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Generally, a decline in American religiousness observed since at least 2007 has slowed over the past four to five years, Pew Research shows in its 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study.

“The massive cutting of foreign aid to those most in need, and from many faith-based organizations supplying it is a gospel issue for us that we must speak to,” reads one of the letters from faith groups.

Classes in the �㽶��Ƶ are processing resolutions of disaffiliation and releases of ministers, including eight released at a Jan 16 meeting of Classis Grand Rapids East.

Recognizing the challenge many Christian educators face in integrating faith with mathematical instruction, Dordt University professor Valorie Zonnefeld has built an online resource with real-world applications from a Christian worldview.

Christians Uniting in Song and Prayer invites people from various faith traditions to joint worship services to promote unity within the larger church.

A Christian graduate school founded in the neo-Calvinist tradition in 1967 has severed ties with the �㽶��Ƶ over the denomination’s confessional conclusions that homosexual sex is unchaste.

What can we learn from Christian Reformed churches that reported growth through evangelism? 

As of 2024, there are 384 church disability advocates, representing about 40% of the churches, and 23 out of 49 classes have a regional disability advocate.

With ministry share giving down, the Council of Delegates of the Christian Reformed Church is considering “ways to reduce governance costs, fund synod, and use time wisely.” A report will come in May.

Summary: A recent meeting of the COD included reviewing and sending back for edits a proposed update to the process for receiving exceptions to the Statement of Beliefs of the Christian Reformed Church. It ended with a unison, virtual reciting of the CRCNA’s mission statement

Roger Evans, outreach director at New Hope Fellowship in Monroe, Wash., helps people in his city experiencing homelessness find stability, resources, and hope.

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Cross Town Impact has offered free after-school programming to Brockville, Ont.-area schools for 15 years. When one location rescinded its invitation, a local church stepped up.

A humble man who modeled Christ’s compassionate servant’s heart, Pastor Paul Sausser died Jan. 8 after five years of living with cancer. He was 65.

Being hosted outside North America for the first time, the annual Kuyper Conference will honor evangelist Stephen Tong as the 2025 recipient of the Kuyper Prize.

Jamie McIntosh, appointed as World Renew’s executive director-Canada in 2023, is no longer working for the agency. The Canadian board announced chief marketing and philanthropy officer Mike White will act in the role for now.

Hosted by a Christian Reformed pastor serving as dean of chapel at Dordt University, and produced with a fellow former missionary, Missions Upside Down revisits gospel-sharing history and looks to the future in a six-part series.

A powerful and transformational preacher, Bob Ritsema pastored six congregations and served one outreach ministry. He died Oct. 29, 2024, at age 80.

A pastor and chaplain who nurtured many interests, Peter Kranenburg's life was defined by the power and grace of Jesus Christ. He died Jan. 7 at age 95.

As a pastor and chaplain, Tom Dykstra consistently demonstrated his faithfulness, dedication, and compassion for others. He died Jan. 3, at age 69.

David Zandstra, arrested in July 2023 to face murder and kidnapping charges in the 1975 death of an 8-year-old girl, was found not guilty as his trial ended Jan. 17. A previous suspension of his ministerial credentials will be reconsidered.

Christians around the world are being attacked and killed, forced to flee and driven underground, the annual report finds.

Pastor Henry Eshuis, compassionate, thoughtful, and caring to all he encountered, died Dec. 2, 2024. He was 90.