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From the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s to the #MeToo movement of the 2010s, we live in a world where we are bombarded with sexual messages at every turn.

There is even science to back up what we know just by experience: there is a calming effect from walking in a forest.

I would be lying if I said I am not worried or stressed by this pandemic and its social and economic consequences. But I am not panicking or hoarding because I trust in God.

Staff at Calvin University's Center for Social Research released a set of tools to help make the data around the spread of COVID-19 more approachable.

Whom should I marry? Which job should I take? Even though I pray, I don’t know.

The image in Matt. 25:36 of ministering to Jesus when visiting the sick or in prison is fitting for Bill Van Staalduinin, who volunteers with Yokefellow Prison Ministry from Terra Ceia Christian Reformed Church in Pantego, N. C.

While caring for her terminally-ill Aunt Louise, Nori stumbles on a mystery related to her aunt’s medical fellowship at a tuberculosis sanitorium in the Adirondacks in the 1950s.

Netflix’s attempt at YA fantasy is a big journey in search of an interesting hero

Members of Ocheyedan (Iowa) Christian Reformed Church Cadet club carry on a yearly tradition of erecting three crosses on the Ocheyedan Mound.

Sunrise Community Church’s Navigation Center is one of the only still-operating services to homeless people in South Austin, Texas, during the COVID-19 outbreak.

One reporter’s experience researching and writing an article before and after the COVID-19 pandemic hit North America.

Breathless, Lily pauses and then warmly says, “Mary!” just as Jesus would have.

Synod 2020, the annual leadership meeting of the Christian Reformed Church, has been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This Easter, there will be none of that. No large family gatherings around brightly decorated shared tables, no community egg hunts for excited young children, no overflowing churches filled with praise.

The author and illustrator of The Jesus Storybook Bible team up to create a picture book set based on Psalm 23 and the Lord’s Prayer.

Painter Paul Cézanne develops a strong friendship with writer Émile Zola in 19th-century France.

A podcast looks for the ancient influences in contemporary entertainment

A realistic, gut-wrenching novel for young adults that offers a painful, yet hope-infused, picture of a Vietnamese refugee girl’s experiences. 

Actress Claire Danes provides an engaging reading of Emily Wilson’s first-rate translation of Homer’s epic poem.

New movie releases, oldies but goodies, and more, now available for streaming at home.

Darren Roorda, Canadian Ministries Director of the Christian Reformed Church, was one of more than 80 Canadian religious leaders to sign a joint statement to Canadians this week, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Christian Reformed congregations from British Columbia to Michigan and Ontario are ministering, with and without technology, as physical distancing orders persist to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Congregations such as Zion Christian Reformed Church in Oshawa, Ont., and  All Nations CRC in Halifax, N.S., are learning to use dance in worship.