Lester De Koster, who served as editor of The Banner for 10 years as well as being a long-time librarian at Calvin College and
Depression, sometimes called “the common cold of mental illness” because of its prevalence, is as serious a problem as it is
From Hope Christian Reformed Church in Stony Plain, Alberta, to Rev.
A preacher prepared for the Sunday-morning worship service, but only one person, a farmer, showed up.
Across North America, congregations and other religious organizations are facing the same belt-tightening challenges as everyone else.
“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
Last year Rev.
Light for a Dark Path
People who live with mental illness are all around us. Yet they often suffer alone.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.
A Second Blessing
Into Christ, with water, by the Holy Spirit—just how many baptisms are there in a believer’s life?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