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“We need to change the way we treat disabled people in church spaces,” said Amy Kenny, a disabled scholar, Shakespeare lecturer, and author.

Get some of our top picks for reading, watching, and listening for March 2023.

Visiting the city, a girl sees how a few packets of seeds, some helping hands, and hard work transform an empty lot in a housing project into a magical place where vegetables grow and family gathers.

What might be signs of the kingdom of God at work?

If the person you are offering care to recognizes and trusts your intentions, they are likely to receive and respond.

A new book reveals rich historical detail about the women of the New Testament.

Too often in history the language of tough love has been abused to justify unloving ideas, actions, and systems. We need to be very careful.

United Kingdom singer-songwriter Philippa Hanna’s beautiful and soothing voice highlights her six-song EP.

A picture book celebrates and teaches positive associations with two important colors: black and brown.

Exiled to Tulsa, an old gangster starts a new life that looks like his old life.

The propulsive story of 10 days in June 2015 when Obama and his chief speechwriter Cody Keenan composed a series of high-stakes speeches to meet a succession of stunning developments.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee has deemed five congregations to be “not in friendly cooperation with the Convention” for having women serve in the role of pastor, against SBC teaching. The decision is appealable.

“Our neighbors see the value of Christians working together,” says one steering committee member of Better Together: A Third Way. He hopes all sides of the same-sex marriage issue inside the CRC would see the value of working together.

Not much has changed since David’s day. There is still a famine of hope.

The Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates finds the large-scale biannual events to be too costly and not popular enough to continue. Council voices in favor of the events urge CRC not to lose emphasis on relationship.

At its February meeting the Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates endorsed an allocation of next year’s ministry shares with 29.5% going to congregational ministries,  27% to the CRC’s governance offices, 19.5 % to Resonate and so on.

The Council of Delegates of the Christian Reformed Church met by video conference Feb. 15-17.

Meeting separately Feb. 16, the boards that govern Christian Reformed Church ministry in the U.S. and in Canada heard reports, discussed nominees, and made plans for continued ministry work in each country.

A treaty was made between the Haudensaunee and the Dutch in 1613. To commemorate this treaty, the Haudensaunee made a two-row wampum treaty belt.

Pádraig Ó Tuama reads and discusses brilliant poems in this illuminating podcast.

he Desert of Compassion provides daily Lenten sustenance inspired by sacred Scripture, present-day teachings, and personal experience.

What’s in a name? Something very important, it seems.

The wise woman did not mock, embarrass, or belittle the man. She waited for the right time to express her opinion to him.