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One of those things we’ve started to worship is politics.

Naturally, we want to showcase our strength. But Paul reminds the whole church that the good news resonates best when we are weak, needy, vulnerable, and unpolished.

As of 2024, there are 384 church disability advocates, representing about 40% of the churches, and 23 out of 49 classes have a regional disability advocate.

The Mixed Media editor picks four worthy reads to enrich Black History Month, from a propulsive multigenerational saga to a faith-based novel based on real-life events during Reconstruction.

After the devastating 2019 fire at Notre Dame, two sarcophaguses were discovered under the cathedral’s stone floor. Follow a team of archaeologists and historians as they attempt to solve centuries-old mysteries.

In this tender picture book, a trip to the library turns into an adventure in kindness and a reminder that people experiencing homelessness deserve compassion and respect.

Their unique voices and perspectives continue to shape and strengthen the seminary as a global community committed to expanding God’s kingdom.

With ministry share giving down, the Council of Delegates of the Christian Reformed Church is considering “ways to reduce governance costs, fund synod, and use time wisely.” A report will come in May.

Summary: A recent meeting of the COD included reviewing and sending back for edits a proposed update to the process for receiving exceptions to the Statement of Beliefs of the Christian Reformed Church. It ended with a unison, virtual reciting of the CRCNA’s mission statement

Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield were the three most prominent early evangelicals—and all three were deeply compromised on the issue of slavery.

This podcast invites us to see the entertainment in between the pages of classic novels.

All of us have discussed sermons—at Grandma’s house, in church meetings, or in conversation with family or friends.

For 1,700 years, the Nicene Creed has been believed and memorized and confessed by Christians as a standard of their faith.

Eighty years ago, as a little boy, I experienced the sadness and the sin of a church split.

Roger Evans, outreach director at New Hope Fellowship in Monroe, Wash., helps people in his city experiencing homelessness find stability, resources, and hope.

A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an enslaved girl escape, in volatile pre-Civil War Philadelphia.

A new streaming series explores how a father grieved Pan Am Flight 103, the flight of grief, now more poignant in light of recent plane crashes.

When a baby is left on her doorstep, formerly Amish doctor Ruth Stoltzfus must confront the state of her marriage and a life out of balance.

Calvin professor Cory Willson’s book Work and Worship: Reconnecting Our Labor and Liturgy has been influential for churches seeking to integrate the daily work of believers into Sunday worship.

Experience the struggles, sorrows, triumphs, and hopes of real people who survived one of the darkest periods of American history.

A meditative album recorded between first light and dawn.

We all want God’s help, but something deeper in our hearts must happen to us to be able to want God’s hold.

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