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Five of the musicians and poets who participated in this fall’s open mic share their thoughts on how their art interacts with the church community.

Have we ever wondered what younger generations think about us? What do they think we view as important? What do they hear us say?

“It was really important for me coming out of (university) to understand how my faith connects with what I do.”

An art expert and a thief travel the world to solve an ancient mystery

A winsome children’s picture book comparing the rhinoceros and the rhinoceros beetle.

Given time to reassess, to think about what the potential outcomes could have been, I would have made a different decision. I would not have swerved.

Storms and challenges, promises and blessings—“Waterfalls” explores the complexity of life through these biblical themes.

There seem to be only three persons absolutely necessary to make a marriage a Christian marriage: the man, the woman, and God.

젊은 세대들이 우리를 어떻게 생각하는 지 생각해 보셨습니까? 그들은 우리의 가치에 대해 어떻게 생각할까요? 우리의 말을 듣기나 할까요?

성경에서 생명은 관계를 의미합니다. 그것은 몸과 영혼이 하나님께 속하는 것이고, 다음으로 공동체에 속하는 것입니다.

A warm and engaging look at the life and career of one of the finest singers of the 20th century.

In the tradition of Because of Winn Dixie, a young girl deals with her mother’s suicide in this riveting juvenile novel.

Old-fashioned whodunit movie surprises, delights.

With a mission to “challenge, mentor, and enable students to think, work, and live as Christian disciples in the academy and in their professions,” Christian Reformed Campus Ministries at the University of Toronto, Ont., has been active for 50 years.

Parry Stelter, founder of Word of Hope Ministries and a member of  Hope Christian Reformed Church in Stony Plain, Alta., is extending education in the work of reconciliation.

Gary M. Burge’s feature “Pew or Canoe” and Clayton Libolt’s news story “Synod Declares Kinism a Heresy” were among the most engaging this past year. Thanks for reading!

Our younger leaders are asking us to trust them: trust them to lead, trust them to plan worship, trust them with hard conversation, trust them with the budget, trust them to love the church as much as their elders do.

When Li walked through the door at the start of her holiday break, she almost couldn’t believe her eyes.

The independent religious freedom watchdog whose future was in question in recent months has been reauthorized as part of an omnibus bill.

A memoir of a woman who escaped the clutches of the Jehovah’s Witness religious cult.

Singer-songwriter Sandra McCracken embraces the sacred story of Jesus’ birth.

Helping refugees takes finesse, proper training, and certainly prayer. Above all, it comes with great blessing, for in this partnership we are finding friendship, kinship, and the body of Christ.

Is Kanye West’s much-buzzed-about new album truly his first Christian recording?