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Seamlessly weaving between the Great Depression and a journey aboard the Titanic, Nikki Shannon Smith tells a story about what it means to survive, and all those we leave behind to do so.

Through the eyes of three siblings and their moshom (grandfather), readers are taken on a journey filled with cherished moments, from cheering at sports events to sharing traditional Cree knowledge and language.

Four Chicago-area Christian Reformed churches hosted a Ministry Residency Intensive this summer, encouraging students and blessing local congregations.

Named Kuyper College’s seventh president in June, Daniel Churchwell was inaugurated in the role in October.

Faced with a smaller congregation in a changing neighborhood, Emmanuel CRC in Sauk Village, Ill., found a new calling without “looking for an off-ramp.”

Ahmet was raised a Muslim but curious about Christianity.

Motherhood is overwhelming, tender, exhausting, and beautiful—and can feel like a spiritual desert. But what if motherhood offers us a deeper understanding of who God is?

How does that happen? How does something wrong become so familiar that we stop giving it a second thought?

This Thanksgiving sonnet is a reference to 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18.

Troubled by his nonchalance, I envisioned daggerlike freezing rain, stabbing cold, and cutting snow.

Like the other two confessions, the CD points believers to comfort.

Best-selling authors Marilynne Robinson and Nicholas Kristof are the latest in a series of speakers for free lectures sponsored by Geneva Campus Ministry at the University of Iowa.

We came home that day, and in a few hours the nurse called us and gave us the worst news possible.

A tiny mouse faces down an incoming storm to protect her home in this tribute to courage and the rugged beauty of Cape Cod from Newbery Honor–winning author Lauren Wolk.

Singer-songwriter Justin Gambino uses a garden metaphor for his first collection of worship songs.

The plot is inspired by the real-life actions of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, a Jewish couple from Philadelphia who successfully navigated bureaucratic loopholes to rescue 50 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria in 1939.

Created by deacons for deacons for mentorship and discipleship, Diaconal Ministries Canada celebrated 25 years in October, joining God in his work of renewal.

Ora et labora. In two trips during 2026, members of Almond Valley Christian Reformed Church in Ripon, Calif., embraced this centuries-old credo: pray and work.

Gratitude can feel like a naive response to the world, a way of ignoring the bad to focus solely on the positive. But giving thanks can be done in any circumstance.

From the author and illustrator team of The Creator in You, this picture book offers a kid-friendly introduction to what God saved us from and what God saved us for—the good works prepared in advance for us to do.

Kuiper became “known as the ‘voice’ of the Christian Reformed Church through his long tenure as editor of The Banner.”

Technologies aren’t neutral; they shape the messages they transmit.