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Authenticity means hard work, which is something ChatGPT doesn’t know.

For almost 50 years, Habitat for Humanity has inspired people from different backgrounds—who often can’t agree on anything—to work together for their neighbors’ benefit.

A user-friendly guide to the matters and documents for Synod 2023, to be addressed when the synod convenes June 9-15, 2023 in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Meeting in a place where Indigenous culture is embedded into everyday life, delegates to the Canadian National Gathering of the CRCNA will focus their time on cultural exchange as settlers and Indigenous people.

Bethany Christian Reformed Church in Muskegon, Mich., launched “Common Grounds,” a no-cost pop-up coffee stand to connect with students at Muskegon Community College.

White’s Chapel plans to invite others to join the Methodist Collegiate Church once its disaffiliation is approved by Central Texas United Methodists next month.

I have four main beliefs in regards to how we should navigate the increasing polarization in our denomination.

This emotionally gripping, fast-paced middle-grade novel is an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Honor Book.

Amid an international crisis, a career diplomat juggles her new high-profile job as ambassador to the United Kingdom and her turbulent marriage to a political star.

Introduce the concept of justice to young people with this picture book by New York Times-bestselling author of Doing Justice, Preet Bharara.

I'm drawn to the concept of integrated living. … I am a whole person, and that means that I bring all of who I am into everything I do.

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A daughter writes alongside her late mother (using journal entries and notes), exploring the transformative way in which sharing food is at the heart of a shared life.

In this diverse picture book, a young immigrant from South Korea finds community and friendship in an apartment building filled with other newly arrived kids.

Are officebearers in the Christian Reformed Church required to teach only penal substitutionary atonement theory, or may they explain other atonement theories?

The conflict over sexuality in the CRC is a symptom of deeper cultural divisions.

Four books to enrich AAPI month, from a modern classic by Amy Tan to an international bestseller about a time-travel cafe in Japan.

Brilliant attorney Woo Young-woo tackles challenges in the courtroom and beyond as a newbie at a top law firm and a woman on the autism spectrum.

About a third of the formal requests coming to Synod 2023 touch on decisions made by last year’s synod on the human sexuality report. Four groups have differing hopes for how synod will respond and different plans for communicating about it.

“Lead Like a Boss,” a new nonprofit designed to prepare young women with leadership skills, was inspired by a CRC member’s experience teaching an interim course at an Illinois Christian high school.

A kind-hearted pastor who lived by a motto “to be Christlike with a servant heart,” Henry Numan died April 6. He was 81.

Meeting June 9-16 in the Calvin University Chapel, Synod 2023 will revisit decisions from 2022, receive two reports deferred from 2020, and address numerous questions of confessional alignment.