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In this poignant picture book, little Midori discovers that every peach on her Japanese American family’s farm is a sweet reminder of those who’ve come before.

National Book Award nominee Mitali Perkins crafts a contemporary chapter-book mystery about a 12-year-old Nepali girl who sets out to solve the disappearance of her Bengali friend’s missing jewelry.

The Banner has been without an editor-in-chief since June 2025. Interim editor Lora Copley is the Council of Delegates’ recommendation to synod for the long-term appointment.

Miranda Priestly struggles against Emily Charlton, her former assistant turned rival executive, as they compete for advertising revenue amid declining print media, while Miranda nears retirement.

Amanda Roozeboom, former commissioned pastor in the Christian Reformed Church, is the new executive director of youth and young adult-focused ThereforeGo Ministries.

Questions of identity are tough and disruptive. They not only guide our approach to today, but they affect our orientation to the future.

Apparently, in back-to-back Sunday sermons, I had left the authors of those two emails with the exact opposite impression.

What happens when fixed eyes are transformed (“fixed”) by Jesus so everything comes into focus?

My church was one of the Christian Reformed churches that stopped offering a formal catechism class for young people. It’s been at least 25 years.

“Peace in Sudan will not come through weapons or foreign interests, but through deliberate, inclusive and just peace processes rooted in the dignity of every Sudanese,” Catholic Bishop Yunan Tombe Trille said.

After 107 years, the original sanctuary of New Holland (S.D.) Christian Reformed Church, will come down in May, making way for a larger construction to house the church.

When a child feels left out, makes a mistake, or is called a name that hurts their heart, how can they know their true identity?

To Olivia offers a grief story in this somber movie about Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal’s loss of a child.

This poignant novel in verse is about a Hmong girl losing and finding home in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. For fans of Jasmine Warga and Veera Hiranandani.

Calvin Christian Reformed Church in Rock Valley, Iowa, has been “exalting God through loving worship for 75 years.”

Emo (Ont.) Christian Reformed Church hosts a pancake breakfast during its town’s Spring Fever Days to raise funds for “worthy local causes.”

Members of the same churches are judging each other’s characters based on their disagreements. Sometimes they refuse to talk to one another while singing songs of unity.

Rediscover the majesty of the ascended Christ just in time for Ascension Day, May 14.

Our sub-plot relationships are to mirror, accurately, the main plot.

The Human Sexuality Report calls for much more than clarifying boundaries. Now it’s time for developing the report’s pastoral recommendations.

As a denomination, we’re on the slope of a decades-long demographic decline. But we must not lose sight of who is in our corner.

Winner of an Illumination Book Award and the 2025 Moonbeam Children's Book Award, this book shows kids that God is with us―even in the dark.