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Tsunamis wipe out entire villages. Hurricanes cut a swath of death and destruction. Floods wash away the possessions of a lifetime.

The need to gather with others is part of living in community.

In Leo Tolstoy’s short novelThe Death of Ivan Ilych, a godless, self-centered man struggles through a long and painful dea

A few years ago I was driving along, daydreaming and only half listening to Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac”

Three Indonesian women who ran a Christian Sunday school program were convicted and sentenced Sept.

The government of Ontario said in September it would not permit the use of private Islamic tribunals to settle family disputes between Mu

CNN has chosen Vatican analyst Delia Gallagher to be the network’s first full-time faith and values correspondent.

Years after listening to Christian radio in his native Morocco, Rashid Hmami can now worship in an official Christian church.

When three Christian Reformed Churches in the Chicago suburbs found their membership declining, they knew it was time to talk.

Three Christian Reformed families opened their homes this summer to give children from Belarus a health respite from their contaminated h

Lakeview Christian Reformed Church in Valentine, Neb., is a small church with a big heart and limited resources for outreach.

City transportation planner Jeremy Klop, 34, is practicing what he preaches after winning a new bicycle from Bicycling Magazine.

At the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, once dubbed “the bloodiest prison in America,” the good guys are taking over.

Fifteen students from Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich., helped stage a three-day vigil of prayer, fasting, and advocacy in New York Ci

In September a synodical committee found that the leaders of First Christian Reformed Church in Toronto were acting outside the guideline

Two Christian Reformed scientists recently collaborated on a NASA space project known as Deep Impact, though they didn’t know it at

On Sept. 23, the chapel service at Holland (Mich.) Christian High School brought Hurricane Katrina into sharp focus.

While sitting on the rooftop of his flooded home in Biloxi, Miss., Taun Anh Le saw a large board floating by.

Dan Vandersteen was thankful to be home after working for two weeks in Louisana following hurricane Katrina.

Ontario (Calif.) Christian School expelled a ninth-grade student in September when the administration learned her mother was living with

Calls Accepted
Rev. Bruce Vaandrager of Morrison (Ill.) Christian Reformed Church to Ada (Mich.) CRC.

If Rev. Wayne Brouwer’s meaty “nutshell” (“Reformation: A Short History,” Oct.

We cowered at the deafening sound of crippled airplanes
and metal fragments crashing to earth.