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Remembered as a caring, diligent shepherd who related to everyone with the heart of a father, teacher and friend, Rev. Ezra Ng died Nov. 1, 2022, just short of his 85th birthday.

Global food security is an ongoing issue that has become more complex with climate instability and COVID-19. World Renew offers hungry people opportunities to meet their needs sustainably.

From the annual Passion conference comes a live album with an hour and a half of worship music.

Let us learn to take the often tough, long, and tiresome road.

Classical and denominational work can be demanding, but it is another important part of ministry, several pastors agreed.

The 2023 CRCNA Congregant Survey shows respondents pray or do devotions alone most of the time.

A pastor with a kind and gentle spirit who affirmed God's faithfulness and grace into the final days of his 99 years, Jack Matheis died Sept. 6.

Dordt University in Sioux Center, Iowa, is among Christian post-secondary schools setting ‘a record for breaking records’ this year. Other Christian Reformed affiliated schools also report strong numbers.

New Life Church, a congregation of the Christian Reformed Church within the Newton (Iowa) Correctional Facility, has been back to worship post-pandemic for nine months. It’s feeling growing joys and pains.

Read the paperback version of The Maid, a cozy whodunnit, just in time for its sequel, The Mystery Guest, releasing in November.

Quarterback follows three of the biggest quarterbacks in the game – Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins and Marcus Mariota – through the 2022-2023 NFL season.

Encanto meets The Chronicles of Narnia by way of Colombian folklore in this middle grade fantasy adventure.

Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron Age world through the suspenseful dual narrative of a boy and girl both battling to survive.

With guns at the ready, men in military uniforms were running through his family’s compound in South Sudan.

Despite Rajan’s high status and material success, his actions left him feeling spiritually exhausted and even afraid.

‘We wanted to bridge a gap’ said NAE’s director of racial justice and reconciliation collaborative.

The CRC’s Adrian Jacobs reflects on his former parishioner, Indigenous artist Jace Martin, whose Beautiful Broken Pieces album was released in September 2023.

Does God want us to create computers with artificial intelligence even though he gave us perfectly good brains to do the work ourselves?

See how readers responded to recent Banner issues, articles, and columns.

Eight Ontario churches and one in Iowa are helping each other over the next eight months to be “profoundly welcoming and hospitable to the LGBTQ+ community” while honoring the parameters of the CRC’s recent human sexuality report.

A Canadian memoirist tells the story of her immigrant father’s faith, even as he suffered from ALS.

The debut picture book by Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author Matthew McConaughey

Malcolm Guite reads poems and other classic literature from his enchanting library.