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It happened in an instant at a moment when I least expected it.

A retired professor gets a new lease on life when a private investigator hires him to go undercover inside a San Francisco retirement home.

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Bestselling author Jewell Parker Rhodes goes west in this thrilling adventure story about a father and son who set out to win land during the Oklahoma Land Rush—if they can survive the journey.

An Irish story moves viewers along a redemptive arc.

By the author of the award-winning memoir The Honey Bus, a bittersweet picture book about a lonesome and fearful girl who finds herself at home with her grandfather and his honeybees.

Overwhelm is so pervasive in our world as a whole, including within the church.

Classes in the Christian Reformed Church in North America are processing resolutions of disaffiliation and releases of ministers, including eight released at a Jan 16 meeting of Classis Grand Rapids East.

Home is where the heart is, and my heart is on this campus.

Doug Tjapkes has been playing piano and organ in worship in the CRC for 70 years!

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We can follow our Lord in the way of overcoming evil with goodness by seeking to obey the ninth commandment in Christlike ways.

While it contains deep wisdom on life, the book is easily passed over because of the unsavory negativity.

Recognizing the challenge many Christian educators face in integrating faith with mathematical instruction, Dordt University professor Valorie Zonnefeld has built an online resource with real-world applications from a Christian worldview.

Christians Uniting in Song and Prayer invites people from various faith traditions to joint worship services to promote unity within the larger church.

Pricelis Perreaux-Dominguez, who has experienced abuse, trauma, and racism within the church, examines the state of the church and offers us a hopeful path forward.

A dying woman, her cat, and an anxiety-ridden man go on a journey after an alien invasion.

In 1948, scandal-plagued Hollywood star Mercy Windsor seeks refuge in the Colorado mining town where her childhood pen pal lived.

A Christian graduate school founded in the neo-Calvinist tradition in 1967 has severed ties with the Christian Reformed Church in North America over the denomination’s confessional conclusions that homosexual sex is unchaste.

Resonate training is helping teachers lean into their callings.

In a first-of-its-kind volume, The New Testament in Color offers biblical commentary that is multiethnic, diverse, and contextual.

What can we learn from Christian Reformed churches that reported growth through evangelism? 

In light, earthquakes, sound, and water, waves are very similar.