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This shares the epic, tragic story of the Puritan conquest of New England through the eyes of those who lived it.

Do we choose God or does God choose us? Admittedly, there are Bible passages to support both.

The delegates to Synod 2025 of the Christian Reformed Church in North America elected four pastors as officers to this year’s meeting: two who served Synod 2024 and two first-time officers.

“As we look back with gratitude to God on these 150 years, we also look ahead with purpose.”

In Owls Mate for Life, James Paauw chronicles the dramatic seven-month survival struggle of his wife, Liz, following a high-speed head-on motor vehicle crash.

My parents need more support, but my siblings don’t want to help. How can I get them to step up and honor their father and mother?

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My lifelong Christian identity meant patriarchal Abraham had been my spiritual father. But now I realized l also had a genetic connection to him.

Since 1997 the Crossroads Community Ministries arm of Madison Avenue CRC in Paterson, N.J., has operated discipleship houses for residential-based recovery and transformation.

While our national discourse rightfully condemns Islamophobia and antisemitism, the systematic persecution of Christians around the world receives only a fraction of our collective outrage.

Middle-grade readers will learn the little-known story of Mamie Tape, an 8-year-old Chinese American girl whose family fought for her right to attend public school in San Francisco.

After a brain injury erases the past eight years of Dr. Amy Larsen's life, she must navigate an unfamiliar world where she has no recollection of patients, colleagues, the soulmate she divorced, the man she now loves, or the tragedy that caused her to push everyone away.

Dr. Ana Claudia Quintana Arantes's viral TED Talk on end-of-life care cemented her, a palliative care doctor in Brazil, as a global leader on living and dying well.

A GEMS Club in Kenya received notes and handmade gifts from Friendship Christian Reformed Church’s GEMS Club in Byron Centre, Mich.

믿음의 삶은 언제나 쉽지 않았고, 어쩌면 단 한 번도 편했던 적이 없었는지도 모릅니다. 그러나 우리의 세례에 새겨진 하나님의 위대한 약속은 세대를 지나 여전히 살아 숨 쉬고 있습니다.

As a columnist for the New York Times who writes often about spiritual topics for a skeptical audience, Ross Douthat understands that many of us want to have more faith than we do. He argues that what we know today should make it harder to not have faith than to have it.

I need to spend more time on Bible study. Is there a best way to do that?

Check out the numbers for this year’s agenda.

“Healing the city one person at a time” became a catchphrase for our church.

Whatever it is you want to do someday—whatever it is, go home and do it today.

In this beautifully illustrated mock-autobiography for middle-grade readers, Wind speaks directly to the reader, telling fascinating stories that show its cultural, historical, and technical importance to humans.

A documentary explores the beloved PBS television series for children.

4 Books to Read for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month