March 2016 Issue

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Our Shared Ministry

• Bringing Hope to Flood Survivors
• Coffee Break Loves Women Right Where They Are
• Partnerships Multiply Ministry
• Seminary Town Halls Look at Two Topics
• Simple, Wise, Responsible
• The Importance of Identity
• Volunteer Is Humbled in Honduras

Mixed Media

• Bridge of Spies
• Brooklyn
• Floodplain
• Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation’s Faith
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Musical Machinations
• Reading Mother Teresa: A Calvinist Looks Lovingly at ‘The Little Bride of Christ’
• Room
• The Big Short
• The Illegal

Columns

• Discover: A Very Holy Week
• Big Questions: Faith Formation
• Big Questions: Justice
• Reply All: Letters to the Editor: March 2016
• The Other 6: Loss and Simplification
• The Other 6: The Promise of Mission Trips
• Editorial: The Wounds of the Risen Christ
• Vantage Point: Where Have All the Shepherds Gone?
• Still: Why Dad Sent Me to the Movies

Features

• Apocalypse Now: Easter as the Beginning of the End
• In the Beginning Was . . . Technology
• The Holy Trinity: The Community of Love at the Heart of Reality

News

• A Car Lot with a Difference
• Ancaster Church Supports Family of Tim Bosma During Murder Trial
• British Columbia Churches Prepare for Refugees
• Colorado Kids Remember Jesus’ Journey to the Cross
• In Memoriam: Rev. Andrew Kuyvenhoven
• In Memoriam: Rev. Gerald Nyenhuis
• In Memoriam: Rev. James (Jim) Cooper
• Just Working Construction Brings Job Training and Hope to Newcomers
• Michigan Classis Accepts Study Report on Same-Sex Marriage, Offers It to Synod 2016
• Ontario Town Welcomes Syrian Family to Canada
• Redeemer Athlete Breaks Ontario Scoring Record
• Synodical Committee Rejects Doctrine of Discovery, Criticizes CRC Ministry to Navajo
• World Missions Partner Helps Syrian Refugees