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After 15 months of working on restructuring plans, the Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates approved a new leadership structure to recommend to Synod 2022.

The Christian Reformed Church’s annual general assembly is canceled for 2021; instead the Council of Delegates will meet in a special session to address parts of the Agenda that cannot wait until Synod 2022.

Discussing and eventually recommending a new governance structure took much of the Council’s time during its May 5-7 meeting, which also included approving the denomination’s first pledge-based budget.

The CRC’s Council of Delegates approved search team mandates for a new director of the Office of Social Justice and Race Relations ministries and new director of Disability Concerns and took time to confess, lament, exhort, and encourage at its meeting in May.

After Bethany Christian Services adopted an inclusion policy earlier this year, the Council of Delegates of the Christian Reformed Church voted to take the agency off its list of organizations approved to receive offerings from member congregations.

My hope is that the church will hold onto what is good, true, and beautiful while calling out what is base, false, and ugly.

With little to no income, Ekadashi’s parents decided the best action for the whole family was to arrange her marriage to a man in their village.

Beautiful devotional reflections on God as the vinedresser who wants us to flourish, based on Beth Moore’s book Chasing Vines.

Twice a week this classic podcast encourages listeners to action and contemplation.

“No Stranger” is the 10th studio album by American contemporary Christian music singer Natalie Grant.

Imagining all the social media “likes” the image will get fuels my drive to share why that sign and sentiments like it continue to marginalize my son.

I think this “three-legged stool” of home, church, and school is now cracked and wobbly because we are neglecting discipleship and instruction as a result of our preference for absorbing the world’s culture rather than transforming it.

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I sometimes find myself scrolling mindlessly through my social media accounts. I think that’s a problem. Would you agree?

Two former Willow Creek staff members explore the concept of tov, or goodness—unpacking its richness and showing how it can help Christians and churches rise up to resist abuse.

Set over one summer, the film follows precocious 6-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World.

Drawn from author Kao Kalia Yang’s childhood experiences as a Hmong refugee, this moving picture book portrays a family with a great deal of love and little money.

With 76 years of active and retired ministry, Jim Van Weelden loved “to tell the story” of salvation in Jesus Christ. He died April 18.

At its annual award ceremony, presented online April 30, the Evangelical Press Association honored The Banner with the Award of Excellence in the denominational print category. The Banner received another six awards in the EPA’s Higher Goals categories.

Refugee resettlement groups say they welcome the announcement of an increase to the number of refugees allowed into the U.S. The cap is now 62,500 for the remainder of the federal fiscal year.

In light of Mother’s Day, let’s take stock of how women have changed the world.

Finding itself “looking death in the face” last August, Kenosha (Wisc.) CRC is now continuing to minister in its community, supported by a partnership with First CRC in Oostburg, Wisc.

As in many hospitals around the world, Momoru says the hospital where he works near Tokyo, Japan, has felt “more like a battlefield than a place of care.”