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See some of our top picks for reading and watching for July and August, 2023.

Pastor, teacher, and non-scientist John Van Sloten invites us to know God more deeply as we marvel at the complexities of his amazing creation.

Henk Rogers discovers Tetris in 1988 and then risks everything by traveling to the Soviet Union, where he joins forces with inventor Alexey Pajitnov to bring the game to the masses.

It’s 1952 in suburban Detroit, and Bertha Harding joins the All-American Women’s Baseball League, even as her father is accused of being a Communist.

Diane Wendt has led the Coffee and Comfort grief group at Orland Park Christian Reformed Church since 1980. As long as God can use her, she says, she’ll keep doing the work of walking with people through their grief.

Many U.S. religious minorities said the ruling was a much-needed corrective to the challenges they face in balancing their work with their sincerely held religious practices.

Through the experience, they caught glimpses of hope in this area of conflict and controversy.

This gentle, reassuring picture book by bestselling author Glenys Nellist and illustrator Sian James encourages children to notice God all around them, in the ordinary people and places of everyday life.

A tidal wave hits as a group of women celebrate their ten-year reunion from an all-girls school. The former students must find a way to survive on the island tip of their high school campus.

Clearly, the face of the once-primarily Dutch denomination is in transition. But becoming more diverse has not been easy.

Prompted by numerous recent sexual abuse scandals in American churches, a faith-based nonprofit shifts its education and support focus to North America.

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.