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Have you ever imagined what it would be like to be in Bethlehem on the first Christmas? Let’s try it.

A year or two ago, in late autumn, an advertisement appeared on one side of a double billboard near my home.

Daughter Ruth was always last to leave the Sunday family dinners.

On a snow-covered hill, when I was in junior high, my life flashed before my eyes. In the brilliance, I caught a glimpse of God.

It seems amazing—and more than a little disheartening—to find that apparently no one has given thought to what seems like an

What? Christmas season again? Already? We just did that!

The Christian Reformed Church’s Crisis Management Team has placed a hold on all travel by CRC personnel to the West African country

Burma and Michigan are more than 8,000 miles (12,800 km) apart, but three families of Lakeside Community Christian Reformed Church in Alt

On Sept. 19, J. Derek Halvorson was inaugurated as president of Providence Christian College in Ontario, Calif.

“What struck me most is how happy they are for how little they have,” said Aaron Doorn, 16.

Six pastors serving Canadian Korean Christian Reformed churches gathered in Calgary, Alberta, this summer for continuing education and mu

The Network, a new denominational program intended to connect and help local congregations, is becoming a reality.

When Nancy Leistra of North Hills Christian Reformed Church in Troy, Mich., started losing her hair while going through chemotherapy trea

Stop by the Right Brain Brewery in Traverse City, Mich., on Thursday nights, and you’ll find an interesting menu: beer, conversatio

The Christian Reformed World Relief Committee’s Disaster Response Service (DRS) is rarely called to Alaska.

Conrad (Mont.) Christian Reformed Church was established Oct.

Awake Christian Reformed Church meets in the back room of a bawdy café on Seattle’s Aurora Avenue motel strip, where sex sho

Michael Miller knows where to find a listening ear: at the Green Bean Coffee House in Seattle’s Greenwood area.

From First CRC, New Westminster, British Columbia, to Rev. Andrew E.

It’s no secret that the Pacific Northwest is the most unchurched part of the United States.

Volunteers from Kelloggsville Christian Reformed Church in Kentwood, Mich., have helped at least 50 Burundian refugees learn to read and

Welcome to the Front Porch Café. At this diner in a small northern Michigan town, community is the main entrée.

April 16, 1936 – July 23, 2009