April 2007
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Features
Climate Care
Our profound moral imperativeREAD MOREOur star, the sun, pours forth immense energy.
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When I was a child our family faithfully worshiped at a local Christian Reformed church.
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Words of uncertainty spill from Peter’s lips: “I’m going out to fish” (John 21:3).
News
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The junior high boys of First Christian Reformed Church in Toronto used their baking skills to raise money, hoping for $23 to buy a goat
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The January Series at Calvin College traveled to Massachusetts this year.
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A winter storm Feb.
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It was a foggy morning when an aircraft overshot the runway and crashed “outside the wire,” the safety perimeter of the milit
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Deandreas McCanton, 21, is one of Chicagoland Prison Outreach’s success stories.
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When your church joins together with other local churches for a prayer service, or if your congregation partners with another local churc
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Several Christian Reformed World Missions staff were evacuated from a West African country, after violent protests threatened their safet
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Peter Harkema is the new development director of the Christian Reformed Church, appointed by the denomination’s board of trustees.
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For three decades Thanh Campbell presumed he was an orphan.
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Louise Hulst (left) and Shirley Matheis were two of 275 people who attended the third annual Day of Encouragement held at Dordt College i
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A rabbi, an imam, and a CRC chaplain recently came together at Hillside Community Christian Reformed Church in Calgary, Alberta, for a re
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Graafschap Christian Reformed Church in Holland, Mich., one of the oldest churches in the denomination, now also houses the Graafschap Heritage Center.
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The cold, the mold, the rain, and cockroaches can all greet volunteers involved in rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina.
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Bravo Christian Reformed Church in Fennville, Mich., has “graduated” after 72 years.
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Flags across Michigan flew at half-staff for the funeral of Brandon Stout, 23, an Army specialist in the Michigan National Guard’s
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“Are you guys for real?
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When Lou Datillio went looking for a hunting-safety course for his son, Nick, he found a church home.
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Rev. James Dekker recently represented the Christian Reformed Church at a human-rights tribunal in Colombia.
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Rev. Rick Ebbers doesn’t need to step out to the local coffee shop for a break. That’s where his office is.
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Prayer goes into every shawl knitted by members of Immanuel Christian Reformed Church in Hudsonville, Mich.
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Driving a fire truck for seven days may seem like an odd way to take a road trip.
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Rev.
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A class of students from Elim Christian School in Palos Heights, Ill., is learning new skills and brightening the lives of U.S.
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The Uniting Reformed Church in South Africa has asked the Christian Reformed Church and other Reformed churches worldwide to adopt the Be
Columns
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Two years ago I witnessed a brutal and senseless beating.
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“American children and adolescents spend 22 to 28 hours per week viewing television, more than any activity except sleeping,&rdqu
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Health
Q My elderly father and I are having difficulty deciding whether he should move to
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When God finished making the world, everything worked perfectly. Adam and Eve had plenty of fine food to eat.
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My husband’s grandmother, now 94, tells wonderfully detailed stories of her years as a missionary nurse in India and Africa.
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Our planet is very, very sick. It’s running a nasty fever that will spike much higher before we can reverse it.
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A Modest Proposal
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As my wife and I finished our breakfast March 5 she observed that, in spite of a good night’s sleep, she still felt tired and grogg
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On my last visit to Europe I spent an unforgettable evening with a dozen or so relatives in Sexbierum, the Netherlands—a small vill
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I have a rule for my garden this year. I won’t allow myself to buy any seeds.
And I am a seedaholic.
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Four years ago Sam Irizarry was “forced to make the right choice” after years of getting things wrong.
Our Shared Ministry
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Bertha “Bert” Verkaik remembers driving with her father 60 years ago and listening to “The Back to God Hour” on t
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As a young boy, Calvin College philosophy professor Lee Hardy learned valuable lessons when he worked for his dad at the family-owned dru
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When Rev.
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When 150 students, faculty, and staff members from Calvin Theological Seminary gathered in December for a panel discussion on issues of g
Deadly Beauty
How the Church Helped Halt the Blood Diamond TradeREAD MOREWhen violence erupted in Sierra Leone in the early 1990s, missionaries Paul and Mary Kortenhoven didn’t take it very seriously at f
Dear Reader
Looking in the Rearview MirrorREAD MOREWhy is it that we go “back and forth” and not “forth and back?” Why do we tell someone to “go ahead, back u
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In last month’s Church@Work I addressed the need for developing leaders for service in the church.
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“[Our] editors kept hearing the same thing,” says Bob De Moor, former theological editor at Faith Alive Christian Resources.
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A life of faith is not only knowing about God, it is knowing God.