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It’s easy to confuse shame with guilt or embarrassment, but shame is way more toxic.

Two or three times each year, Christian Reformed churches send representatives to their classes, regional groups of churches. Actions of classes in the past several months include two completed disaffiliations, several pastors released from ministry, and overtures going to Synod 2025.

A farm boy who God made into a pastor, Gary Hutt, served seven churches during his ministry. He died Feb. 22 at age 87.

We live in a time that encourages anything and everything but reflection.

By combining memorable stories with rich meditations on Scripture, Kristin Couch encourages readers to see that God is at work even in life’s mundane moments.

Small Things Like These is an artful Irish movie about large matters.

In Becoming the Pastor's Wife, Barr draws on her experience and her academic expertise to trace the history of the role of the pastor's wife, showing how it both helped and hurt women in conservative Protestant traditions.

The Facebook page of Center Grove Church in Greenwood, Ind., is filling up with beautiful images and daily scriptural reflections as Pastor Art DeBruyn works his way through 1,000 days of devotions.

The Family Fire team addresses struggles that often go unspoken—challenges in marriage, parenting, and spiritual growth—while reminding believers of God’s unfailing love.

An ebullient record connects listeners to joy in the Lord.

Los psicólogos sugieren que la empatía es crucial para ayudar a las personas que sufren. ¿Podemos amar de verdad a nuestro prójimo como a nosotros mismos si no tenemos cierto grado de empatía?

Here’s how I approach making new friends at church.

I spied a mother and her two little boys pushing a loaded cart toward the exit.

Jesus told us how to handle our differences, and it’s not chaotic or complicated.

Beloved and bestselling storyteller Patricia Polacco draws on her Ukrainian heritage in this picture book following one family’s history through the generations and the powerful bond of their love.

Misunderstood because of her green skin, a young woman forges an unlikely but profound friendship with a popular student. Following an encounter with the Wizard of Oz, their relationship reaches a crossroad.

Think, pray, and reflect through the stories of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrectio

In over 13 years of serving as a food distribution hub Akron (Ohio) Christian Reformed Church’s The Landing has transformed the congregation, becoming more aware of the poor and working to provide for community needs.

Generally, a decline in American religiousness observed since at least 2007 has slowed over the past four to five years, Pew Research shows in its 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study.

“The massive cutting of foreign aid to those most in need, and from many faith-based organizations supplying it is a gospel issue for us that we must speak to,” reads one of the letters from faith groups.

“Unless women tell their stories, someone else will tell it their way.”

La rendición de cuentas es mejor cuando se produce en el marco de una relación y conlleva el compromiso de caminar con la persona o el grupo al que se le pide cuentas

A theologian with bipolar disorder writes a complex and riveting memoir.