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Writing from the perspective of a friend, Frederick Joseph offers candid reflections for teens on his own experiences with racism and conversations with prominent artists and activists about theirs.

Ambi-coustic, jazz-age fusion, with touches of art-rock, featuring eight richly textured instrumental mosaics inspired by the visually spectacular 5th- and 6th-century art of Ravenna, Italy.

A humble man with a “holy” legacy of leading many people to Jesus, Ron Baker died May 5.

Huu Phu Nguyen served Vietnamese New Hope CRC in Wheaton, Ill., for more than 25 years. He died April 17.

As a person with cerebral palsy, I struggle daily with keeping up, fitting in, and pressing on.

Over the past few years, Western societies have been plagued by increasing loneliness.

We want to put up a clothesline to dry our clothes outside in warm weather so we don’t have to waste gas or electricity using a dryer. However, our housing subdivision prohibits clotheslines. What do we do?

Justo González draws on Scripture, the Church Fathers, and his own life experience to highlight the implications of the Lord’s Prayer for Christians.

A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and become humanity’s unlikeliest last hope.

An American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend follows a path that leads her to the very hospital where they met.

Religious colleges and universities that offer programming within correctional facilities have found ways to stay connected despite pandemic restrictions.

A 1957 plaque honoring missionaries Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian and Pete Fleming who were killed while attempting to share their Christian faith with the Waorani people in Ecuador contains language now seen as offensive.

What is interesting to me is that Jesus still had the wounds from his crucifixion. Why would Jesus keep these wounds?

Advocating for a ceasefire, which has been in place since Friday, the coalition of churches that works to encourage U.S. policies that actively promote a comprehensive resolution to conflicts in the Middle East, wrote to the UN Security Council on Thursday.

Director Harold Roscher described the center as “simply a community for people of all cultures, faiths, (and) financial standings, ... a place where we can meet and grow together.”

우리가 자부하는 교단 전체의 장점들이 교인 감소 문제를 해결할 수 있다면 지금쯤 다 해결되었어야 하지 않을까요?

A gritty, suspenseful novel traces the far-reaching consequences of secrets in the lives of a Korean immigrant mother and her daughter.

Returning to Christian music after 10 years, Jaime Jamgochian chronicles her healing from Lyme Disease.

Today I am thankful and have to give praise for time and the timeless and the shortness of days …

A little something for everyone to read this summer.

Adam’s original creation covenant mandate from God of subduing or having dominion over the earth was to do it for God’s glory, not man’s.

How many categories of members do we have in the CRC? What should councils do about members who disappear?

Hank the Cowdog (Matthew McConaughey) must venture into the “Unchanted Forest” in a hilarious family podcast adventure.