Malcolm Gladwell offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers—and why they often go wrong.
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God created the world to work in certain ways and follow certain rules. The sun rises and sets. Seasons come and go.
The Bingham girls and their siblings attended a segregated school to which they were transported daily in the back of a pickup truck, rain or shine, 20 miles each way.
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Libertas Christian School made headlines this past November for maintaining a staunch opposition to statewide mask mandates in Michigan.
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Justin Bailey seeks to infuse apologetics with an appeal to the imagination, the aesthetic, and the affective.
Bethel Music’s Cory Asbury hits it out of the park with his third full-length album of worshipful pop.
Newbery Honor-winning author Gail Carson Levine tells a moving and ambitious story about a young Jewish girl who must play her own role in her people's epic history—no matter the sacrifice.
The executive committee of the Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates has approved hiring Tim Rietkerk as the next director of the CRC’s Chaplaincy and Care Ministry.
C.I.A. (Christ in Action) boys club, founded at Sunlight Community Church in Port Saint Lucie, Fla., in 2019, is “helping boys connect deeper with God, learn and understand the gospel, and grow into men who live out their lives in passionate response to the good news.”
In my view, the term “pro-life” should encompass the protection of all human life from all causes—not just abortion.
African American leaders and seminary presidents said they had an ‘honest and open conversation’ during the virtual meeting last week.
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The sunlight zone is the part of the ocean that is closest to the shore and gets the most sunlight.
Now seeing the children and grandchildren of these first immigrants sitting in the pews in front of me, I saw them again—my father, my mother, the fathers and mothers of many who were sitting there.
A man of perseverance and empathy who pastored several Christian Reformed congregations in Canada, Henry Jonker died Dec. 9.
There are still those who believe that those with depression or other mental illnesses should “pray it away” rather than take medication.
Emotions run high in the U.S. among Trump supporters and even higher among those who favor Biden, at least in the city where I live.
A couple in our church is unsure about infant baptism and has asked for their child to be dedicated instead. Is that OK?