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Kevin DeRaaf, acting Canada director of Resonate Global Mission, who was nominated as mission agency’s director in February, was appointed to that position by Synod 2023.

Synod 2023 heard the importance of practicing corporate lament in worship. It encourages it, but is not changing Church Order to require it.

Zachary King, the Christian Reformed Church’s general secretary, reviewed challenges and opportunities facing the CRC.

“Some object that there are women seated as delegates; others lament that there are not more women among us. We choose to work together despite these differences,” Synod 2023 says.

Andy de Ruyter, chair of the Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates, leaned into his role as an “adviser” to synod as he addressed the general assembly Monday, June 12.

Synod 2023 participants attended workshops with denominational ministry leaders on topics important to furthering the church’s mission.

Participants of Synod 2023 rested on the Lord’s Day and gathered for worship at the host Church of the Servant in Grand Rapids, Mich.

I tested positive for sin.

Summer reading from a mainstream novel about an octopus to a nonfiction book about chickens and creativity.

In his second synod as the official prayer shepherd of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, Jon Hoekema is working to “raise a culture of prayer.”

Synod 2023 has decided to keep the doors open—even when the general assembly of the Christian Reformed Church discusses sensitive topics next week.

Two American and two Canadian pastors make up the officers for Synod 2023, guiding the Christian Reformed Church’s general assembly June 9-15.

Delegates to the Christian Reformed Church in North America’s 2023 general assembly were encouraged to “prop each other up” and lean into restorative leadership as they work together in the coming week.

The true story of a beloved banyan tree and a community that fought to save it in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a long-lost relic, but their adventure goes dangerously awry.

A beautifully written memoir-in-essays by a biracial Korean American shows readers how God can redeem the broken parts of all our stories.

Joel Huyser will end 28 years of ministry with the CRC on June 30, expecting in retirement to support the work of a new Christian school in South Korea with his teacher wife, Jeannie.

Ahead of June meetings for the Southern Baptist Convention and the Evangelical Covenant Church, Religion News Service reports on two prominent individual congregations either campaigning to be reinstated or voluntarily leaving before being formally expelled.

The unity the Bible demands in our situation is not the unity of moderates. There are two kinds of biblical unity.

Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, the head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference of the Roman Catholic Church, traveled to Kyiv on June 5 as a representative of Pope Francis.

A popular radio host and author in Russia led a master class in using literature and the arts as tools for Christian witness.

The fact that more people—almost 200 more—participated in this year’s survey is heartening. Check out some of the results here.

When new classmates Mattie and Mercedes meet and realize they have the same Colombian dad, the two team up in a Parent Trap–inspired misadventure.