Twenty participants with special needs, 20 mentors, and countless other volunteers spent last week SERVE-ing in Ottawa, Ont., Canada’s capital city.
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River Rock Church, a Christian Reformed congregation in Rockford, Mich., is showing outdoor movies as a way to help the community become familiar with its location.
Pastor, professor, missionary, pilot, gardener, skilled builder, and talented woodworker, James Calvin De Young was a man who enjoyed new challenges and liked to keep busy.
Several U.S.-based religious denominations remain defiant in the face of new laws that would ban them from proselytizing in Russia.
When I was growing up, my dad took me to see Chariots of Fire, the Oscar-winning 1981 film about Olympic runner, Eric Liddell.
In 1995, a jury decided that O.J. Simpson was not guilty of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a man named Ron Goldman.
The Avalanches’ Since I Left You proved that you could make a truly great record out of other people’s castoffs.
In response to the recent shootings of black men and of police officers, Madison Square Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Mich. held a service of lament on Tuesday, July 12.
Have you commented on, liked, or shared something your church is doing lately?
Approach Bethany Christian Reformed Church in Bellflower, Calif., on weekday mornings this summer and you will see a swarm of kids shooting hoops, or designing experiments, or creating masterpieces.
Angela Reitsma Bick won the 2016 Word Guild award for profile/human interest category for her op-ed article, “Every Moment Holy,” published in December 2015.
Canada’s Anglican Church has provisionally voted to amend its rules to allow clergy to celebrate same-sex marriages, a day after it narrowly defeated the measure.
Ruth Soukup writes from personal experience as she explores why people stuff their lives with material clutter, excessive busyness, and unhealthy relationships, especially on social media.
As the oldest daughter at home, she is expected to help run the house—cooking and cleaning as well as helping her younger siblings with their homeschooling.
The story of Naaman in 2 Kings 5 is one of the most delightful, masterful, and intriguing in the Old Testament.
“I’m wary of anyone who suggests that a constant state of doubt is a legitimate way to live.”
Lots of churches hold carnivals to invite the community for fun and fellowship. But Mountainview Christian Reformed Church in Grimsby, Ont., encourages its members to bring mini-carnivals to their own front lawns
Volunteering at a homeless shelter. Serving food in a soup kitchen. Tutoring kids during an afterschool program at an Arab-American school.
Two Christian high schools from western Michigan won state championships in their respective sports recently.
In 1999, tragedy strikes a North Dakota community when Landreaux Iron accidentally kills his neighbor’s son, Dusty Ravich, while hunting a buck.