete naivety of the soon-approaching pandemic, but also bore no knowledge of the tsunami of grief that would crash into my world.

Orland Park CRC has collaborated with World Renew DRS for over a dozen years, specializing in “whole-house build” projects in several disaster-affected locations. 

In this two- to three-minute podcast, listeners are given a quote that will motivate, uplift, and renew their outlook on life.

In her fifth solo album, Kim Walker-Smith of Jesus Culture explores themes of life, beginning again, and returning to our First Love.

A 2020 American superhero horror film based on the Marvel Comics team of the same name.

No sooner had we taken our pictures than dark clouds socked in the mountains and their valleys.

In some ways we all just want to be happy—to have a jump in our stride, a smile on our face, a warm feeling in the chest.

In these past 25 years, there is a generation of women who tell stories of living into their Spirit-led calling.

Can you be a Christian, a Jesus follower, and not be a missionary?

Consejo Latino, an active network of Hispanic ministry leaders within the Christian Reformed Church and beyond, is connecting and training pastors seeking ordination in the CRC and helping interested churches to affiliate with the denomination.

Following the release of an independent investigation concluding sexual misconduct by international ministry founder Ravi Zacharias, the Christian and Missionary Alliance has revoked his ordination; Ravi Zacharias International Ministries Canada is disbanding.

Peter Kang’s life as a longtime minister and missionary was marked by a passionate dedication to Jesus Christ. He died Feb. 11.

Haydn Shaw, popular business speaker and generational expert, identifies 12 places where the five generations typically come apart in the workplace (and in life as well).

In Pixar’s latest film, a music teacher played by Jamie Foxx looks for his life’s meaning on earth and in “The Great Before.”

On his first train ride, Michael meets a new friend from the “whites only” car in the last story in a trilogy about the author’s life growing up in the segregated South.

Just like no cow heads would ever grow out of recipients because of the cowpox vaccination, some of the modern-day concerns have been unfounded as well.

We need to seek out people and, by a process of mutual engagement, release the spark placed in them through the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Bible is filled with stories of men and women of all ages and from unexpected places who are used by God as part of God’s big plan.

The definitive guide to fighting coronaviruses, colds, flus, pandemics, and deadly diseases, from one of North America’s leading public health authorities, now updated.