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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.

Chronic pain, disability-related muscle fatigue, and breathing difficulties can make regular work and family life feel like just too much.

“Pastor Pete,” who served as a workplace chaplain for nearly 20 years after 28 years of congregational ministry, died April 13. He was 76.

Given our identity as a Lake Family (and Not a Camping Family), it goes without saying that to be a child in the Hoff Family is to be a Lake Kid.

This middle-grade novel follows an Asian American boy fighting to keep his family together and stand up to racism during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.

One hundred contestants in top physical shape compete in a series of grueling challenges to claim the honor—and cash reward—as the last one standing.

A faith-based time slip novel of suspense, romance, and intrigue.

A regional organizer with the Christian Reformed Church’s Climate Witness Project shares stories of neighborhood transformation through community collaboration.

In Goshen, N.Y., community members without insurance can find health care services by going to an unlikely place: church.

As United Methodist bishops from around the world meet this week in Chicago, they anticipate ‘reconfigured boundaries, reformed agencies, and a revised work plan to achieve our mission.’

What is the intersection between mental health and faith?