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Former first lady Michelle Obama had an idea. A big, inspiring, and exciting idea! She would grow the largest kitchen garden ever at the White House.

There is something about our nature that hinders us from understanding.

Partnerships are usually strengthened through annual visits, but COVID-19 travel restrictions put these visits on hold.

Today is a daily devotional podcast that helps God's people refresh, refocus, and renew their faith through Bible reading, reflection, and prayer.

A missionary and pastor, Bob Ruis was a Christ-focused and mission-focused man with a gift for languages. He died Sept. 30.

We have a way of convincing ourselves that we deserve power, blessing, and a privileged identity because of our relationship with God.

“a prism of leaves drift in cool air / whirling dervishes on their way down”

My next-door neighbor and I are both moms in our 30s with kids close in age. I’ve tried to form a friendship with her, but she is not interested even in casually chatting. I am disappointed. What should I do?

The Christian Reformed Church recognizes nine congregations across the U.S. as union, or dually affiliated, churches with the Reformed Church in America. Following the RCA’s General Synod in mid-October, some are contemplating their associations.

Jim Gehrels, a member of Bethlehem Christian Reformed Church in Thunder Bay, Ont., who co-founded the well-drilling charity, Lifewater Canada, has received a posthumous meritorious service medal from the governor general of Canada.

Brian D. McLaren proposes a four-stage model of faith development in which questions and doubt are not the enemy of faith but rather a portal to a more mature and fruitful kind of faith.

King Arthur's headstrong nephew embarks on a daring quest to confront the Green Knight, a mysterious giant who appears at Camelot.

Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history. Grades 3-6.

One of my friends reflected: at the end of our lives, what relationship will we have with our kids and others?

After briefly weighing whether to strike up a conversation, he leaned over and said, “Pardon me, I heard you say ‘Grand Rapids.’ I lived there for eight years.”

Para muchos de nosotros, nuestro concepto de la Iglesia se ha visto sacudido.

A group of celebrated female authors, artists, and songwriters collaborate on an album-length response to God’s faithfulness to women throughout Scripture and in their own lives.

Many aspiring actors, directors, or screenwriters have found the City of Angels to be hell on earth.

I found that when students spoke about Christianity with people of other belief systems, they often reduced their faith to actions.

Our society’s growing understanding of the significance of community seems to resonate with Scripture and God’s desire for God’s world.

In the first Korean drama to hit No. 1 on Netflix, hundreds of cash-strapped contestants accept an invitation to compete in children's games for a tempting prize, but the stakes are deadly.

Jesus ascended to heaven. End of story. But then how do we explain the many Christians, in nearly every century since, who claimed to have seen, heard, met, and touched Jesus in the flesh?