November 2012
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Features
News
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Bert Adema receives Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for outstanding service to Saskatchewan.
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The Kraay family uses its corn maze to set a Guinness World Record.
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Board acts to support Indonesian Christians under threat of deportation in New Jersey.
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September meeting features discussion of a new strategic ministry plan for the denomination and more.
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Willoughby CRC in Langley, British Columbia, celebrated Labor Day in work clothes.
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For the past four years Rev. Ron Vanden Brink has led the local Remembrance Day service.
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Leaders of the NAACP and top officials of four other black Baptist groups push for increased voter registration.
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Thousands of frozen embryos have an uncertain future.
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Conservative Christian and Muslim parents want schools to notify them in advance of some lessons.
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Haven CRC in Zeeland, Mich., reaches out to those who can't attend worship.
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Mentoring and financial planning add value to food pantry at New Hope Ministries.
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A Facebook group allows pastors to talk about ministry, debate issues, and pray for each other, no matter where they live.
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Jeff Taylor, a professor at Dordt College, attended this year’s Republican National Convention.
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The Ancaster, Ontario, university has students from 49 denominations and 20 countries.
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Alberta church uses scrapbooking to help students understand a document that’s almost 450 years old.
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Bing Goei and Winnie Brinks both hope to represent the 76th district in the Michigan legislature.
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Volunteers from the CRC help respond to destructive fires.
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Calvary CRC started out as a Sunday school for outreach run by deacons.
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The historic mission started by the Christian Reformed Church dedicated its new facility on September 10.
Columns
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Celebrating a mother’s love and courage.
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A poet values her place most for its capacity for silence.
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Is providing emergency food part of doing justice?
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The summer of 1964 is a time of change in Hanging Moss, Miss.
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God’s Hotel is an old-fashioned alms house, one of the last of its kind, in California.
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Church is the one place we absolutely cannot settle for comfort.
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Stewardship and the Economy
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Who owns what?
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Sure, salt makes food taste better—but it’s good for so much more!
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The Brilliance is a collective of musicians led by singer David Gungor and pianist John Arndt.
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A gift comes full circle
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Recently retired Harold Fry never does the unexpected—until the day he receives a letter from Queenie Hennessy.
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