The Banner

Now and then my job allows me to read or tell stories to children.

I get more impatient as I age.

"Grace is deceitful and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised. Proverbs 31:30” (ASV).

Rev.

Neal Plantinga once asked us to imagine a world in which theology was a cause for casual conversation, the way people might discuss the m

Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy.

It stands to reason that sex education begins at birth.

Every spring I get a call from Jeannette. I’ve never actually met her, but she phones me faithfully once a year.

Juan*, now 27, moved with his family to the United States from Mexico more than 13 years ago.

Climate Controversy

The April Banner reported the signing of a climate change declaration written by evangelical leaders from aro

In his Banner article “Got Religion?” (January 2010), Rev.

Got a photo of something funny related to Reformed history, culture, or tradition? Got a funny story or joke?

Mission/Calling

Q I volunteer at my church as well as work and attend to my family.

Do you know any shepherds? No? If you lived in Israel in Bible times, you’d see shepherds and sheep all the time.

I’ve thought a lot about God’s covenant promises since becoming a grandmother six years ago.

It’s a fine challenge to be a bi-national denomination.

Two or three times each year, Christian Reformed churches send representatives to meetings of classis, a regional grouping of churches.

Eight pastors and two of their spouses gathered recently in Grand Rapids, Mich., to learn more about the Christian Reformed Church as par

About 70 students from North America and elsewhere around the world will be taking seminary classes this summer as part of the “Glo

An anonymous donor recently gave $14,000 to Hillcrest Christian Reformed Church in Hudsonville, Mich., to help meet Hillcrest’s ann

In the late 1960s Morris Greidanus, now a retired CRC pastor, called on students at the University of Toronto to do something different a

Shigenori M., a 65-year-old tenant farmer, lives in rural Japan where the social pressures against Christians are great.

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