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Artist Ruth Goring uses beads, shells, stones, colored glass, and more to create collages and mosaics with explanations of biblical metaphors for God.

Album combines jazz, blues, folk, and 50s rock through intricate West African rhythms preserved on the Atlantic Sea Islands.

Meeting Jan. 18-25 for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, members of New Street Christian Reformed Church in Burlington, Ont., gathered with their growing group, Christians on a Journey.

Bethany Christian Services, a Michigan-based global nonprofit agency supporting children and families, has announced its intention to stop placing children through international adoption.

The conversation needs to shift from trying to convince each other to a pragmatic discussion of where we go from here.

• Seeing prayer as a relationship can feel especially freeing in challenging ministry contexts.

Arkansas worship artist offers rich lyrics, sleek electropop on six-song EP.

That’s what I told my son after he sat me down and told me he wants to become a woman. My son was baptized in the CRC. He attended Sunday school and youth groups and went on mission trips.

Have you ever driven yourself to your destination with no memory of the drive? Or perhaps you’ve discovered yourself lost in a daydream when you intended to be in prayer? Mindfulness can help you focus on the now.

Discipleship is about learning to love, follow, obey, and become more and more like Jesus.

A journalist and humanitarian takes readers around the world to learn the crucial skill of empathy from the world’s bravest souls.

A Caldecott Honor book celebrates family, community, and the unifying power of music.

An Austrian farmer faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

A podcast produced by a diverse CRC church offers an ongoing conversation about anti-racism.

At the Presidents Conference of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities abuse survivor and activist Rachael Denhollander brought her advocacy to educators.

New housing at 501 Eastern Ave. in Grand Rapids, Mich., officially opened last month featuring 17 apartments set aside for under-housed young people. Members of Eastern Avenue Christian Reformed Church played a key role in the project’s completion.

First Christian Reformed Church in Denver, Colo., has up to 100 volunteers, including transportation coordinator Ed Schans, participate in hosting families experiencing homelessness.

By one account, thunder peeled in loud claps—then rain showers—but as soon as it appeared it peacefully went away, a rainbow appeared overhead, and this feeling of calm came over Carl.

“Is this not what the church is all about—helping those in need?”

“But even in the midst of this newness, preaching to a screen, listening to the Word proclaimed via video, Lord, we know that the Holy Spirit is transcending it all.”

Two veteran Canadian writers share wisdom on the Christian writing life and business.

An engrossing biopic of the falsely accused security guard who found the bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

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