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Melissa Fischer, an artist and prayer coordinator at Immanuel Church, a Christian Reformed congregation in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., has found a way to pray with her sketchbook, and she’s leading others to express how they see God this way too.

Before “At a Crossroads” was published last summer, the Christian Reformed Church’s resources for navigating a potential church closure were 20 years out of date. In this news feature The Banner looks at some of the realities, responses, and repercussions of disbanding a congregation.

The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a riveting and suspenseful courtroom drama.

Biblical perspectives and solutions to combat hustle and hurry.

A beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos—and how their destinies are entwined across decades.

Every day was full of their screaming, complaining about doing math, running around in the home, bickering with each other about toys.

하나님은 편애하거나 편파적이지 않습니다. (로마서 2:11; 에베소서 6:9). 하지만 하나님이 민족적, 인종적 차이까지 무시하지도 않습니다. 우리는 양 극단에 치우치지 않도록 해야 합니다.

In spiritual direction, the director “gives 100 percent of their attention to listening along with you to what the Spirit is saying.”

Brooks and Emerson each believed that bringing their two churches together could help bring down that division.

Open Doors keeps an annual ranking of the 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution for their faith. North Korea tops the list for the 20th consecutive year.

Walk the path of love with one of the warmest, most beloved spiritual leaders of our time, the bishop who delivered the message at the wedding of Prince Harry and Megan Markle.

Malcolm Gladwell offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers—and why they often go wrong.

A weekly podcast helps listeners discover history’s greatest sermons, such as those by D.L. Moody, Charles Spurgeon, John Calvin and others.

God created the world to work in certain ways and follow certain rules. The sun rises and sets.  Seasons come and go.

The Bingham girls and their siblings attended a segregated school to which they were transported daily in the back of a pickup truck, rain or shine, 20 miles each way.

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Libertas Christian School made headlines this past November for maintaining a staunch opposition to statewide mask mandates in Michigan.

Does being overwhelmed by my job mean I’ve mistaken my calling or am doing something wrong?

Justin Bailey seeks to infuse apologetics with an appeal to the imagination, the aesthetic, and the affective.

Bethel Music’s Cory Asbury hits it out of the park with his third full-length album of worshipful pop.

Newbery Honor-winning author Gail Carson Levine tells a moving and ambitious story about a young Jewish girl who must play her own role in her people's epic history—no matter the sacrifice.

The executive committee of the Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates has approved hiring Tim Rietkerk as the next director of the CRC’s Chaplaincy and Care Ministry.

C.I.A. (Christ in Action) boys club, founded at Sunlight Community Church in Port Saint Lucie, Fla., in 2019, is “helping boys connect deeper with God, learn and understand the gospel, and grow into men who live out their lives in passionate response to the good news.”