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A clear soprano voice drifts down the narrow street into the gourmet sweet shop where I'm browsing among nut clusters, dark fudge, and fa

Money

Q My income just went down.

One of my great teachers, Henry Stob, a longtime Calvin Seminary professor, never tired of reminding his students that Jesus Christ came

It's 6:30 a.m.—another school day in our household.

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Some time ago I asked my oldest son a question that was very hard to ask.

Recently my family sifted through objects from the past and the memories they inspired while cleaning out a sway-backed old horse barn

The ethical position of the Christian Reformed Church on homosexuality was reaffirmed by the denomination's synod (annual leadership meet

"I just really wanted to help the GEMS in Africa," said Kaitlyn Klumpenhouwer, an eighth-grade student from Living Hope/Redeeme

Since its formation in 2005, The Journey, a growing Christian Reformed congregation in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, has achieved a level

Three years ago I started knitting a blanket, not knowing who would receive it. I was just starting Calvin Theological Seminary's M.Div.

Calvin College stands first among the top 40 baccalaureate institutions in the United States for the number of students who study abroad

Recently the Back to God Ministries International Arabic outreach team received a very angry and threatening text message from a Jordania

Back to God Ministries International (BTGMI) began broadcasting the gospel by radio into mainland China in 1975.

It is amazing how quickly life can change. The least-expected events can alter things radically with little or no warning.

Breakfast at a maximum-security prison, lunch at a huge garbage dump, a stop at a shantytown before dinner, and a visit to street childre

The morning after Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in 1968, third-grade teacher Jane Elliott changed her lesson plan.

The government of Zimbabwe has declared the ongoing cholera outbreak, which has claimed more than 500 lives, to be a national emergency.

India's Supreme Court has told the state of Orissa, on India's east coast, that it will not "tolerate persecution of religious minor

Two top leaders of a fundamentalist polygamous sect in Bountiful, British Columbia, have been arrested and charged with practicing polyga

Evangelical pastor Rick Warren has offered to open the campus of his California megachurch to conservative Anglicans who have broken with

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The economic recession has not led to an increase in attendance at U.S. houses of worship, according to Gallup pollsters.