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Modesta Lucas Bravo grew up around coffee plants. Her parents harvested coffee as plantation workers in rural Guatemala. 

Hailey was a freshman at GRCC when she first stumbled upon the table Peter set up for Jabez Ministries, a Christian Reformed campus ministry supported by Resonate Global Mission that primarily serves students with disabilities.

Loving small means doing small things, helpful things, things not all that striking, but doing them with great love.

Three or four years ago, I started to notice people beginning their spoken sentences with “so...”

A new effort to bridge the generation gap connects young people with older adults to tackle problems they care about. Two Christian Reformed churches are seeing results.

First Christian Reformed Church in Oostburg, Wisc., recognized God’s faithfulness over its 150-year history with three special events.

Lauren Daigle’s outstanding sophomore release is poised to be one of the most celebrated albums of 2018.

In this sometimes painful, always thought-provoking book, Austin Channing Brown shares her life journey toward understanding the effects of racism and the long road we have to travel to achieve real justice and reconciliation.

Life is often difficult for people in China who are blind, as Wang Ying wrote in an online essay competition hosted by the Chinese ministry of Back to God Ministries International.

In Charles Frazier’s novel, young Varina marries the older landowner Jefferson Davis, only to be catapulted into the public eye when he becomes President of the Confederacy.

While many researchers focus on what AI can do, we need to begin to discern what we ought to do with AI.

How does our Christian faith enable us to carry on when hope seems lost?

Being biblical is only possible if our goal is to be a faithful and dynamic disciple of Jesus.

Our primary loyalty should always be to God, not to any human being, institution, or country—not even to any theological tradition.

How do I discern between God’s calling and my own—or even other people’s—sinful ambitions?

Lean on Pete is a closely observed portrait of a young man who needs someone to care for and commit to him, to give him love, stability, and a sense of belonging.

Culture Care is Makoto Fujimura’s gentle invitation to his readers to love and be stewards of the arts for the sake of flourishing in this world.

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In Virginia, members of Grace Christian Reformed Church started their own home-based youth group as a service to their son’s soccer team. The group boosted the church’s contingent to a SERVE trip this summer and continues to bless its community.

This past summer, a newly planted Christian Reformed Church in North Oshawa, Ont., heard the words most churches hope for: its presence in the public square was welcomed and appreciated.

What sorts of worship practices clearly proclaim that all ages are welcome as the community gathers for worship?

Those who attended Inspire 2017 were privileged to view a video that showed multiple speakers reciting the Apostles Creed. With each speaker voicing a single phrase, the compiled results provided an amazing testimony of belief, made all the more significant because the speakers were primarily children, teens, and adults with disabilities.

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha was a pediatrician in Flint, Mich., when the parents of her patients began mentioning that the water coming from their taps smelled foul and was brown.