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Thank you so much for “Pastoral Calls That Matter,” by Rev. Louis Tamminga (November 2007).

One Sunday morning years ago I walked beside a less-than-mobile elderly lady toward the front steps of a Christian Reformed church.

How do we keep love from petrifying into law?

What’s on the minds of the next generation of Reformed Christians?

The walrus said to the oysters, “The time has come to talk of many things: of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax &mdas

Have you ever seen counterfeit money?

There are lots of wonderful things to see in our world. But which ones are the most amazing of all?

Relationships

Q. Our daughter and her boyfriend are living together.

These books introduce you to the theory and practice of the spiritual disciplines:

Depending on when you read this, you could be filled with the hopeful glimmer of a shiny list of New Year’s resolutions or thorough

At a recent event, J.K. Rowling was asked whether the character Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of the Hogwarts School of Magic, was gay.

Wicca is the modern term for the practice of witchcraft.

How do we deal with evil?

When I was a child about 5 years old, I would go to my grandfather’s small Baptist church.

One evening after GEMS (girls’ club) I chatted with a counselor and two mothers, while one of their daughters waited nearby.

The Banner invites letters in response to articles that have appeared in this magazine.

I like the Banner editor’s list of hopes for the future of the Christian Reformed Church a

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There are only so many times you want to tell yourself a blatant lie. There are only so many times you want to fall for such a lie.

Recent popular books have ratcheted up the tension between Christianity and competing worldviews.

Some 400 students from across North America will come to Calvin College later this month to learn about international development and to

Seventy children were decorating crosses on the last day of a 10-day gospel outreach program in Soroti, Uganda, when a wild-eyed man appe

What is the Christian church like in the Middle East today? How does it relate to Middle Eastern immigrant churches in North America?