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For five years now 200 members of Orland Park (Ill.) Christian Reformed Church gather in mid-December to assemble Christmas gift baskets

Each year when the Lighted Farm Implement Parade is held in Sunnyside, Wash., members of Sunnyside Christian Reformed Church are on hand

Fellowship, Christmas carols, communion, and homemade treats—these are a few of their favorite things.

For the past decade, Maria and Pieter Vlaming brave the wind and cold to deliver Christmas parcels to truck drivers who have to be out on

Every year at Avery Street Christian Reformed Church in South Windsor, Conn., Sunday school children decorate a tree with Chrismons.

In December 2004, Banner Editor Bob DeMoor urged readers to “get his goat.”  To date, more than 5,500 readers have respo

With members hailing from 31 different nations, South Kendall Community Christian Reformed Church had good reason to celebrate All Nation

While firefighters sought to squelch the deadly wildfires across thousands of acres of Southern California, the Christian Reformed World

The closure of a rural church in southern Ontario has split families and grieved churches across Classis Chatham (a regional group of chu

For the past five years the young people of Valley Christian Reformed Church in Binghamton, N.Y., have staged a live nativity for the com

A play about gay Christians, written by Calvin College drama professor Stephanie Sandberg, sold out on its opening night in September and

Rev. Bernard T. Haan

Nov. 14, 1921 – Aug. 27, 2007

Nov. 1, 1930 – June 21, 2007

I always come early for morning services so I can take my place undetected under the back bench.

Should a doctrinal statement that’s nearly four-and-a-half centuries old be used to teach t

 New England isn’t the part of North America that springs to mind when someone says “Christian Reformed Church.” O

Our North American culture today is a study in contrasts.

We rarely think about the things listed on these pages. Yet each one makes a BIG difference in our lives.

Relationships

Q I know a number of people who take antidepressants but never go for counseling.

You have likely witnessed friends or families saying goodbye to one another dozens of times.

It really was, as the cliché goes, a dark and stormy night.

Stopping Violence

Kudos to Rev. David Kromminga for his article “Being Baptized in a Violent World” (October 2007).