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Taylor Swift’s seventh album shifts gears from hate to love. 

An illuminating photo-journalism book documents the dignity of those on the margins. 

In a culture drowning in conflict, there is simply nothing more beautiful, needful, or relevant than the reconciling power of the gospel and a people willing to live in light of it.

Whatever it looks like and however it is made, bread is a part of many celebrations and everyday meals all around the world.

The author of Genesis had no intention of giving us a 21st-century, scientifically precise account of how God created all things.

Mark Charles, speaker and author with Navajo and American-Dutch lineage with a history in the Christian Reformed Church, is running an independent campaign for the U.S. presidency, desiring to build a nation where “‘We the people’ truly means all the people.”

Dordt University’s two Pro-Tech programs offer students a different way to train for careers in agriculture and manufacturing.

What the horror genre has to teach us about good and evil. 

A beautifully narrated middle-grade novel highlights the dignity of India’s street children.

I recall the days when “Grape Road” was lined with cornfields and farmsteads. Now it’s a continuous three-mile strip of commercialism.

In making the visit, she saw how volunteers such as these in the village of Akokma are making progress possible even after an official program has ended.

I await the day when my grandchildren see the stone at our home and ask me, “Why did your Trinity colleagues send you off with that verse?”

A well-known memoirist takes a DNA test and makes an earth-shattering discovery.

Netherlands-based, worldbeat band Trinity stubbornly holds onto their God-story. 

We tell ourselves that we’re not playing for the money, and this might be true for a friendly game of no-stakes poker, but lotteries are always about the money, aren’t they?

Elizabeth felt excluded; everyone else had received those blessing words. She wondered if other persons with disabilities had similar experiences.

Mental health has been on the minds of The Banner staff and its readers.

With three days, 100-plus people, and church members aged 2 to 90, First Christian Reformed Church in Oskaloosa, Iowa, launched a mission in Mahaska County to love their neighbors with action.

Members of the youth group from Immanuel Christian Reformed Church in Orange City, Iowa, traveled to the Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota this summer, helping to run a Vacation Bible School for about 65 kids.

An annual middle-school service project at a New Brighton, Minn., church multiplied its impact this summer as two other Christian Reformed congregations came on board.

Social activist Mya navigates her preteen world in this sparkling middle-grade novel. 

A charming movie about a British Pakistani teen and his love for Bruce Springsteen’s music.

A memoir of a broken CRC family and the Michigan land that binds them.