February 2016 Issue

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Our Shared Ministry

• Elsa Bakes Her Way to a Successful Livelihood
• Home, Sweet College
• In Praise of Going Slowly
• Making God Known
• Mentoring and Transforming in Cambodia
• Renewal Lab Helps Revitalize Local Churches
• Young at Heart Seniors Mentor Youth
• ‘Recognizing the Racism in My Own Heart’

Mixed Media

• Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
• The Inside Story
• The Lowdown
• The Martian
• The Wonderlands (Four EPs)
• Untwine
• Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God

Columns

• Big Questions: Ethics
• Discover: Here’s to Your Heart
• Still: Holloways
• Editorial: Jesus Barabbas or Jesus Christ?
• The Other 6: Joining the Conversation: A Letter to My Son
• Reply All: Letters to the Editor: February 2016
• Point of View: Punch Lines
• Big Questions: Relationships
• The Other 6: Rethinking the Death Penalty
• Vantage Point: What We Believe

Features

• Are You There, God?
• Ash Wednesday
• Practicing Resurrection

News

• British Columbia Church Screens Documentary about Sexual Exploitation
• Former Car Dealership Repurposed for Worship
• Iglesia Cristiana Reformada en Cuba: The Christian Reformed Church in Cuba
• In Memoriam: Rev. Harry Adrian VanderWindt
• In Memoriam: Rev. Henry Morgan DeRooy
• Knitting a Mountain of God’s Love
• Long-Time Calvinette Director Dies
• Moms Share Ups and Downs of Special Needs Parenting
• Pastoral Guidance for Churches Regarding Same-Sex Marriage
• Pullman Youth Make Blankets for People Without Homes
• Redeemer Student Presents Manure Research at International Agricultural Conference
• Wisconsin Church Helps Feed the Hungry