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A 1957 plaque honoring missionaries Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian and Pete Fleming who were killed while attempting to share their Christian faith with the Waorani people in Ecuador contains language now seen as offensive.

What is interesting to me is that Jesus still had the wounds from his crucifixion. Why would Jesus keep these wounds?

Advocating for a ceasefire, which has been in place since Friday, the coalition of churches that works to encourage U.S. policies that actively promote a comprehensive resolution to conflicts in the Middle East, wrote to the UN Security Council on Thursday.

Director Harold Roscher described the center as “simply a community for people of all cultures, faiths, (and) financial standings, ... a place where we can meet and grow together.”

우리가 자부하는 교단 전체의 장점들이 교인 감소 문제를 해결할 수 있다면 지금쯤 다 해결되었어야 하지 않을까요?

A gritty, suspenseful novel traces the far-reaching consequences of secrets in the lives of a Korean immigrant mother and her daughter.

Returning to Christian music after 10 years, Jaime Jamgochian chronicles her healing from Lyme Disease.

Today I am thankful and have to give praise for time and the timeless and the shortness of days …

A little something for everyone to read this summer.

Adam’s original creation covenant mandate from God of subduing or having dominion over the earth was to do it for God’s glory, not man’s.

How many categories of members do we have in the CRC? What should councils do about members who disappear?

Hank the Cowdog (Matthew McConaughey) must venture into the “Unchanted Forest” in a hilarious family podcast adventure.

CRC missionary Wayne Ten Harmsel pulls back for Western readers the shroud of mystery surrounding Chinese registered churches.

In the late 1930s, wealthy landowner Edith Pretty hires amateur archeologist Basil Brown to investigate the mounds on her property in England.

A Chinese immigrant girl faces obstacles and racism in this novel for readers 8-12.

Here are the past eight movie reviews we’ve run in The Banner, plus a note from me about my rationale for assigning, writing, or accepting a pitch for the review.

Pastor and church planter Henry Karsten died April 26 in Visalia, Calif.

Volunteers from Christian Reformed congregations in Grand Rapids, Mich., participated in an effort to encourage residents in under-resourced neighborhoods to be vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19.

The Christian Reformed Church in Cuba, a denomination dating back to the 1950s, is struggling with economic changes and pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic. Congregations of the CRCNA are lending support.

Pastor Willemina Zwart and Immanuel CRC in Simcoe, Ont., are welcoming eight young adults into a summer experience of Christian community with the South Coast Beach Project.

I was scared, and my fear overwhelmed me.

We couldn’t have guessed all the ways the pandemic would invade our “normal” and change how we do work, church, family, travel, and countless other things.

Niamazime Ferdinand’s father died when Ferdinand was 6 years old.