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Amid an international crisis, a career diplomat juggles her new high-profile job as ambassador to the United Kingdom and her turbulent marriage to a political star.

Introduce the concept of justice to young people with this picture book by New York Times-bestselling author of Doing Justice, Preet Bharara.

I'm drawn to the concept of integrated living. … I am a whole person, and that means that I bring all of who I am into everything I do.

Professional quality coffee shop ambience for studying, working, or just chilling.

A daughter writes alongside her late mother (using journal entries and notes), exploring the transformative way in which sharing food is at the heart of a shared life.

In this diverse picture book, a young immigrant from South Korea finds community and friendship in an apartment building filled with other newly arrived kids.

Are officebearers in the Christian Reformed Church required to teach only penal substitutionary atonement theory, or may they explain other atonement theories?

The conflict over sexuality in the CRC is a symptom of deeper cultural divisions.

Four books to enrich AAPI month, from a modern classic by Amy Tan to an international bestseller about a time-travel cafe in Japan.

Brilliant attorney Woo Young-woo tackles challenges in the courtroom and beyond as a newbie at a top law firm and a woman on the autism spectrum.

About a third of the formal requests coming to Synod 2023 touch on decisions made by last year’s synod on the human sexuality report. Four groups have differing hopes for how synod will respond and different plans for communicating about it.

“Lead Like a Boss,” a new nonprofit designed to prepare young women with leadership skills, was inspired by a CRC member’s experience teaching an interim course at an Illinois Christian high school.

A kind-hearted pastor who lived by a motto “to be Christlike with a servant heart,” Henry Numan died April 6. He was 81.

Meeting June 9-16 in the Calvin University Chapel, Synod 2023 will revisit decisions from 2022, receive two reports deferred from 2020, and address numerous questions of confessional alignment.

News editor Alissa Vernon, editor-in-chief Shiao Chong, reporters Roxanne Van Farowe, Kristen Parker, and Greg Chandler; and photographer Steven Herppich will be in Grand Rapids June 9-15 providing coverage of Synod 2023.

 In its first time to be hosted at Redeemer University in Ancaster, Ont., the Kuyper Conference features Makoto Fujimura as keynote speaker and Kuyper Prize recipient.

Dan DeKam, a Christian school administrator with over 25 years of experience serving schools in Minnesota and Michigan, is the new director of U.S. ministry operations for the U.S. ministry board of the Christian Reformed Church in North America.

Meeting May 3-5 in Grand Rapids, Mich., the Christian Reformed Church in North America’s Council of Delegates and U.S. and Canada ministry boards made appointments, met new staff, and are passing along items to synod.

The CRC Council of Delegates has forwarded to Synod 2023 changes to both the U.S. and Canadian World Renew bylaws that clarify that the relief agency’s relationship to the Christian Reformed Church in North America is one that is connected, but not directed.

Rapper and hip-hop artist Ty Brasel’s fourth album, Transcendent, calls listeners to overcome their own obstacles.

An effervescent movie version of a 1970 classic for tweens, and an insightful documentary explore the life and books of Judy Blume.

Is it to send out applications one at a time and wait? Or send a bunch until I find something?

This is one of the most important tasks before us at this moment as a denomination.