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Over the past few years, Western societies have been plagued by increasing loneliness.

When Christian girls spend their youth staying pure and doing good, they are rewarded with solid marriages and live happily ever after, right?

These days, most Christians seem to have learned how to argue from Twitter rather than Scripture. That’s a problem.

In our interconnected world, actions we take now affect not only our own backyards, farms, and cities, but also distant places and peoples extending centuries into the future.

“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.”

In these past 25 years, there is a generation of women who tell stories of living into their Spirit-led calling.

It’s a turbulent time to be an evangelical in America, leading some believing scholars who identify with historic evangelical beliefs to suggest that it is time to drop the term.

Anger is a normal and at times necessary emotion; rage is a deadly sin.

Now seeing the children and grandchildren of these first immigrants sitting in the pews in front of me, I saw them again—my father, my mother, the fathers and mothers of many who were sitting there.

Over my 25 years in ministry, I’ve become increasingly concerned about narcissism in the church. About five years ago, I decided it was time for a serious conversation.

If Paul affirms unmarried life, why doesn’t the modern church?

We can hardly say this season’s greeting without first cracking a smile and knowing in our hearts that we are sharing in a joy that is beyond us and yet inside of us.

Until I began navigating the challenges of communication with my son, I never thought of the ability to be heard as a privilege, a luxury available to some but not others.

CRC members along a spectrum of opinions share their beliefs.

We live in a time when a healthy financial life is increasingly difficult, particularly for young people.

We believe there are biblical principles that point us toward a hopeful vision of Christian civic engagement.

Bible scholars have pointed out that Matthew, the gospel writer, was drawing parallels between the Old Testament prophet Moses and Jesus.

Church shopping became church hopping, then church stopping.

The past few months of COVID-19, race relations, and vivid examples of police brutality further highlight the divisions that exist between us. How do we show Christian love?

We gulp this brew down like poison. Someone needs to be blamed if we’re to make sense of this brokenness. Right?

Perhaps this discussion is unfamiliar, but this pattern is well-worn and dangerous. If we are not tethered to the history of controversy, we start to long for a world that never existed.