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When 26-year-old farmer and youth elder Josh Lubach from Ponoka, Alberta, politely agreed to an interview for this column, he was happy t

John Calvin shaped the Reformed faith, worldview, and church government.

“This time I’m going to do better.”

The words come muttered with determination, filled with equal parts guilt a

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the most interesting. This month we’ll take a look at something we see and use every day.

Theology

Q: When does the end justify the means?

A: Such “end-means” thinking comes from Utilitarian theorie

Theology

Q When does the end justify the means?

Muhammad was respected as an upright man by those who knew him.

The Christian Reformed Church continues on its dangerous journey.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

—Psalm 139:13

Where Did Our Young Adults Go?

The article “Where did our Young Adults Go?” (August 2007) brings out a problem that m

A husband asked his wife how she thought he’d look in a beard.
“Lonely,” she replied.

In 2005 the annual leadership convention of our denomination, synod, challenged Christian Reformed congregations to make faith nurture, o

It’s easy to be cynical about spiritual memoirs as publishers seem to mine the market for all its worth.

A Calvin College communications arts and sciences professor and two students traveled to a Quechua community in Ecuador recently to make

As a Christian Reformed campus minister at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich., Mike Wissink spends much of his time praying wit

The Christian church in the Holy Land is made up mostly of Palestinian Christians who have kept the faith since the days of the early chu

The CRC’s vision statement begins: “The Christian Reformed Church is a diverse body of healthy congregations, assemblies, and

Canceling Sunday morning services is not the usual way to plant a church.

It’s been quite a year!

The Christian Reformed Church’s 150th anniversary, with its theme of “Grace Through Eve

Imagine that you have just arrived in Grand Rapids, Mich., from Edmonton, Alberta, as a first-year student at Calvin Theological Seminary

Tom Buursma served as a church planting missionary in the Philippines for four-and-a-half years before enrolling at Calvin Theological Se

How focusing on person, perspective, and practice helps

“We need pastors who know how to lead a congregation!”