Let’s encourage more women to contribute to denominational decision-making.

Let’s start paying attention to the musicians who guide us into worship

Celebrating a mother’s love and courage.

Should a congregation change its tradition for the sake of one?

A practical proposal for making Sunday worship integral to our weekday life.

Small churches deserve the denomination’s support.

Should everyone who preaches—not just ordained pastors—be allowed to raise their hands while offering God’s blessing?

The moral and ethical dimensions of an agricultural policy.

There’s a vast difference between the factors that led to the creation of the Belhar and those that gave rise to the church’s historic confessions.

Petitions have no place in the church of Christ.

Do we need to adjust our theology to changing scientific findings?

The evolution issue is a microcosm of why the denomination is hemorrhaging college-educated young adults.

It’s wrong to deny ex-offenders the right to vote.

In recent years you’ve run articles about why young adults leave the Christian Reformed Church for nondenominational churches an

A sturdy brick church in my city sports a poster that you probably wouldn’t find in most Christian Reformed churches.

In the past several weeks, issues surrounding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons and the church have been at the f

In the June 2011 Banner, Chelsey Munneke summarizes a discussion held by passionate young people, which offers a “diagn

We emphasize the significance of the local church.

Terrorism, unrest in the Middle East, spiking oil prices, and Qur’an burnings.

I attended a meeting recently in Washington, D.C., that left me deeply disturbed.

In my humble opinion, our leaders should end their crusade to prod our denomination onto the Global Warming Bandwagon.

As Christians we believe the Earth is a creation of God, a precious gift on which we depend for the necessities of life.

Several issues ago Banner Editor Bob De Moor wrote about his church’s positive encounter with two devout Muslims (“In All