Being a mediocre parent, I pick my battles. Trying to model the values of faith and the covenant community is No. 1. Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation helped me identify No. 2: technology.
Two Christian high schools battled for the boys provincial volleyball championship, with Hamilton (Ont.) District Christian High School taking home the title.
Trinity Christian College’s women’s soccer team won the National Christian College Athletic Association Division I championship.
Follow the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family, beginning with a story of a forbidden romance that leads to a sweeping saga taking place in Korea, Japan, and America.
Wanting to host a fun event that would be a blessing to their community, Trinity Hill Christian Reformed Church in Chanhassen, Minn., launched Cookies and Carols in 2022.
Darkness Calls the Tiger
By Janyre TrompAfter the attack on Pearl Harbor, Imperial Japan devours the southern portion of Burma. Unaware of the coming darkness, Kailyn Moran drifts in her role as the only daughter of a widowed missionary.
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Five Stories
By Ellen WeinsteinFive children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City.
Our disunity is not uncommon, but it is not what God desires for us.
The rise of a generation that can’t or doesn’t read books matters for the church. After all, if people can’t or don’t read books, how will they read the Bible?
Faith leaders and mental health experts say religious traditions and faith communities can play a key role in helping people get through the winter holidays.
From hosting parade viewing to setting up a parking lot Neighborhood Christmas, Christian Reformed congregations are embracing their communities this season.
A model train enthusiast and member of Lee Street Christian Reformed Church in Wyoming, Mich., included a handmade replica of the church building as part of his annual Christmas display.
I realized we could only see this beauty, we could only comprehend this space, we could only receive the light, if we waited, and if we paid attention.
The Art of Living in Season: A Year of Reflections for Everyday Saints
By Sylvie Vanhoozer"What can I give him?” French author Sylvie Vanhoozer takes her hometown tradition of Provençal crèches (nativity scenes peopled by “little saints”) and tries to expand it yearlong.
The Herdmans are six siblings who have a reputation for being the worst kids in the world. Yet when they take over the local church pageant during the holidays, they just might teach a shocked community the true meaning of Christmas.
New Holland (S.D.) Christian Reformed Church had “a perfect night, chilly, with no wind, and the night sky” filled with vivid stars for its annual Living Nativity on Dec. 8.
Why Everything that Doesn’t Matter, Matters So Much: The Way of Love in a World of Hurt
By Charlie Peacock and Andi AshworthA hopeful, practical model for what it means to be a Christian and a culture-maker in a world of hurt and wondrous possibility, from multi-Grammy winner Charlie Peacock and his wife and author, Andi Ashworth.
The Christmas Elephant: A Nativity Story
By Maria Antonia. Illustrated by Laura ZarrinEllie wants to be an elephant in the Christmas play but her know-it-all sister says she’ll ruin everything. When Baby Jesus goes missing, Ellie must find him, or the play will be ruined!
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If I’m busy preparing for the worst, I forfeit the present and the possibilities within it.
Early on in ministry I came out to my church as gay and committed to celibacy.
You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out!: Life Lessons from the Movie A Christmas Story
By Quentin SchultzeTwenty life lessons from the holiday classic A Christmas Story.
A retired professor gets a new lease on life when a private investigator hires him to go undercover inside a San Francisco retirement home.