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After glancing at my calendar and doing a double-take at my ever-growing pregnant belly, I realize that I will miss out on Mother’s

Last year Rev.

John Nash is one of the most gifted mathematicians of our lifetime. As a student at Princeton he wowed everyone with his genius.

Every night of your life, something very mysterious happens to you. You lie down, close your eyes, and you FALL ASLEEP.

I was a member of a Second Blessing church before I joined the Christian Reformed Church.

Finance

Q I heard [national Christian financial counselor] Dave Ramsey say, “If you

Coffee Shop Confusion

I appreciated the excellent and important article “Does Your Church Have the Right to Exist?” (

About 25 years ago reports began to surface about physical, emotional, and sexual abuse perpetrated by members and even leaders in the Ch

I’ve sunk deeper into our home lately.

With great interest I’ve followed our discussions on homosexuality in The Banner, on the Banner website, and on “Bob’s

When churches add ministry staff—worship leaders, youth pastors, administrators, pastoral caregivers—they often seek training

Growing up in Cuba, Juan Pablo Sanchez never saw the inside of a church . . . or the outside, for that matter.

How would you feel if your children only had access to dubbed translations of foreign videos?

Alexandra is a Christian from the Penza region of Russia, a little more than 700 km south of Moscow. In a letter to Rev.

Back in her student days at Calvin College, there was one on-campus job that appealed to Mary Hulst.

Georgia Roberts had been living with 10 of her children and four grandchildren in trailers and mobile homes since Hurricane Katrina destr

It only takes a spark to get a fire going.” Those words became all too real for me a number of years ago when I was clearing a smal

Because he was known as a hard worker and a devout Muslim, a young man got a good job herding cattle for wealthy families in his West Afr

The movie ended and this message rolled across the theater screen: Based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

February 1 was Super Bowl Sunday to many, but for Providence Christian Reformed Church in Holland, Mich., it was Souper Mission Sunday.

City Grace Church, an emerging Christian Reformed church in New York City’s Greenwich Village, was the location for the release of

Trinity Christian Reformed Church in Artesia, Calif., hosted more than 500 people at its Harvest Festival in January.

The sanctuary of Emmanuel Christian Reformed Church in Sauk Village, Ill., is enhanced by two glass windows and a baptismal bowl, both cr