October 2017 Issue

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Our Shared Ministry

• Breaking Barriers to End Hunger
• Canadian Council of Churches Names CRC Staff Member as Acting General Secretary
• From One Broadcast to a 14,600-Member Denomination
• Is It Worth It?

Mixed Media

• A Ghost Story
• Biblical Authority after Babel: Retrieving the Solas in the Spirit of Mere Protestant Christianity
• Border Child
• Reader-Submitted Review: To Have You Around
• Still a Family: A Story about Homelessness
• The Lowdown: Reformation Commemoration

Columns

• As I Was Saying: Are We Part of the Problem?
• Big Questions: Church/Doctrine
• Big Questions: Ethics
• Reply All: Letters to the Editor: October 2017
• Discover: Miracles, Mold, and Medicine
• Big Questions: Relationships
• Still: Robed in White Apparel
• The Other 6: The Potter’s Hand
• Editorial: We Need a New Reformation

Features

• Hope in the Face of Death
• Prayers of the Infertile: Longing, Hope, and Solidarity
• Reading the New Testament with Jewish Eyes
• Statement on Charlottesville, Virginia
• The Reformation: What Did We Gain? What Did We Lose?

News

• Alberta Church’s Garden: Growing Side by Side
• Coffee Connects International Neighbors in Lacombe, Alberta
• Former Calvin Prof, Congressman Remembered
• Helping Returning Soldiers and Their Families Reconnect
• In Memoriam: Rev. Kenneth Jay Verhulst
• In Memoriam: Rev. Kenneth Vander Heide
• King’s Profs at Work from Guantanamo Bay to Canadian Federal Prison
• Michigan Church Builds on Ethiopian Development Partnership
• Michigan Churches Expand Water Quality Efforts
• Michigan Couple Sharing 50 Years of Hospitality
• Pastors, Churches Respond to Charlottesville Protests
• Piano Teacher’s Stand for Justice at Work Goes Viral
• Two Cultures Worship Together in Edmonton Church