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 Just under two months before the 2023 All Ontario Youth Convention was to host an an expected attendance of 800 youth, the planning team canceled the event over questions of the invited speaker’s position on same-sex marriage.

One unlikely man was instrumental in starting two of our great universities: David Brainerd.

A deft and accessible novel for 8- to 12-year-olds that follows a young boy named Aref as he travels from Muscat, Oman, to Ann Arbor, Mich.

A daring teenaged Bangladeshi girl disguises herself as a boy and peddles her father's prized rickshaw for extra cash for her family.

What if true strength were more like the tide: soft and bold, fierce and gentle, moving together as one powerful force?

After a three-year hiatus, an ecumenical choir festival in the Eastern Ontario village of Frankford is “back for good.”

“In no uncertain terms, the Church’s magisterium upholds the respect due to every human being,” the Vatican declared in a statement March 30. Some reacting to the formal rejection of the 15th-century Doctrine of Discovery say more steps are needed toward relationships with Indigenous peoples.

Studies have shown that when women have access to education and employment opportunities, they are more likely to invest in the well-being of their families.

A lyrical picture book debut from New York Times-bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman.

Kristian Stanfill’s new album pivots to the personal with vulnerable, healing lyrics.

Our children look to us as their example for how to live. Through us, they discern a model for how to live as broken people in a broken world.

 I believe God despises how the body of Christ has been divided when the Scriptures have called us to unity.

We are often inclined to judge others about how they deal with their “makeup” simply because they are not made up the way we are.

“Which generations of your ancestors have been involved in the Christian Reformed Church?”

Belief is a true attachment that fastens believers to their Savior in ways unknown to the human eye.

Bob Dylan ruminates on the music and themes of popular music.

A lost ship and an international cast launch this mysterious series

The fascinating life story, told critically but sympathetically, of a paragon of 20th Century white Christian womanhood—and the wife of evangelist Billy Graham.

“If anywhere needs the gospel, it is here,” says church planter Sean Taylor, who for the past two years has mounted a display depicting symbols of Christ’s passion in downtown Lynden, Wash.

Julius Vigh, a faithful pastor and devoted family man, died Nov. 30, 2022, four days after joining family for a final Thanksgiving gathering.

Requests, communications, and actions of the regional assemblies of Christian Reformed churches include calls to pursue ‘scriptural and confessional unity,’ to clarify the use of gravamina, and to revisit the confessional status of a Synod 2022 decision.

A two-decades old compassionate quilt ministry attracted the attention, time—and more than 50 donated quilts—of a West End (Edmonton, Alta.) Christian Reformed Church member.