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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!”

 When Calvary Christian Reformed Church in Holland, Mich., paid off its building debt in 2006, it launched a Year of Jubilee to rais

The Sioux Falls (S.D.) Christian High boy’s golf team captured its third straight state title last spring, with a definite Christia

Rev. Orwin W. Duistermars

1922 – 2007

Rev. Clarence Boomsma

1917 – 2007

Disaster Response Services of the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee has signed a partnership agreement with Reformed Church World

In late July the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that deadly clashes between the ethnic group

Churches from Classis Minnkota (a regional group of congregations) gathered in Edgerton, Minn., to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the

If a group of 45 people who gathered in Washington, D.C., have their way, Christian Reformed congregations are going to hear a lot more a