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Announced internally last November, Rev. Jul Medenblik intends to retire from the presidency of the 150-year-old seminary that serves the Christian Reformed Church of North America. This will conclude 16 years of stewardship at the Seminary, a period marked by significant changes in society, culture, and technology. At the outset of his tenure as president, Medenblik set a posture of service. A hallmark phrase he initiated at Calvin Theological Seminary, “Called To Serve,” uses the seminary's initials, CTS, and has since been ingrained in the institution's language and ethos for a decade and a half. In his internal announcement, he shared, “When I was called as President-elect in 2010, I could not imagine all that would unfold. Along the way...

As churches worldwide prepare for the annual Season of Creation—observed each year from Sept. 1 through Oct. 4 to celebrate the Creator and to renew the shared call to care for the earth—a newly released curriculum aims to equip young hearts for environmental stewardship. The free, five-week unit produced by the Climate Witness Project is designed for children ages 4–10 in Sunday schools, Christian schools, and homeschool settings. Grounded in the biblical concept of shamar (caring/keeping), the resource uses Scripture, music, picture books, and hands-on activities to frame creation care as an act of joy, hope, and worship. Grounded in Biblical Hope and Local Stewardship This year’s theme centers on the gift and necessity of water, highlighted in Ezekiel 47:9...

Over the past year, the Global Vision Implementation Team has been working to help the CRCNA navigate a rapidly changing ministry landscape shaped by growing global relationships. Formed after Synod 2024 affirmed the Global Vision Team report ( Acts of Synod 2024, pp. 690-709, 807-9), the implementation team was tasked with helping the denomination reflect on what closer partnerships with churches outside North America could look like in practice. The team’s work responds to a growing reality within the CRCNA: nearly 25 percent of congregations are now made up mainly of non-Anglo members, many of whom are immigrants who maintain deep ministry connections with their countries of origin. Across the denomination, pastors and ministry leaders are preaching, teaching, mentoring leaders...

The teaching in Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical has strong similarities with the ideas that drove the abolitionist movement in America.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) will join the global Christian family in opening the 2026 Season of Creation, the ecumenical world's month of prayer and action for creation. Communities on every continent have already lived through record heat, wildfires, and flooding in 2026, many of them home to WCC member churches. 

The city of Florianópolis in South Brazil is hosting, from 26-30 August, the 35th General Council of the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB), the highest decision-making body of the church. In a greeting, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay extended prayers to the leadership and participants.

Mongolia is hosting the UN Convention to Combat Desertification for the first time, with nearly 77 percent of its land already degraded. Its theme is "Restoring Land, Restoring Hope." A World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation is in Ulaanbaatar for the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP17).

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