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In the days and weeks after these losses, he waited. He waited for his church to reach out. He waited to hear from the elders. He waited for his pastors to visit.

Bob the Chihuahua sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister with the help of his two best friends, Ivan and Ruby, in this sequel to The One and Only Ivan.

Worship album comforts listeners facing anxiety and fear amid COVID-19 pandemic.

Although some support programs are in place in the churches, we are called to reach out to the communities and develop initiatives that are available to everyone.

A 25-minute weekly podcast from Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy encourage women in their faith.

In 1950s New Mexico, a switchboard operator and a DJ receive a message from beyond the stars.

The Confederate flag serves as a portal through which non-Southern white people can project their own guilt of racial bias onto the Southerner.

Two pastors in Ontario and one in Wisconsin talk about the experience of reopening their churches for in-person worship after widespread closures to keep people socially distanced during COVID-19.

We share the stories that don’t get heard or magnified anywhere else.

Immanuel CRC members Mike Earls and Gerry Gysbers in Hamilton, Ont., often take their band Deservedly So into local nursing homes to perform for residents. During COVID-19, they’ve kept the sing-along going with an online concert.

En medio de todo este cambio y caos social, la iglesia se mantiene a la altura.

For Carol Van Ess-Dykema, the work of World Renew is quite simple: loving the world through more than just words.

An alcoholic gets a shot at redemption when he coaches his alma mater’s basketball team.

This stirring testimony of a Canadian-Chinese pastor’s prison experience won the Word Guild Best New Manuscript award in 2019.

Half-Chinese Hanna and her father arrive in Dakota Territory in 1880 and face discrimination because of Hanna’s ancestry.

It felt as though every few hours I was hosting discussions between groups of students, or even the whole class, about the conflict that was occurring.

The phone was on speaker, so we all got to hear a bit of her friend’s attempts to console her.

No one should be surprised if they feel like their head is spinning at times; the disruption and disorientation is a real thing.

As much as I try to be fair and irenic, there are times when the truth is divisive. Truth divides between true and false, right and wrong. And politics do intersect, at certain points, with ethics.

A half-hour soothing audio history of math that may or may not put you to sleep.

Francis Chan, author of Crazy Love, offers an hourlong podcast challenging the listener to love radically.

A 75-year history of evangelicalism that identifies the forces that have turned Donald Trump into a hero of the Religious Right.

For two weeks out of every winter, Ann Arbor (Mich.) CRC hosts additional shelter space for the Shelter Association of Washtenaw. This year, their second week of hosting turned into 12 weeks, benefitting the church and the men.