November 2005
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Features
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In about 15 hours I’ll board a plane in Grand Rapids, Mich.—the start of a long journey to Seoul, South Korea.
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Editor’s note: From June 25 to Sept.
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In Leo Tolstoy’s short novelThe Death of Ivan Ilych, a godless, self-centered man struggles through a long and painful dea
News
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A weeklong mission trip to Rehoboth, N.
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Calls Accepted
Rev. Bruce Vaandrager of Morrison (Ill.) Christian Reformed Church to Ada (Mich.) CRC. - READ MORE
Dan Vandersteen was thankful to be home after working for two weeks in Louisana following hurricane Katrina.
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Fifteen students from Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich., helped stage a three-day vigil of prayer, fasting, and advocacy in New York Ci
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Three Christian Reformed families opened their homes this summer to give children from Belarus a health respite from their contaminated h
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Ontario (Calif.) Christian School expelled a ninth-grade student in September when the administration learned her mother was living with
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Three Indonesian women who ran a Christian Sunday school program were convicted and sentenced Sept.
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In September a synodical committee found that the leaders of First Christian Reformed Church in Toronto were acting outside the guideline
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Two Christian Reformed scientists recently collaborated on a NASA space project known as Deep Impact, though they didn’t know it at
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City transportation planner Jeremy Klop, 34, is practicing what he preaches after winning a new bicycle from Bicycling Magazine.
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The Christian Reformed World Relief Committee is on track to deliver a $5 million response to Hurricane Katrina.
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On Sept. 23, the chapel service at Holland (Mich.) Christian High School brought Hurricane Katrina into sharp focus.
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CNN has chosen Vatican analyst Delia Gallagher to be the network’s first full-time faith and values correspondent.
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1915 – 2005
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While sitting on the rooftop of his flooded home in Biloxi, Miss., Taun Anh Le saw a large board floating by.
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Years after listening to Christian radio in his native Morocco, Rashid Hmami can now worship in an official Christian church.
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Providence Christian College opened its doors this fall in Ontario, Calif., to 21 students, three professors, and 17 adjunct professors.
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When three Christian Reformed Churches in the Chicago suburbs found their membership declining, they knew it was time to talk.
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The government of Ontario said in September it would not permit the use of private Islamic tribunals to settle family disputes between Mu
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“The disaster of Hurricane Katrina may be the worst tragedy America has known since the Civil War. . . .
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Lakeview Christian Reformed Church in Valentine, Neb., is a small church with a big heart and limited resources for outreach.
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Less than 30 hours after her baptism at the Three Rivers (Mich.) Christian Reformed Church, Tina Mae Nichols was killed by a stray bullet
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At the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, once dubbed “the bloodiest prison in America,” the good guys are taking over.
Columns
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A few years ago I was driving along, daydreaming and only half listening to Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac”
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If you could have one wish granted, what would it be? To play baseball with the New York Yankees?
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For thousands of years, people all over the world have celebrated harvesttime.
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We cowered at the deafening sound of crippled airplanes
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If Rev. Wayne Brouwer’s meaty “nutshell” (“Reformation: A Short History,” Oct.
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Nature flicks rarely pierce our souls. But that’s what March of the Penguins did to me.
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So what’s caught your funny bone lately?
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Q. You said it’s not necessary for a creationist to believe in a young earth (August Banner, p.
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Quite a few sick listed in the bulletin this morning. I’ll say a prayer for each one.
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You’ve heard (or asked) the question a thousand times in a thousand forms: Is something good, or is it bad?
Our Shared Ministry
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The need to gather with others is part of living in community.
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Some 250 people, including visitors from as far away as China, attended the fifth biennial Korean Small Group/Coffee Break Conference in
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If you have a child who’s obsessed with velociraptors and pterodactyls, one fine day he or she will ask you, “Why doesn&rsquo
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Tsunamis wipe out entire villages. Hurricanes cut a swath of death and destruction. Floods wash away the possessions of a lifetime.
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I had never been to Hiroshima—a place with a history of pain and suffering.
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Beginning this fall, most students entering Calvin Theological Seminary will take a new course called “Theological Education as For
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With a resounding “Yes!” pastors from 10 churches and four denominations in Oostburg, Wis., took on a huge challenge.
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The Back to God Hour’s Portuguese-language television program “Gente que Cre” (“People Who Believe”) has a
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The sun beat down as people huddled around the windows and doors of a crowded Nigerian church.