Laura Story’s fifth studio record, Open Hands, is filled with the message of hope.
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Jade is a junior at an affluent, private, mostly white high school.
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The Great Wall of China and California’s manmade Salton Sea are both iterations of a deeply embedded human need to build empires,
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For her new album with a new label and a new producer, Alison Krauss decided to record old songs.
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In 1952, 18-year-old Rachel returned to her childhood home in Kenya
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When young Viv moves to a new home along the South Carolina coast, she feels disoriented
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The Case for Christ is a surprising film with no surprises.
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Long after key changes, extended guitar solos, seven-minute tracks, and songs fading out were deemed taboo
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The book is entitled Triangle, but it is square in shape. A coincidence?
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Alice laughed. ‘‘There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”
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Stranger is about the universal and fierce love that comes with motherhood.
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Music has the power to reveal human experiences that are different from our own.
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In August 2015, Sura and her five children, along with their cat Kunkush, fled Iraq
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Darkness Is My Only Companion is the lament of the biblical psalmist,
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By narrating the story of 19-year-old Doaa Al Zamel, Melissa Fleming,
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Reinhold Niebuhr was one of the most influential theologians and ethicists of the 20th century.
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In the eight years since The xx debuted their self-titled album,
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It’s time to meet the parents.
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I was 13 years old when I first discovered U2’s fifth album, The Joshua Tree.
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Charles Spurgeon was known for expository preaching
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“School is the worst part of my life and I spend more time there than anywhere else.”
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A favorite CRC-published children’s devotional
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On the southernmost Italian island, Lampedusa, people live modest but mostly comfortable lives.