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Emeritus Calvin University prof Kurt Ver Beek’s Association for a More Just Society is helping shape the methods of nonprofits in Honduras and other locations grappling with violence and police corruption.

How can we learn to control our appetites (which are natural and originally good, and yet bad when they’re out of control) so that we don’t end up defined and dominated by them?

We have been saved by grace to be ambassadors of Christ’s mercy to this broken and hurting world.

As a Seminary student working to be a missionary someday, I'm excited to get hands-on experience in a region of the world I've never visited.

A child psychologist by training, Dobson made the crossover from academia to religious-oriented culture making with his 1977 founding of Focus on the Family.

Christian hitmaker Jason Gray remixes his most beloved songs in an all-acoustic record.

Why had I never written to him? How could I not have?

About to begin its third season hosting the Ada (Mich.) Homeschool Hub, Ada CRC is having a new life as a community resource.

Written in lyrical rhyme and filled with delightful animal illustrations, this gentle book offers loving, childlike blessings.

An art thief, his sister, and a nephew go on a quest in this caper movie starring John Krasinski and Natalie Portman.

To settle her family's debts and secure a suitable marriage for her sister, a colonial American indigo heiress is forced to wed a Scottish merchant she loathes.

No country in the world has gone as far as Canada in enabling people to die if they want to.

A stunning exploration of Anne Frank’s life before she and her family went into hiding, by critically acclaimed, bestselling author Alice Hoffman.

From sunup to sundown, I meet endless crossroads where I must choose whether to be ruled by impulse or restraint.

The help I once thought was readily and unreservedly available is not. And some of those I once thought were willing to provide whatever was necessary in order to preserve precious human life have proved not to be so willing.

Owen Sound (Ont.) Hunger and Relief Effort has relied on community and church support to distribute its running total of 1 million meals to citizens in need.

Chad Werkhoven, pastor of Worthington (Minn.) Christian Reformed Church, has produced confession-based Bible reading guides for his congregation for three years. They’re inviting others to join in.

The inspiring true story of how one visionary woman used children’s books to help heal a generation of Germany’s children after WWII.

FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham is assigned to the bureau's Fringe Division, in which she investigates unusual crimes and occurrences.

This book points out the beauty and ubiquity of our limitations; the importance of accessibility; the interconnected nature of individual and public health; and the wisdom we have gained from living with our particular bodies.

Christopher Watkin, a senior lecturer in French studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, will give the 2025 Stob Lecture on Nov. 18.

First Reformed Church in South Holland, Ill., now has dual affiliation with the RCA and the Christian Reformed Church.

Two kindred spirits embark on a beautiful journey through Africa in this faith-based fiction from Robin Jones Gunn.