August 2009
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Features
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Emily, a former student of mine, had endured a semester’s worth of ridicule and abuse from her grad school professors and fellow st
Augustine’s Great Comeback
How this fifth-century African bishop helps us think theologically about today’s worldREAD MOREEven as a resurgence of atheism fascinates the mass media, a new theological engagement with public life is taking shape.
Merciful Living
Christianity killed paganism with kindness. Imagine what could happen today.READ MOREA speaker once asked his audience to raise their hands high above their heads. Everyone complied.
The New Calvinism
Calvinism’s on the rise—but other faith traditions are getting all the credit.READ MOREI wonder how many readers were surprised by Time magazine’s recent cover story “10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now”
News
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Rev.
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Reaching kids through sports is a passion of Rev.
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The youth group of Wheaton (Ill.) Christian Reformed Church was one of three Chicago-area youth groups to receive seed money from the Chr
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Meetings of CRC classes (regional groups of churches) are usually attended only by adults.
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The Christian Reformed Church’s Canadian Ministries Director, Rev.
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Curling, snowshoeing, board games, an art gallery visit—these were some of the activities Christian Reformed pastors in the Ottawa,
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Lincoln Center Christian Reformed Church in Grundy Center, Iowa, celebrated 125 years of ministry, looking both to the past and the futur
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The Korean Council of Christian Reformed Churches met in May for its 26th annual meeting. Pictured here are its newly elected officers.
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Kalamazoo (Mich.) Christian High School won the state championship in two different academic competitions this year.
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In April, Ministry Associate Michelle DePooter welcomed chaplains Rev.
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The Diaconal Network formed by six Christian Reformed churches in the Paterson, N.J., area, is offering basic and intermediate English as
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Two or three times each year, Christian Reformed churches send representatives to meetings of classis, their regional group of churches.
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Athens (Ontario) Christian Reformed Church invited the public into its historical building in May as part of a province-wide historical p
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Jordan Staal, 20, a member of First Christian Reformed Church in Thunder Bay, Ontario, has brought home what for most boys is an una
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What started out as high hopes for the Vancouver Canucks hockey team in the playoffs for the Stanley Cup ended in an explosion of generos
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Tim Ruiter, 12, spelled psittacosis, passacaglia, byssinosis, cretonne, jacqueminot, reredos, oriflamme, and sophrosyne correctly.
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The girls’ soccer team from Unity Christian High School in Hudsonville, Mich., landed its fifth consecutive state soccer title in D
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Four students from Unity Christian High School in Orange City, Iowa, won first-place honors at the regional Eastern South Dakota Science
Columns
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For years, like any responsible Christian parent, I prayed daily for my two children, Aubrey and Aaron.
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When cramming for an exam at Harvard Law School, Thomas Rollins felt woefully unprepared.
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As I write there is a weeklong event taking place in England called “Slow Down London.” It is a protest of sorts against that
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When sending missionaries to another country, Christian Reformed World Missions gives them instructions about that country so their prese
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Church
Q Why doesn’t Synod (or classis or ministers) do something about Sunday-nigh
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May summer grant you a warm, sunny day to grab a lemonade, put your feet up, and do some serious daydreaming.
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The Belhar
Confessions arise, as the Belhar surely has, out of the urgent need to express the gospel in very particular contexts
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Mental Illness
Regarding “Light for a Dark Path” (May 2009), I have been a confessing member of First CRC, Montreal,
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What’s your favorite summer sight? A rainbow? An orange-pink sunset? Beautiful flowers? Busy bugs? Baby birds?
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During the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, one morning’s executions began with three men: a rabbi, a Catholic priest, and
Our Shared Ministry
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When Christians in Mali hear about the plague of locusts in the book of Exodus, they know exactly what kind of havoc the insects can wrea
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Frank and Abe met at a retirement home in Michigan.
Imagining a New Future
Faith Alive Focuses on Faith NurtureREAD MOREImagine a church community where broad and deep faith nurture are a vibrant part of everything it does . . .
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Stores operated by members of Korean Christian Reformed churches are just one place to find copies of the Korean TODAY, a devotional book
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Twenty years ago Carlos Palacios traded the terror and violence of his then-unstable homeland of Peru for the hope of a new life in North
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Armando Franco came to understand that God was close at hand after he was buried by a Mexico City earthquake in 1986, nearly died i
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Campus ministry comes in many shapes and sizes, and it requires people who love the church, love students, and are willing to roll up the
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One of my greatest joys in summer is sailing on Lake Michigan.
