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A 17-foot paper-sculpted tree is the focal point for a Bellflower church’s “Tree Tales” Summer Family Nights, a five-week event that kicked off June 28.

"Words coined by Covid deftly woven into a journal/timeline, taking us through two years of surrealism and limbo."—Margaret Atwood

A meticulous horticulturist is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate owned by a wealthy dowager. When he's told to take on her troubled great-niece as an apprentice, his life is thrown into chaos and dark secrets from his past emerge.

This powerful and poignant coming-of-age middle grade debut novel follows an Arab American girl named Yasmeen as she moves to San Antonio with her family and navigates finding friendship—and herself.

The relevance of this message can’t be overstated as we experience conflict in our families, workplaces, friendships, and neighborhoods—not to mention our churches.

Be Unto Your Name is the debut EP from Anchor Hymns, a community of Integrity Music songwriters and artists who care deeply about the theology and the craft of the songs the church sings.

Combining its authors' scientific knowledge, storytelling skills, and insights from theology, Dawn provides a fresh look at the fundamentals of cosmology, evolutionary biology, and the good news of God in one overarching fictional adventure.

It takes the kind of people who are willing to roll up their sleeves and do the dirty work of keeping sheep alive.

While volunteering with a ministry in Greece in 2022, Christian Reformed pastor Peter Armstrong produced a teaching documentary around Acts 17.

Delegates affirmed a decision to expel two Southern Baptist churches, including Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif., because they employed women as pastors.

This beautiful book invites readers to deepen their friendship with Jesus by highlighting his friendships with Mary, Martha, and Lazarus.

Streaming now, this movie starring Tom Hanks is the latest treatment of the 2012 bestselling book A Man Called Ove.

When the German occupation of WWII cracks down on the Danes, two passionate people will discover if there is more power in speech or in silence.

우리가 소중히 여기는 것들을 둘러싸고 생긴 갈등을 마주할 때 우리는 종종 자동적으로 “싸우거나” 혹은 “도망칩니다”.

인종차별과 백인 우월주의, 그리고 우리 교단 내에서 어떻게 함께 공존할 수 있을지에 대한 대화를 우리는 계속 해 나가야 합니다. - 김영광 목사

“Even as we leave this place with much of the brokenness we came in with still all broke, let’s leave with rejoicing on our lips, because that’s always directed toward God,” Paul DeVries, president of Synod 2023, said.

This kind of community might be seen as unusual or even dangerous to many of us who are used to four walls and a fence.

This plant can’t be left to its own devices or it will overtake every inch of ground it can.

Seeking to earn a Servant Leader Award in Stratford (Ont.) Christian Reformed Church’s Cadet group, 14-year-old Nathaniel led six other cadets in building doorway ramps for several local businesses.

Drawing on passages from the church’s definitive gospel treatise, Paul’s letter to the Romans, J.D. Greear unpacks the essential aspects of the Christian message.

This Canadian biographical comedy-drama film is about the history of the BlackBerry line of mobile phones.

Synod did not sustain an appeal by Neland Avenue CRC to Synod 2022’s order to “immediately rescind its decisions to ordain a deacon in a same-sex marriage.”

After having decided to stay with Synod 2022’s view that including homosexual sex as ‘unchaste’ has confessional status, Synod 2023 debated how to speak love and urge prevention of harm to LGBTQ+ people in the church.