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Combining its authors' scientific knowledge, storytelling skills, and insights from theology, Dawn provides a fresh look at the fundamentals of cosmology, evolutionary biology, and the good news of God in one overarching fictional adventure.

It takes the kind of people who are willing to roll up their sleeves and do the dirty work of keeping sheep alive.

While volunteering with a ministry in Greece in 2022, Christian Reformed pastor Peter Armstrong produced a teaching documentary around Acts 17.

Delegates affirmed a decision to expel two Southern Baptist churches, including Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif., because they employed women as pastors.

This beautiful book invites readers to deepen their friendship with Jesus by highlighting his friendships with Mary, Martha, and Lazarus.

Streaming now, this movie starring Tom Hanks is the latest treatment of the 2012 bestselling book A Man Called Ove.

When the German occupation of WWII cracks down on the Danes, two passionate people will discover if there is more power in speech or in silence.

When faced with conflicts over our cherished things, we often default to either “fight” or “flight.” 

Synod 2023 took several significant actions that did not incur much discussion amid the larger impact of debates over last year’s synodical decisions.

“Even as we leave this place with much of the brokenness we came in with still all broke, let’s leave with rejoicing on our lips, because that’s always directed toward God,” Paul DeVries, president of Synod 2023, said.

This kind of community might be seen as unusual or even dangerous to many of us who are used to four walls and a fence.

This plant can’t be left to its own devices or it will overtake every inch of ground it can.

Seeking to earn a Servant Leader Award in Stratford (Ont.) Christian Reformed Church’s Cadet group, 14-year-old Nathaniel led six other cadets in building doorway ramps for several local businesses.

Drawing on passages from the church’s definitive gospel treatise, Paul’s letter to the Romans, J.D. Greear unpacks the essential aspects of the Christian message.

This Canadian biographical comedy-drama film is about the history of the BlackBerry line of mobile phones.

Synod did not sustain an appeal by Neland Avenue CRC to Synod 2022’s order to “immediately rescind its decisions to ordain a deacon in a same-sex marriage.”

After having decided to stay with Synod 2022’s view that including homosexual sex as ‘unchaste’ has confessional status, Synod 2023 debated how to speak love and urge prevention of harm to LGBTQ+ people in the church.

Synod 2023 tried to discuss and decide on how to properly deal with gravamina—something many churches and classes had sent formal requests about. With time running out and delegates feeling unheard, the work of this synod’s committee will instead be passed on to Synod 2024.

Synod 2023 adopted changes to the Church Order proposed by Synod 2022 that make including a deacon in a delegation to synod not mandatory.

Responding to requests from one church and one classis to call churches affirming of same-sex relationships to repentance, Synod 2023 determined such churches should be “guided into compliance.”

Delegate Dave Struyk, Classis Grand Rapids South, left Synod 2023 in protest Thursday “on behalf of the pain that was caused to many LGBTQ+ people.”

After much debate and two views of how to respond, Synod 2023 upheld Synod 2022’s interpretation that “unchastity” in the Heidelberg Catechism includes “homosexual sex” and upheld the “confessional status” of that interpretation.

On Dec. 31, 1989—as the Berlin Wall is coming down, the Soviet Union is falling apart, and anything seems possible—Michael will cross paths with the enigmatic heir to a fading musical dynasty.