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Author Dominique DuBois Gilliard talks about the history of incarceration and the role of the church.

Growing up in a Dominican home in Miami meant that when dinnertime rolled around, I could expect a plateful of rice and beans with a serving of news headlines . . .

He validated his agnosticism by naming all the ways “the church” and “Christianity” had hurt people . . .

Every October our church has a Stewardship Sunday with a sermon about giving money to the church.

A long-running collaboration between The River Christian Reformed Church and Lugonia Elementary School in Redlands, Calif., has earned the partners recognition from the California School Boards Association.

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Carole Boston Weatherford’s newest picture book subtly deals with racial discrimination while capturing the hopes and dreams of every mother.

How should Christians respond to the Muslim immigrants in their midst?

About 50 people met together March 10 to focus on facing the new realities of life after 30 to 40 years of work experiences. 

Lucknow Community Christian Reformed Church has served as a pick-up venue for the Good Food Box program for more than 15 years.

John Swinton urged listeners to reassess the ways in which the church ministers to people with mental health concerns.

The first participants of Peer-to-Peer, a new Resonate Global Mission program aimed at building interfaith understanding, returned a few months ago from a two-week trip to the Middle East.

These psalms remind us that God hears our sorrows and our questions, and Kimbrough does not shy away from hard questions.

Marilynne Robinson’s nonfiction takes dead aim at the stories we Americans tell ourselves about ourselves and about our mother country.

The weathered and white-haired Christian Reformed elder says to my father, “This is the true church!” 

The Christian Reformed Church needs an official position on gun culture.

The Cleveland and Akron churches will always remember the ministry of  Rev. Emmitt A. Harrison.

On March 6, 1957, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was in Accra. 

With more than 2 billion users worldwide, what could possibly be wrong with Facebook, the free social media service invented to bring us closer to each other?

“Sermons a la carte” connects Christians from different traditions once a week throughout Lent.

Members of Trinity Christian Reformed Church in Grandville, Mich., and members of Rosedale Park Baptist Church in Detroit met, talked, and prayed together about race and faith.

In Waterloo, Ont., church members from multiple regions heard from public educators and discussed how to create safer communities.

This adult novel introduces readers to the dark underbelly of the global fashion industry, as well as to the lives of two men who are longing for grace and redemption.