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One summer in the mid-1980s, while I was a student at Calvin College, I enrolled in summer classes.

Connections run deep between Calvin Theological Seminary and Japan.

In 1968, 11-year-old Delphine and her younger sisters visit Cecile, their derelict mother. When Cecile sends them to a summer day

If your family is like mine, you won’t make it through the first week of summer vacation without hearing the “b” wor

Film director Cary Fukunaga won a Best Directing award from the 2009 Sundance Film Festival for his debut feature, Sin Nombre

A substitute teacher wanders into an elementary-school classroom, tells a series of dazzling, illuminating, heartbreaking falseho

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Terrorism, unrest in the Middle East, spiking oil prices, and Qur’an burnings.

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When my son was younger, we were working on the sounds that different letters make. At one point we worked on days of the week:

First graduates of the local Leadership Development Network are licensed to preach.

Youths at Ebenezer Christian Reformed Church in Trenton, Ontario, used a Mario Kart Wii tourn

Grand Haven church builds 68 beds for local mission.

700 women attended the Home Missions event.

Rev. John De Vries competed in the 65- to 69-year-old category.

Moms in Bellingham enjoyed brunch and worship instead of child care.

The CRC’s Board of Trustees proposes freezing ministry shares at $316 per member.

Every Saturday night hip-hop music rumbles rhythmically from the building of Imagine Fell

As a member of the Sumbanese people on the West Sumba island of Indonesia, Mr.

For seven years, poet and journalist Eliza Griswold met with Muslims and Christians throughout Asia and Africa to explore the issues firing clashes between and within these faiths.

Five-year-old Jack has lived his entire life in Room—an 11-by-11-foot space—with Ma, who has been imprisoned there for sev