A look back at our top Do Justice articles of 2025 (ranked by pageviews) gives us a meaningful glimpse into the conversations that shaped our year. As you revisit these standout pieces, our hope is that they continue to encourage, challenge, and inspire you.

To our writers, thank you for sharing your gifts and perspectives, and to our readers, thank you for engaging, reflecting, and walking with us. 

1. No Hoops to Jump Through - Jenna Hoff

It was a quiet Sunday morning service last spring when, during church announcements, my ears suddenly pricked up…

2. Mission in Japan: Less Than One Percent Christian - Taka Ashida

The Christian Reformed Church in North America started their “Mission in Japan” in 1950. The Tokyo Egota (or Ekota) mission station was one of the earliest mission stations established by the CRCNA in Tokyo, Japan. I was baptized at the mission station in 1982, which is now Ekota Reformed Church in Japan…

3. Why We Need John Lewis - Rev. Reginald Smith

I’ve been thinking a lot about the late John Lewis, the civil rights icon and former congressman from Georgia who died almost five years ago. John had many lessons that could help us to keep our hearts and heads in a helpful place. Here are three I think we need right now…

4. Intercultural Cohort Leaders Sharing the Growing Pains of Becoming Multicultural - Rev. Reginald Smith

Syd Hielema shared he experienced terrible pain that awakened him from sleep. He ran to his parents’ room with his complaint. His father listened intently and lovingly to his pre-teen son. His father told him he was experiencing growing pains that assured Hielema his pains were normal…

5. Working on Reconciliation at Meadowlands CRC - Arn Boonstra & Valerie Henschel

In 2020 Meadowland Fellowship CRC, located in Ancaster, Ontario, started the Hearts Exchanged journey. Our journey has been enlightening as it helps us advocate for justice in places where justice has long been overlooked…

6. Taybeh: City of Refuge - Dr. Rev. Mae Elise Cannon

The city of Ephraim is mentioned in the Christian Scriptures in the Gospel of John and was known as the place of refuge where Jesus sought solace away from Jerusalem prior to his execution…

7. Running the Race for Peace - Dr. Rev. Mae Elise Cannon

Growing up, my father was always a fantastic runner. A really good runner. He ran a sub-five-minute mile in combat boots in Vietnam in the early 1970s. He almost qualified for the Boston Marathon, missing the cutoff by only three minutes when he was in his mid-50s. He described the qualifying race as feeling like his “foot was broken.” It was one of the greatest disappointments of his life that he didn’t qualify…

8. Allegation Pathways - Natasha Vander Vies

Over the winter season, I asked fellow congregants what safe church questions, concerns, and/or opinions they had to better understand what resources could be beneficial to them. One of these congregants expressed, “I would be interested to know what happens after an allegation of abuse is made in the church against a church leader”...

9. Sacred Power - Natasha Vander Vies

It’s nearing the end of the Summer season and with the start of September, comes the start of church nursery, Sunday School, catechism, youth groups, Friendship groups and various other church groups.  This time is therefore a good time to remember and reflect upon the privilege and sacred duty we have as church leaders to create and maintain safe spaces for those most vulnerable amongst us…
 

10. A Prayer for the Hungry - Carol Bremer-Bennett

We come before You as Your children, Your family. We stand on the sacred earth You have given, our feet planted in the dust that carries the stories of those who came before us. We lift our hands to the sky, seeking Your wisdom, Your mercy, and Your justice…