With the pandemic winding down, we need a few basic godly goals to help us serve.

Writer Charles C. Camosy echoes a call to courage for pro-life constituents to stand "clearly and firmly for prenatal justice regardless of the political consequences."

“An independent, nonprofit, and award-winning source of global news on religion, spirituality, culture, and ethics,” Religion News Service is a helpful way to keep Banner readers informed.

Nature has the power to draw us out of ourselves.

The real work in the church, just as in a family, is staying connected when things get hard, even if it gets painful.

My family and I are choosing to trust that the COVID-19 vaccine is a gift from God and the best way forward.

Giving gifts is a lifestyle to the Indigenous people of Canada.

We know who we are: the Imago Dei. But will that make us humble and free us from offense? Wouldn’t it give us something to be proud of instead?

What is interesting to me is that Jesus still had the wounds from his crucifixion. Why would Jesus keep these wounds?

Here are the past eight movie reviews we’ve run in The Banner, plus a note from me about my rationale for assigning, writing, or accepting a pitch for the review.

In light of Mother’s Day, let’s take stock of how women have changed the world.

“For the sake of future siblings and the comfort of your family, place George in an institution and forget you ever had him.”

Some think we have double standards or even some sort of reverse discrimination. The real reason, however, is a lot more innocuous.

I have discovered that in the land of the lonely, one has an immense wardrobe of masks. It makes me wonder what the true face underneath is.

Why have differing expectations recently caused friction in some churches?

By offering death as an option to those expected to die in the “reasonably foreseeable” future, Bill C-7, many disabled people fear, would provide an incentive for their mistreatment or even unwanted death.

Could any of us have guessed, when all this started, that we would still be facing the wrath of the Coronavirus a year later?

The more funds we can raise through advertising and donations, the less we need to rely on ministry shares.

A Christian concerned with social justice is often seen as a “bleeding heart,” for compassion is considered a soft thing compared to the “strong” virtues of fairness, obedience, or lawfulness.

Many Indigenous people across this continent use the spirit of the eagle in ceremonies and feel the eagle feather has special spiritual healing powers.

In the wake of such devastating news, we feel the need to present quick and simple solutions. However, when we do this, we avoid the necessary but painful process of grief.

Anti-Asian attacks have been skyrocketing at an alarming rate since the start of the pandemic. Yet there has been a gaping void of evangelical voices publicly speaking up to defend their Asian American brothers and sisters.

On that wintery day last year, my happy face not only showed a complete naivety of the soon-approaching pandemic, but also bore no knowledge of the tsunami of grief that would crash into my world.