A poem about a bittersweet memory.

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Should Christians receive a vaccine that uses aborted fetal cells in its production?

It’s best to approach life like fresh bread intended to be made and eaten daily.

The New Testament makes this point as well when it compares the road that leads to eternal life as narrow and the one that leads to destruction as broad.

Even though that 2013 report named them, I wonder how much these fears have been openly acknowledged and transparently wrestled with by CRC leaders.

This dual perspective—love for a country and the thought that I would never fit in—has served me well.

I remember thinking, in the crowded sanctuary, lit purple and red with sweeping lights, “I am not this kind of Christian.”

Jesus tells us to proclaim that “the kingdom of God has come near,” but what does that really mean?

I jumped out of bed and followed him out to our terrace on the 24th floor. Thick, black smoke was rolling out from the North Tower of the World Trade Center six blocks away.

I’ve reached the third third of my life. What does faith formation look like after a life of going to church and being serious about my faith?

During his ministry, Jesus continually showed how God values what we consider common.

Richard Dawkins, one of Christianity’s fiercest detractors, declared in his best-selling book The God Delusion that “the God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.”

Baseball, the American pastime, is a sport that many parents and grandparents share with children. But do we bring the same intentionality to bear on passing down through the generations a desire to worship God?

As I look at the miracles recorded in the four gospels, I see four general categories in which these miracles were performed: healing the body, casting out demons, controlling nature, and raising the dead.

What is gaslighting, and how do we respond to people who gaslight us?

One woman tells her story of navigating eight decades of growing and leading in the church.

Migration is mysterious and amazing.

I know Sunday mornings are not the peaceful, relaxed times that so many of your friends enjoy.

From north to south and east to west the people in power in Canada and the U.S. historically have failed to see others in the image of God.

In the wake of multiple announcements of discoveries of unmarked graves at former Canadian residential schools for Indigenous children, waves of agony have crashed across the country.

I never experienced the God of rest until my junior year of college. I was sitting alongside the sandy shores of Lake Michigan and trying to not have an anxiety attack.

I remembered learning that if someone isn't speaking your love language, they can love you, but you won’t feel it.