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The picture on the next page hangs in my church office. Parishioners often ask if there is a story behind it.

Bible

Q Why does Matthew’s genealogy (1:1-16), in contrast to Luke’s genealogy (3:23-38), mention four women (Tamar,

Understanding Islam

Thanks for printing “Understanding Islam” (September 2007).

I’m glad that none of us shooed her away.

At first it sounded like someone was about to be really, really sick.

A new supermarket opened near my house. It has an automatic water mister to keep the produce fresh.

Last month I promised to answer the most frequently asked question readers sent in on the bounce-back cards to our very successful (thank

Dad could be such a zeurpiet (ZUR-peet). I don’t know how else to describe it.

Eppinga is waiting for his ship to come in. It won’t. Meanwhile, he has asked me to write his column for a few months.

When 26-year-old farmer and youth elder Josh Lubach from Ponoka, Alberta, politely agreed to an interview for this column, he was happy t

John Calvin shaped the Reformed faith, worldview, and church government.

“This time I’m going to do better.”

The words come muttered with determination, filled with equal parts guilt a

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the most interesting. This month we’ll take a look at something we see and use every day.

Theology

Q: When does the end justify the means?

A: Such “end-means” thinking comes from Utilitarian theorie

Theology

Q When does the end justify the means?

Muhammad was respected as an upright man by those who knew him.

The Christian Reformed Church continues on its dangerous journey.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

—Psalm 139:13

Where Did Our Young Adults Go?

The article “Where did our Young Adults Go?” (August 2007) brings out a problem that m

A husband asked his wife how she thought he’d look in a beard.
“Lonely,” she replied.

In 2005 the annual leadership convention of our denomination, synod, challenged Christian Reformed congregations to make faith nurture, o

It’s easy to be cynical about spiritual memoirs as publishers seem to mine the market for all its worth.

A Calvin College communications arts and sciences professor and two students traveled to a Quechua community in Ecuador recently to make