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The 60-credit program will include coursework in religious and theological foundations, clinical counseling, and clinical practice.

The CALL program allows participants to sign up for six-week classes on a variety of subjects, such as the art of Indigenous people, fashion theology, or the writer Virginia Woolf.

U2 has always been looking backwards—no popular artist’s history and biography has been as integral to their art as U2’s has

American Bible Society's Bible-based trauma-healing program, including this leader’s guide, helps people explore their heart wounds and heal from the pain of trauma.

Our children are visual learners, but so much in our worship and church programming is word-based. What's a parent to do?

So many people in our culture live with deep regret and defeat rather than hope and contentment and joy.

Get this month's list of books, movies, streaming shows, and music to check out.

 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.