As part of our commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, The Banner asked Ronald J.

Swelling with pride, a mother was all too glad to tell me recently how well her daughter is faring in her graduate studies at a prestigio

My son doesn’t go to church anymore because he thinks God is a myth.”

Oil

“Fill the earth and subdue it”
(Gen. 1:28).

I wonder how many readers were surprised by Time magazine’s recent cover story “10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now”

Emily, a former student of mine, had endured a semester’s worth of ridicule and abuse from her grad school professors and fellow st

Even as a resurgence of atheism fascinates the mass media, a new theological engagement with public life is taking shape.

A speaker once asked his audience to raise their hands high above their heads. Everyone complied.

This year’s Multiethnic Conference participants met with the theme “Embracing the Discomfort of Diversity,” and attende

A former student wrote to me recently:

Q. What do you believe concerning the ‘holy catholic church’?

Last week I unintentionally drove past Edmonton’s dump.

How do you picture God when you pray to him?

I remember being asked that question many years ago in a small group.

In these pages you will find the annual presentation of candidates for ministry in the Christian Reformed Church.

Last July 4 weekend I came across the following church announcement:

If I had to choose only two concepts from John Calvin’s vast theology to teach my spiritual heirs, I’d choose piety and relig

As I lie awake each night in Iraq, I ache with homesickness for the abundant water, the evergreen trees, the peaceable mountains, the lus

Recently The Banner asked Rev. Ken Baker and Rev.

“He who knows his own sin is greater than the angels,” said seventh-century Isaac of Nineveh. John Calvin would agree.

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

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

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

I live in the South—a simple place with smiling folks who Hodding Carter described as “polite right up to the point they get