Everyday Christian Teaching
Discover how ordinary moments in the school year can become occasions for making profound connections between faith and pedagogy. Written by Calvin University Professor David Smith.
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Discover how ordinary moments in the school year can become occasions for making profound connections between faith and pedagogy. Written by Calvin University Professor David Smith.
Paddington and the Browns embark on an adventure to Peru to see his Aunt Lucy.
From the bestselling author of Reading While Black comes a sweet and inspiring picture book that weaves together history and faith to help families talk about how everyone—including children—can be a voice for justice.
A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession and the blinding light of hope.
You make one decision for biblical reasons, but then you might run into some contradictions.
The purpose of church discipline is to restore to Christ those who are sinning.
The acclaimed Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir releases a joyful new worship album.
This shares the epic, tragic story of the Puritan conquest of New England through the eyes of those who lived it.
Do we choose God or does God choose us? Admittedly, there are Bible passages to support both.
In Owls Mate for Life, James Paauw chronicles the dramatic seven-month survival struggle of his wife, Liz, following a high-speed head-on motor vehicle crash.
My parents need more support, but my siblings don’t want to help. How can I get them to step up and honor their father and mother?
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My lifelong Christian identity meant patriarchal Abraham had been my spiritual father. But now I realized l also had a genetic connection to him.
While our national discourse rightfully condemns Islamophobia and antisemitism, the systematic persecution of Christians around the world receives only a fraction of our collective outrage.
Middle-grade readers will learn the little-known story of Mamie Tape, an 8-year-old Chinese American girl whose family fought for her right to attend public school in San Francisco.
After a brain injury erases the past eight years of Dr. Amy Larsen's life, she must navigate an unfamiliar world where she has no recollection of patients, colleagues, the soulmate she divorced, the man she now loves, or the tragedy that caused her to push everyone away.
Dr. Ana Claudia Quintana Arantes's viral TED Talk on end-of-life care cemented her, a palliative care doctor in Brazil, as a global leader on living and dying well.
As a columnist for the New York Times who writes often about spiritual topics for a skeptical audience, Ross Douthat understands that many of us want to have more faith than we do. He argues that what we know today should make it harder to not have faith than to have it.
I need to spend more time on Bible study. Is there a best way to do that?
Whatever it is you want to do someday—whatever it is, go home and do it today.
In this beautifully illustrated mock-autobiography for middle-grade readers, Wind speaks directly to the reader, telling fascinating stories that show its cultural, historical, and technical importance to humans.
A documentary explores the beloved PBS television series for children.
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Prog rocker and believer Neal Morse forms a new band, The Resonance, with players much younger than him, to fascinating effect.