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  • History in the Making: The Tearing Apart of Jerusalem

    From the very first mention in the Scriptures Salem, the city of peace, was known for its hospitality under the leadership of the high priest and king, Melchizedek (Gen. 14:18-20). Salem is believed...
    May 25, 2018
  • Does Social Justice Contribute to Church Decline?

    S. F. Moore, E.T. Bethell, and J.S. Gale are not the names of trivia questions in the history of world Christianity game board. And yet their ordinary well-manicured graves, along with 145 other...
    May 21, 2018
  • Know Your History, Beloved

    I am from Madagascar. Like the movie? Usually the response of anyone aged 25 and under. I’ve never met anyone from Madagascar. From those 25 and over. The island of Madagascar broke off from the...
    May 11, 2018
  • The Church: A Community of Visionaries

    “In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.” The Holy Spirit descends...
    May 4, 2018
  • How did Lent Shape Me?

    This year for Lent I was thinking about something a friend of mine, Karen Wilk, had been talking about in the lead up to Lent. She noted that often people give things up in order to focus more on God...
    May 4, 2018
  • Let Justice Roll Down Like a River!

    June 10 is Office of Social Justice Offering Sunday. In addition to Ministry Share support, it is the yearly offering from CRC churches like yours in the U.S. and Canada that make this important work...
    May 3, 2018
  • Were You There?

    Were you there when a Starbucks manager called the police on Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson less than two minutes after they arrived for a routine meeting with a business partner?
    April 30, 2018
  • Clinging to a God who Carries Tragedy Around

    I went to a concert in Toronto last night. Donovan Woods played the Danforth Music Hall. He walked on stage, hat in hand, and said (paraphrased): “I live in Toronto too. And I’m thinking about that...
    April 27, 2018
  • Agents of Hope in Unjust Structures

    Created in God’s image, human beings were made with a unique capacity for developing structure and accentuating the beauty of God’s world. God’s intention was that we would be like his signet ring...
    April 27, 2018
  • Responding in Prayer to the Refugee Crisis

    “Know that the Lord our God loves refugees and His Spirit is moving among them. I pray that their stories will capture your heart like they did mine because then you’ll be moved to do something, too...
    April 23, 2018
  • What Do Words Matter?

    This past weekend I had the chance to attend the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. And I was filled with questions. Deep, philosophical questions. I love to...
    April 20, 2018