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You will spend multiple days sitting in the same chair while you discuss, debate, and sometimes exchange heated words over a variety of proposals.

As soon as we are old enough to get a job, how much we should work becomes a question.

George Bailey’s story still holds up 80 years later.

See our list of movies, books, and podcasts to check out this month.

Vander Ploeg was a staunch conservative, dedicated to preserving the CRC’s Calvinistic heritage.

This saying is not in the Bible.

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.