Don’t miss this week’s must-read articles:
The Banner is calling all artists with original music or poetry/spoken word art to share. Send us your videos! We’re hosting a video open mic, where artists can send a link or a video file to our judges for review.
An illuminating photo-journalism book documents the dignity of those on the margins.
Taylor Swift’s seventh album shifts gears from hate to love.
A pastor who sought to emphasize Jesus’ command to love one another, Jim Mantel died Aug. 16.
The author of Genesis had no intention of giving us a 21st-century, scientifically precise account of how God created all things.
Whatever it looks like and however it is made, bread is a part of many celebrations and everyday meals all around the world.
In a culture drowning in conflict, there is simply nothing more beautiful, needful, or relevant than the reconciling power of the gospel and a people willing to live in light of it.
Mark Charles, speaker and author with Navajo and American-Dutch lineage with a history in the Christian Reformed Church, is running an independent campaign for the U.S. presidency, desiring to build a nation where “‘We the people’ truly means all the people.”
Dordt University’s two Pro-Tech programs offer students a different way to train for careers in agriculture and manufacturing.
What the horror genre has to teach us about good and evil.
A beautifully narrated middle-grade novel highlights the dignity of India’s street children.
I recall the days when “Grape Road” was lined with cornfields and farmsteads. Now it’s a continuous three-mile strip of commercialism.
I await the day when my grandchildren see the stone at our home and ask me, “Why did your Trinity colleagues send you off with that verse?”
In making the visit, she saw how volunteers such as these in the village of Akokma are making progress possible even after an official program has ended.
Netherlands-based, worldbeat band Trinity stubbornly holds onto their God-story.
A well-known memoirist takes a DNA test and makes an earth-shattering discovery.
Mental health has been on the minds of The Banner staff and its readers.
Elizabeth felt excluded; everyone else had received those blessing words. She wondered if other persons with disabilities had similar experiences.
We tell ourselves that we’re not playing for the money, and this might be true for a friendly game of no-stakes poker, but lotteries are always about the money, aren’t they?
While his statement is not true of all Christian communities, his more than 20-year experience in his particular mega church circle is that people avoid these complicated topics.
A memoir of a broken CRC family and the Michigan land that binds them.
A charming movie about a British Pakistani teen and his love for Bruce Springsteen’s music.
Social activist Mya navigates her preteen world in this sparkling middle-grade novel.
