The Banner

CeCe Winans won two Dove Awards at the 2022 ceremony, including making history as the first Black female soloist to win Artist of the Year.

Lloyd Wolters’s heart for sharing the gospel was infused into his every interaction. “Spreading the gospel was his life,” said one of his daughters. He died Oct.7 at age 92.

Bethel CRC in Sioux Center, Iowa, celebrated 100 years of ministry in 2022, “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Phil. 1:6)

A young chef from the fine dining world comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop after a heartbreaking death in his family.

Traci Rhoades encourages readers to explore practices—some ancient and others unconventional—that offer solace for those times when “the bottom drops out.”

With engaging rhyme and lovely illustrations, this picture book sparks readers’ imaginations with the idea that God created human beings to make, model, and work like him.

At an Oct. 28 meeting Calvin University’s board of trustees determined to “retain faculty members who expressed disagreement with part of the CRCNA position on human sexuality that was formalized by the CRC’s Synod 2022.”

Authors of Our Journey 2025 identified four specific goals toward which they believed God was calling the CRCNA to strive.

For over a century in Turkana, Kenya, young men have been raiding their neighbors’ cattle.

A Syrian refugee struggles to settle into his new Canadian small-town life, caught between his dream to become a doctor and preserving his family's chocolate-making legacy.

Prog Rock outfit Glass Hammer returns with their third album in the Skallagrim trilogy, based on the writings of fantasy writers such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien.

From a children’s nonfiction book about wolves in Yellowstone to the memoir of a Frenchman who’s a former atheist, here’s a list of 12 books for every age and taste.

Aunt Dorothy loved me. There was no doubt about that.

The need to love and nurture children who are living away from their biological parents is immense and urgent.

Dios estaba más preocupado por el orgullo que por cualquier pecado sexual.

This question usually arises when we consider using undesirable actions or approaches to work toward noble or legitimate ends.

Wiebe Boer, the university’s 12th president, is the son of Christian Reformed Church missionaries and spent 30 years living in Nigeria.

The seventh-annual theology conference of the Center for Pastor Theologians included speakers Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Russell Moore, Walter Kim, and Karen Swallow Prior.

Six pastors from the U.S. and Canada visited Michigan last week, completing the in-person part of their seven-month Korean Institute in Ministry training, a pathway to ministry in the CRC for pastors trained in other denominations.

Monroe Community Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., was named most outstanding venue for the city’s 2022 ArtPrize festival, and the architect behind the church’s ministry center renovation was recognized by the American Institute of Architects.

Every week hundreds of people shuffle past this quiet image, which captures everything essential the church wants to communicate.

The story of Joey Moss, a man with Down Syndrome who was handpicked by Wayne Gretzky to work in the Edmonton Oilers’ equipment room and became a fixture to fans.

The true story of Father Stuart Long’s journey from pugilist to priest.