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Entering Ordained Ministry

Entry into ordained ministry in the Christian Reformed Church is governed by Church Order Article 6

A Christian high school student from Cutlerville, Mich., has been named Mr. Basketball 2006.

April Fool!

As much as we’d like to think that if Believers of Grace-U.S.

In the face of one of the worst natural disasters in U.S.

They creep, they crawl, they scuttle, they gallop. They fly, hop, slither, and swim.

It’s been almost 400 years since the Christian Reformed Church has added a new confession.

An elderly Middle Eastern man lived just outside New York City for more than 40 years.

After more than five years of challenges and delays, Classis Northcentral Iowa hopes a church plant in Rochester, Minn., will soon becom

Q. Why does our denomination place so much emphasis on the Ten Commandments and so little on the Beatitudes?

As a greenhorn seminary intern I found my first church council meeting overwhelming.

As the Christian Reformed Church continues to move away from its traditionally Dutch roots, two traditions are coming to an end in weste

As this issue of The Banner reaches you, Partners Worldwide, an outreach by Christian business professionals affiliated with t

In October 2003, what became known as the “Cedar Fire” roared through the mountains of southern California, destroying 3,500

Rev. Gerard (Jerry) Dykstra is the nominee for executive director of the Christian Reformed Church in North America.

Leaders of the Christian Reformed Church on both sides of the border have been writing to their governments in recent weeks.

News from Classis Meetings

Two or three times each year, Christian Reformed churches send representatives to classis, a regiona

Tithing isn’t just personal for this Holland, Mich., congregation.

Child safety is such a high priority for churches that a recent workshop promoting child-safety policies filled to capacity, forcing the

From Community Christian Reformed Church, Kitchener, Ontario, to Rev. Darren Roorda of Bellevue (Wash.) CRC.

I preached the installation sermons recently for two colleagues, newly ensconced in nearby churches.

Rev. Calvin Bremer’s suspension from the ministry has been lifted, less than six months after it was imposed.

It is often said that 10 o’clock on a Sunday morning is the most segregated hour of the week.

The final tally for last summer’s “Sea to Sea with the CRC” cross-Canada bicycle odyssey shows that the project raised