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“(It) forced me to reevaluate my life and realize that this was not the life that I wanted to live.”

A Christian Food Network host takes readers deep into her love of food.

The Chicago rapper’s second album is long and happy but fails to connect.

As a Christian at a public university, I am asked this question most often. People naturally assume they’re pretty good. The psychologically healthy have a humble recognition of the good in themselves.

Each individual has a unique genetic makeup, social history, and personality, and each teen will navigate this identity crisis in his or her own way.

A week after fires destroyed three unoccupied buildings and caused damage to the current church sanctuary of Naschitti (N.M.) Christian Reformed Church, the council still faces unanswered questions.

The celebration of Hope College’s Sesquicentennial examines its resilience.

At 69, Bruce Springsteen still has much to say. 

The message of God’s good creation of each child underscores this anti-bullying picture book.

Several Christian Reformed congregations have been finding support through conflict by following The Colossian Way, a practice designed to help participants grow spiritually while engaging difficult problems.

Dwayne Thielke, pastor and longtime missionary in the Philippines, died July 27 following three months in the hospital for complications of heart bypass surgery. 

As I looked into the inner abyss of my soul, I saw an unfree self, chained together with an old friend, the pleaser identity.

정죄는 자신의 잘못은 가볍게 여기면서 타인의 잘못은 비판하여 도덕적 우월감을 조성하는 것입니다. 

젊은이들이 그들의 인생과 소명을 준비하는 데에 광범위하면서도 집중적인 교육이 필요합니다.

“Everywhere in Kenya and Uganda, (climate change) is known and accepted as fact. They don’t have time to argue about whether climate change is real or not because they are already living in the effects of it.”  

Scottish reggae album invites listeners outside the American music bubble.

A debut from Melinda Gates, a timely and necessary call to action for women's empowerment.

When we got the news that our adoption was annulled and I had been labeled a five-year hazard, I believed the entire year had been a waste, and I was the one who had wasted it. I believed this knowing what I know as a Christian in my head.

It takes a delicate balance to identify what helps children to worship and what disrupts worship.

“Righteousness” is another word for “justice,” which can be understood to mean something like “treating each person, thing, or situation rightly or correctly.”

Check out the original music and poetry submitted by readers of The Banner.

At Wild Wonder in Willoughby Christian Reformed Church in Langley, B.C., children saw how God cares for his creation and learned how they are able to take care of it, too.