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In response to the conclusion of an independent investigation of abuse at one of its ministry partners, Resonate Global Mission has issued an apology and is contributing to the implementation of report recommendations.

Facing trial for allegedly failing to report sexual abuse, Brian Houston, co-founder of the Hillsong megachurch, announced a leave of absence until the end of this year.

In toxic conflict, the other side becomes unfathomable, strange, alien—dehumanized. Yet the conflict itself is utterly predictable.

As Indigenous people we often see ourselves connected with nature more than the average person.

At the CRC Office of Race Relations we’re celebrating 50 years of work against racism.

What does it mean to “act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God” (Mic. 6:8)?

Nine years after the first Canadian Catalytic Conversation—a gathering of delegates from Christian Reformed classes across Canada—Canadian CRC members were again invited to a meeting of the minds, this time on Zoom.

After 15 years of promoting the production of “content worth consuming,” Dordt University’s Prairie Grass Film Challenge mounted its final event in January 2022.

A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.

A lyrical, vibrant tribute to the amazing life and legacy of Pura Belpré, a lauded storyteller, librarian, and pioneer of bilingual storytimes

A boisterous live worship EP from the diverse Thrive Worship group.

Ida Kaastra-Mutoigo, director for World Renew-Canada, is leaving to head a New York-based ministry for survivors of trafficking. Kenneth Kim will be her interim replacement.

I have tried to look at my grief rationally.

Get some of our top picks for reading, watching, and listening in February 2022.

Ida B. the Queen pays tribute to a transformational leader in civil rights.

We are so covered in mud that we can’t even do something righteous without soiling it.

Polarization seems to have pervaded every corner of our families, churches, and society.

Across the globe, Open Doors found that there has been a 24% increase in Christians killed because of their faith.

After four years of fun snow builds, a family from Faith Christian Reformed Church in Pella, Iowa, used their 2022 creation to raise money for Living Water Wells.

Xay Xue Yang,  founding pastor of the Hmong Christian Reformed Church in Sheboygan, Wisc., died Dec. 15, 2021.

A new collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life continue to encourage, challenge, and influence.

Three pastors and friends converse about church, culture, and life off the pulpit.

Evan and Mae run off to avoid a shotgun wedding, a decision that initiates decades of marital adventures and misadventures.