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While the Office of Race Relations educates and equips members to dismantle the causes and effects of racism, the Office of diversity supports this work by coming alongside leaders and churches from diverse backgrounds.

For the first time in three years, the CRC’s synod was finally able to meet face to face, but debates and votes on issues around human sexuality show a deeply divided denomination.

After ruling that seven minutes of the official recording of the June 16 morning session of Synod 2022 should be excised from the public version of that recording, officers of Synod 2022 reversed that decision. The unedited video was posted June 21.

At the close of the Christian Reformed Church’s general assembly, officers Aaron Vriesman, Jose Rayas, Derek Buikema, and Luann Sankey shared brief thoughts.

Executive director Colin Watson Sr. presented plaques for three churches celebrating 150 years, and synod did a lot of other things as it met June 10-16, 2022.

Montreal’s Arcade Fire returns after five years with a more humble, relational album.

Set in traditional Coast Salish territory, this story opens the door for children of all ethnicities to glimpse a traditional Indigenous lifestyle.

So much of our quality of life hinges on the conversations we have with ourselves.

Teach kids how to pray with this beautifully illustrated Bible storybook.

Now this—Top Gun: Maverick—is why people should see movies in theaters.

New York Times-bestselling author and acclaimed linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric.

I’ve learned that true Christlike listening involves sacrificing my own agenda for an interaction and truly entering into someone else’s story with empathy and compassion.

The oldest and youngest delegates at Synod 2022 are from the same classis and sat beside each other the whole week.

Synod delegates worked through a series of proposals as a response to Classis Greater Los Angeles’ overture to “oppose white supremacy and systemic racism.”

Debra Chee and Evelyn Bennally are the first two women to be ordained as commissioned pastors through the Christian Reformed Church’s Red Mesa classis Leadership Development Network program.

For many years, holding two services on Sunday was a mark of the Christian Reformed Church. A change to Church Order has ended that era.

In an extremely rare move, delegate Dominic Palacios was judged to have violated the rules of decorum during discussions about the human sexuality report.

Choosing not to appoint a committee to help define what is meant in Church Order Article 28-a, “ecclesiastical matters” are left up to interpretation in the Christian Reformed Church.

The general assembly of the CRC put in place a committee to see that the Grand Rapids, Mich., congregation complies with synod’s rulings on same-sex marriage.

LGBTQ allies, dressed in all black, gathered to lament the decisions made at synod.

Church of the Servant, a Christian Reformed congregation celebrating 50 years in 2023, will be host church for the next synod.

Delegates at Synod 2022 questioned Zachary King and learned more about his views before appointing him to be the general secretary of the Christian Reformed Church.