Our church is filled with retired people. We don’t have many children. How can we minister to the children if there are so few of them? 

Think about the Church Order articles related to the office of deacon and how they give instruction for the healthy functioning of a church in its context, locally and at the classis level.

I spend a lot of time listening. But is it worthwhile?

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I discovered that the increase of religious “nones” is strongly correlated with use of new technologies.

Christ’s church is wonderfully diverse and sinfully divided.

It seems we have a tendency to approach issues mostly as intellectual problems to be solved even when they involve real, complex people who need to be loved.

Besides amazingly fast development to test for and combat COVID, has anything good come out of the pandemic technology-wise?

As Indigenous people we often see ourselves connected with nature more than the average person.

I have tried to look at my grief rationally.

We are so covered in mud that we can’t even do something righteous without soiling it.

Polarization seems to have pervaded every corner of our families, churches, and society.

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Our family joined a Christian Reformed church a few years ago. Recently a deacon expressed concern that we were not contributing more to the general fund. It makes me uncomfortable to think that deacons are talking about how much people are giving and whether it is sufficient. Is this what happens in the CRC?

It wasn’t until later, after my encounter with the letter carrier and when I looked up the lyrics, that I realized I did get the words wrong.

Let’s look back one last time to some of our best from 2021.

A seminarian on his first summer assignment, in Vermillion, S.D., is about to embark on an adventure of a lifetime.

Water has a unique structure. God made it differently.

Does it matter what kind of company I work for and what kind of values it seems to have?

Music is an integral part of worship for all congregants. So why are so many seniors feeling left out?

Our church council called a special congregational meeting to vote on calling a chaplain. Is that necessary when the chaplain isn’t going to be working at our church?

A desire to know Jesus was born within her and never left.

We cannot cherry-pick one half of that verse and ignore the other half.