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Emily Ottenhoff, a member of Hope Christian Reformed Church in Oak Forest, Ill., was named an NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Associat

Scott Brown, 50, who attends New England Chapel, a Christian Reformed Church in Franklin, Mass., won the Massachusetts senate seat left v

Six members of Grace Fellowship Christian Reformed Church in Pella, Iowa, arrived in Haiti just in time to feel the earth move on Jan.

The Jan.

When the January 12 earthquake shook Haiti, it also shook Paul and Marisa Brinks, members of Calvary Christian Reformed Church in Holland

Jenny Reks, Todd Pihl, Lynn Duquette, and Jane Howard—all members of New England Chapel, a Christian Reformed church in Franklin, M

Just days after the Jan.

The Christian Reformed presence in Haiti started when Rev.

George and Toni Fernhout were not surprised when they got an early-morning phone call the day after an earthquake devastated Haiti.

Hope and horror were among the emotions felt by many Christian Reformed Church members as news of the devastating Jan.

According to a radio report, a middle school in Oregon was faced with a unique problem.

I was walking past the youth room in a church I used to attend when I overheard the following: “Why do we have to study the Heidelb

The journey of grief is arduous. It is exhausting, seems never-ending, and is filled with anguish and suffering.

What are your favorite signs of spring? Robins? Crocuses?

“I wish he’d get rid of all that junk!” my mom often said of my dad when I was growing up.

Beauty has increasingly become a stranger to many of us.

Church

Q. Our pastor has been here well over a decade.

Got Religion?

It’s articles such as “Got Religion?” (January 2010) that ease my own discomfort with no longer b

When synod encouraged Christian Reformed churches to study the Belhar Confession—in view of the CRC’s potential adoption of i

have a friend with whom I hesitate to be seen.

What have you done for the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee lately?

Synod 2008

Thanks for the thorough and balanced coverage of synod. What a rich denomination we are part of!

We wish we’d had enough room to run the full versions (below) of these two letters in the February 2010 print Banner.