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A crafters’ group in California uses its hobby to help teens in crisis.

For an Alberta youth pastor, hosting a weekly radio program ties together his love of radio with his love of ministry.

Two California churches build prefab houses in the church parking lot before delivering them to Mexico.

According to Sir Francis Bacon, “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” And accor

How do you love someone who is hard to love?

In Bowling Alone (Touchstone), Robert D.

Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion—the same survey as Christian Smith’s Soul Searching—this fascinati

Babies are endlessly fascinating, and so is this documentary now out on DVD.

When Patricia MacLachlan was asked to write a book about her life as an author, she responded with a fictional account of a visiting&n

Olivia Tschetter leaves her doctoral defense to learn that her mother has died.

Can you end a sentence with a preposition? Is it proper to say “different from” or “different than”?

Forty years after the birth of the band Led Zeppelin, former lead singer Robert Plant has been reborn as an interpreter of Americana r

Every week, an average of 2,500 people walk through the doors of the Back to God Ministries center in Kinshasa, Congo, in response to

My local church is on a journey though the book of Proverbs—a chapter a day for 31 days.

Every evening for 28 nights, Special Operations soldiers and others squeezed into the office of CRC army chaplain Capt.

Despite their best intentions, pastors don’t always practice what they preach when it comes to spending meaningful time in Scrip

After becoming addicted to drugs at the age of 15, Carlos Vazquez quickly grew angry and aggressive.

Brian Fuller, a Calvin College communication arts and sciences professor, was intrigued by what he had heard about Mustard Seed School

Bible publisher Zondervan ventured into new territory late last year by releasing what is said to be the first digital e-Book version

ServiceLink is a volunteer program of the Christian Reformed Church in North America that provides a one-stop resource center to link

Elly Dalmaijer says she and her husband, Jack, “never plan anything . . . we just live life as it goes.”

A minister was approached by a congregant who said he was worried about the strange dreams he was having.

One of the best-kept secrets of New Testament exegesis concerns the interpretation of the parable of the sheep and the goats (Matt.