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My 4-year-old daughter, Zoe, ran into the house after school, breathless and eager to tell me about her day.

I grew up in a large family with three older brothers who raped me whenever they wanted.

Historians, nurses, and psychologists see the world from certain points of view.

Nearly 100 years ago, my grandmother Marguerite left the family farm in Allendale, Mich., after graduating from high school.

About 70 youth ministers, church leaders, and others gathered at Waterloo CRC in Ontario on a Saturday morning for training in abuse prevention and response.

Camp SHOUT (See Him Open Up Truth), a four-week day camp at Jubilee Fellowship Christian Reformed Church in St. Catharines, Ont., is noisy, fast, and crowded

The board of governors of Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ont., announced last week that president Hubert Krygsman is stepping down.

For more than 15 years, Criminal Justice Chaplaincy has worked with Calvin Christian Reformed Church and other churches in Grand Rapids, Mich., to mentor women recently released from prison.

Hillsong Young and Free is the youngest touring worship band to be developed by Hillsong Church in Australia.

Captain James T. Kirk, captain of the Starship Enterprise, is bored. It’s the third year in his crew’s five-year mission to explore the universe—to boldly go where no one has gone before.

A bear cub discovers a piano in the forest, but he has no idea what it is. Touching the keys, he’s appalled by the sound it makes.

As the American political season heats up like an August day in Phoenix, I notice more and more mention of God by political candidates and their surrogates.

For Calvin College philosophy professor James K.A. Smith, the key question for Christians to consider comes from the New Testament book of John when Jesus, writes Smith, wheels around on two would-be disciples and asks them: “What do you want?”

Since she can remember, Adiza Ujo has been bothered by the heaps of trash she sees in her hometown of Abuja, Nigeria.

Dorothy Kaunda was already struggling as a farmer in rural Zambia when she took in her nine orphaned grandchildren.

Twenty participants with special needs, 20 mentors, and countless other volunteers spent last week SERVE-ing in Ottawa, Ont., Canada’s capital city.

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River Rock Church, a Christian Reformed congregation in Rockford, Mich., is showing outdoor movies as a way to help the community become familiar with its location.

Pastor, professor, missionary, pilot, gardener, skilled builder, and talented woodworker, James Calvin De Young was a man who enjoyed new challenges and liked to keep busy.