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Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron Age world through the suspenseful dual narrative of a boy and girl both battling to survive.

With guns at the ready, men in military uniforms were running through his family’s compound in South Sudan.

Despite Rajan’s high status and material success, his actions left him feeling spiritually exhausted and even afraid.

‘We wanted to bridge a gap’ said NAE’s director of racial justice and reconciliation collaborative.

The CRC’s Adrian Jacobs reflects on his former parishioner, Indigenous artist Jace Martin, whose Beautiful Broken Pieces album was released in September 2023.

Does God want us to create computers with artificial intelligence even though he gave us perfectly good brains to do the work ourselves?

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Eight Ontario churches and one in Iowa are helping each other over the next eight months to be “profoundly welcoming and hospitable to the LGBTQ+ community” while honoring the parameters of the CRC’s recent human sexuality report.

A Canadian memoirist tells the story of her immigrant father’s faith, even as he suffered from ALS.

The debut picture book by Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author Matthew McConaughey

Malcolm Guite reads poems and other classic literature from his enchanting library.

This timely and thought-provoking story about a teen girl shouldering impossibly large responsibilities and ultimately learning that she doesn’t have to do it alone is the perfect follow-up to Daniel Aleman's award-winning debut novel, Indivisible.

Named for a place where fresh water and salt water mix, Estuary is a movement of conversation groups, and Pastor Paul VanderKlay thinks every church should have one.

Exploring the interconnectedness of faith and love.

The Korean Christian Reformed Church of St. Louis (Mo.) is the first Korean congregation of the Christian Reformed Church in North America in the state.

A pastor with a great sense of humor who thought deeply about theology and loved communicating the gospel message, George Mossel died Aug. 21. He was 78.

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This simple concept of shalom as “the way things ought to be” has given me a lot of personal satisfaction in the work we have done on our home.

Rest, whether it’s sleeping or just taking a break, is important for our physical and spiritual health.

A young woman entering 1882 New York City's rigid social scene is drawn into the daily conflicts surrounding the new-money Russell family and the established van Rhijn-Brook family, who are neighbors.

A delicious picture book about the ways plantains shape Latin culture, community, and family, told through a young girl’s experiences in the kitchen with her abuela.

A shared love for the culture of sacred music brought thousands of Christians to Keith and Kristyn Getty's Nashville, Tenn., hymn conference.

Our Christian Reformed church called a minister from the Reformed Church in America, and the RCA church in town called a CRC minister. Is that allowed?