Author Maja Lunde weaves together the stories of three families who live in different places and historical periods, their narratives linked by an unlikely source: bees.
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Soul of a Woman, the final album from Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, reflects on the joys, pains, challenges, and triumphs of her life before she passed away from cancer...
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Our deacons are promoting electronic funds transfer (EFT) as a giving option for our church.
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When I was a 10-year-old, Psalm 90 was my favorite psalm. I knew it as the hymn “O God, Our Help in Ages Past.”
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The Hebrew title for the book of Psalms is Tehillim, which means “songs of praise.” Psalm 150 says, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lᴏʀᴅ.”
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Christopher Meehan’s book Growing Pains: How Racial Struggles Changed a Church and School documents the impact of a group of African-American parents from Lawndale CRC...
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As the Nazis continued to conquer Europe in 1940, it became obvious that England was the next target.
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We asked our reviewers to offer the top five titles they enjoyed most in 2017 in a number of categories.
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Ninety years after it was first published, a computer-animated, feature-length film has been released based on the classic children’s book The Story of Ferdinand.
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We asked Phil Christman, who teaches English at the University of Michigan and attends St. Clare's Episcopal Church in Ann Arbor, Mich., to offer the top five essays he enjoyed most in 2017.
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We asked our reviewers to offer the top five titles they enjoyed most in 2017 in a number of categories.
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In the summer of 1959, 12-year-old Cammie, nicknamed Cannonball, lives above the Hancock County Prison with her father, the warden.
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We asked our reviewers to offer the top five titles they enjoyed most in 2017 in a number of categories.
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We asked our reviewers to offer the top five titles they enjoyed most in 2017 in a number of categories.
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In December 2012, Tain Gregory was in his third grade class at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., when a 20-year-old man shot and killed 20 children and six adults,...
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We asked our reviewers to offer the top five titles they enjoyed most in 2017 in a number of categories.
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A minister of the Word is to feed the flock, not feed on it.
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Last Sunday morning my wife expressed some displeasure with me, and I responded defensively.
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Speaking truth to power—and to each other.
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Never get in a swordfight with a sword swallower.
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Kelley Nikondeha experienced the “sacrament of belonging” early in her life when she was adopted by her parents.
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An oak tree named Red, the narrator of this juvenile novel, has been watching the world go by for more than two centuries.
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It’s strange that the traditional forms for baptism used in the Christian Reformed Church never mention the baptism of Jesus.