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Hillsong Young and Free is the youngest touring worship band to be developed by Hillsong Church in Australia.

Captain James T. Kirk, captain of the Starship Enterprise, is bored. It’s the third year in his crew’s five-year mission to explore the universe—to boldly go where no one has gone before.

A bear cub discovers a piano in the forest, but he has no idea what it is. Touching the keys, he’s appalled by the sound it makes.

As the American political season heats up like an August day in Phoenix, I notice more and more mention of God by political candidates and their surrogates.

For Calvin College philosophy professor James K.A. Smith, the key question for Christians to consider comes from the New Testament book of John when Jesus, writes Smith, wheels around on two would-be disciples and asks them: “What do you want?”

Since she can remember, Adiza Ujo has been bothered by the heaps of trash she sees in her hometown of Abuja, Nigeria.

Dorothy Kaunda was already struggling as a farmer in rural Zambia when she took in her nine orphaned grandchildren.

Twenty participants with special needs, 20 mentors, and countless other volunteers spent last week SERVE-ing in Ottawa, Ont., Canada’s capital city.

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River Rock Church, a Christian Reformed congregation in Rockford, Mich., is showing outdoor movies as a way to help the community become familiar with its location.

Pastor, professor, missionary, pilot, gardener, skilled builder, and talented woodworker, James Calvin De Young was a man who enjoyed new challenges and liked to keep busy.

Several U.S.-based religious denominations remain defiant in the face of new laws that would ban them from proselytizing in Russia.

When I was growing up, my dad took me to see Chariots of Fire, the Oscar-winning 1981 film about Olympic runner, Eric Liddell.

In 1995, a jury decided that O.J. Simpson was not guilty of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a man named Ron Goldman.

The Avalanches’ Since I Left You proved that you could make a truly great record out of other people’s castoffs.

In response to the recent shootings of black men and of police officers, Madison Square Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Mich. held a service of lament on Tuesday, July 12.

Have you commented on, liked, or shared something your church is doing lately?

Approach Bethany Christian Reformed Church in Bellflower, Calif., on weekday mornings this summer and you will see a swarm of kids shooting hoops, or designing experiments, or creating masterpieces.

Angela Reitsma Bick won the 2016 Word Guild award for profile/human interest category for her op-ed article, “Every Moment Holy,” published in December 2015.

Canada’s Anglican Church has provisionally voted to amend its rules to allow clergy to celebrate same-sex marriages, a day after it narrowly defeated the measure.

Ruth Soukup writes from personal experience as she explores why people stuff their lives with material clutter, excessive busyness, and unhealthy relationships, especially on social media.