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The Iowa communities of Orange City and Sioux Center presented a joint service of remembrance this Memorial Day. Pastors Cory Van Sloten and Jordan Helming, both serving military chaplains, participated.

When we reflect on our life stories, it often becomes clear that God had a bigger plan in mind.

This type of community is central to creating new relationships and thriving in a new country. Like most immigrants today, those in the CRC’s history could not make the transition alone.

John Witvliet, director of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, and others comment on studies showing a possible link to a higher rate of coronavirus spread when singing in groups.

Worship leader Cody Carnes offers a soaring, emotional new praise album.

A novel explores the lives of the five widows of Operation Auca.

Abraham Kuiper warned that “if social developments continue to follow the present course, life on earth will become less and less a heaven and more and more a hell.”

We cannot lump all LGBTQ+ people into one category—just like we cannot lump all straight people into one category.

A coincidence? I’m thinking not. I’m going to guess an algorithm got yesterday’s story almost right, but not quite.

The true story of how a ride on a carousel made a powerful Civil Rights statement

A beautiful publicist and a handsome rock climber start a coffee company together in this clean romance from RITA award-winning author Carla Laureano.

The Queen of England has been kidnapped, and only Sherlock Holmes can find her.

A new articulation of “Reformed Christian commitment” for trustees, administrators, and faculty of Calvin University, in Grand Rapids, Mich., looks for demonstration of Reformed beliefs, not necessarily membership in a Christian Reformed or CRC-affiliated church.

The Christian Reformed Church’s international development ministry is remembering John DeHaan, director of then-Christian Reformed World Relief Committee from 1978 to 1998. He died May 7.

When contagion emptied the cathedral, people painted Mary and Jesus huddled in alcoves and on the walls of streets hardly more than alleys. Prayer continued there.

Community initiatives from Christian Reformed churches across Canada are getting a $40,000 boost thanks to local ministry grants from World Renew and Diaconal Ministries Canada.

Christian evangelist and apologist Ravi Zacharias, founder of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, died May 19.

The goal is to provide easy-to-watch, concentrated reflections on how to do some of the most basic—but also some of the most important—parts of preaching better.

A gorgeously written tour of the four seasons and God’s presence in every moment.

This historical novel for middle-grade readers touches on some difficult experiences faced by Americans in the 1940s—poverty, WW2, and Polio.

This documentary follows the cross-cultural conflicts that develop when a Chinese automotive glass company buys a former GM plant in Ohio.

Psalm 109:6 essentially reads, “Condemn my enemies, and may all the devils of hell welcome them with open arms.”

Insurance companies are primed to play an increasingly influential role for houses of worship as legislators ease social distancing restrictions and faith groups prepare to reopen their doors. Religion News Service spoke with two insurers.