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Columns
Read our regular columns on Faith Matters, Big Questions, Christian apologetics, Shiao Chong's monthly Editorial, the Discover page (especially for kids), the Vantage Point, the Other Six, and letters from Christian Reformed Church members and our readers. Our online-only columns are As I Was Saying and Behind the Banner.
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My church expects parents to help in children’s worship once a month. Is that necessary? What do we gain and what do we lose?
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Why have differing expectations recently caused friction in some churches?
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When we look at the world today with all its problems, from wars and racism to abortion and climate change, we are tempted to despair.
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In Spanish, “armadillo” means “little armored one.”
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The time of COVID is challenging, but how we view our existence in it and how to structure our days is a spiritual discipline.
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Let me give you three reasons why I think the resurrection of Jesus was not made up by early Christians.
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By offering death as an option to those expected to die in the “reasonably foreseeable” future, Bill C-7, many disabled people fear, would provide an incentive for their mistreatment or even unwanted death.
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If people have talents in music, writing, hospitality, technology, or some other area that could benefit the church community, do they have an obligation to do so?
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Could any of us have guessed, when all this started, that we would still be facing the wrath of the Coronavirus a year later?
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지난 해는 힘든 한 해였습니다. 하지만 소망이 있습니다.
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To help you decide, ask how this position might allow you to love God and love your neighbor.
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Although it’s not considered polite to describe the gory details of childbirth and daily motherhood, this is the way Jesus chose to come to us.
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Young people aren’t growing up in the same world their parents did.
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As details emerge about Robert Aaron Long, 21, the suspect in three Atlanta-area shootings, it seems that the man accused of killing eight people is a committed Christian.
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The more funds we can raise through advertising and donations, the less we need to rely on ministry shares.
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A Christian concerned with social justice is often seen as a “bleeding heart,” for compassion is considered a soft thing compared to the “strong” virtues of fairness, obedience, or lawfulness.
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A poem of suffering.
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Many Indigenous people across this continent use the spirit of the eagle in ceremonies and feel the eagle feather has special spiritual healing powers.
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Does the Christian Reformed Church recommend that when a pastor of long-standing service in her or his congregation retires, that she or he mentor the incoming pastor for a period of time?
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In the wake of such devastating news, we feel the need to present quick and simple solutions. However, when we do this, we avoid the necessary but painful process of grief.
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Anti-Asian attacks have been skyrocketing at an alarming rate since the start of the pandemic. Yet there has been a gaping void of evangelical voices publicly speaking up to defend their Asian American brothers and sisters.
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We are not respectful enough of other people’s time.
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We have a vague notion that heaven is somewhere “up there,” but more likely it is located well outside of our sense of space or even time.