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Two churches, connected through seven years of past work trips and separated by lack of travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, came together in worship March 21.

Though not convening this year, the Agenda for Synod 2021 has been released. It contains 14 overtures and three communications related to the human sexuality report. One, by a group of students, was submitted by three different assemblies.

I have discovered that in the land of the lonely, one has an immense wardrobe of masks. It makes me wonder what the true face underneath is.

For nearly two decades, RELEVANT Magazine remains at the forefront of media for Christian young adults.

In this moving nonfiction picture book, children learn Sachiko Yasui’s story of surviving the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and her message of peace to a young audience.

The debut studio album by American contemporary worship musician Brandon Lake.

Ralph Bruxvoort, who preached, taught, and lived out a theology centered on God's unconditional love and grace, died March 23.

In our interconnected world, actions we take now affect not only our own backyards, farms, and cities, but also distant places and peoples extending centuries into the future.

In a sense, I had embraced All Lives Matter as a movement many years ago.

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My church expects parents to help in children’s worship once a month. Is that necessary? What do we gain and what do we lose?

Ben Wiersma, preaching intern at Sibley (Iowa) Christian Reformed Church, and new member of the local ministerial association, was one of several participants in the association’s revised Easter weekend plan.

Recent reports about instances of bullying and threatening communication received by staff of the Christian Reformed Church’s Office of Social Justice have raised questions about what’s going on and why.

A deeply personal and pastoral book on how to detect abusive systems.

A dying novelist makes a final effort to connect with son in an artful faith-based film.

A riveting 21st-century morality play about a megachurch pastor and his secrets.

Why have differing expectations recently caused friction in some churches?

The Religious Exemption Accountability Project filed a lawsuit March 29. It says the Dept. of Education is complicit in “abuses and unsafe conditions thousands of LGBTQ+ students endure at hundreds of taxpayer-funded, religious colleges and universities.”

Ayan and her four children arrived in Canada as refugees in the midst of the pandemic.

The full-length debut from Minneapolis-based husband/wife Christian folk-pop duo Him + Her

A Western Seminary professor with incurable cancer calls us to embrace our mortality in our daily life and faith.

Firsthand Retellings of the Infamous Bank Robbery Thrill in This Five-Part Podcast

When we look at the world today with all its problems, from wars and racism to abortion and climate change, we are tempted to despair.