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The Banner publishes hundreds of columns, reviews, and news stories and dozens of features, editorials, and opinion pieces in the course of a year. Here are the top 5 most-accessed articles online in each category from 2025.

Noted biblical scholar, theologian, and author Esau McCaulley has written a beautiful storybook Bible honoring God’s diverse family.

Novelist Jane Austen was born 250 years ago, on Dec. 16, 1775. Celebrate Austen’s incredible legacy of wit and wisdom with these recommendations.

Keep Jesus in the center of your family's Christmas and Advent celebrations with this beautiful nativity storybook from beloved Bible scholar N.T. Wright.

A denomination-wide conference on discipleship and leadership development in the Christian Reformed Church hopes to build momentum for the denomination’s church planting vision.

A Christian Reformed church leader from Highland, Ind., serving with a disability ministry in Kijabe, Kenya, believes she was led by the Spirit to bless one young man in particular.

After two years of little celebration due to the Israel-Hamas war, holiday festivities are slowly coming back to the Holy Land. But tourism remains limited.

Thrive’s resource series, Ten Ways, has a new look—and is now available in Spanish and Korean.

Sisters in Ukraine are separated by war in this searing, realistic fiction novel for middle-grade readers.

Why, despite all we know of the negative effects of social media, do so many of us continue to use it and allow our children and grandkids to use it?

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We cannot make God any greater than he is, but we can perceive him as greater in our lives.

The Christian Reformed Church in North America is pursuing “a vision, plan, strategy, and financial proposal for church planting

Neurosurgeon Maggie Sullivan, reconnects with her small-town past after a scandal causes her to leave her professional and personal life behind in the city.

This book follows Kaylee and her grandfather as they read the morning newspaper. While reading, they look for ways to pray for the children of the world.

In this practical book, Whitney R. Simpson offers carefully crafted guided prayers that provide an accessible way for us to quiet our hearts and enter into God’s presence.

Dying at almost 93 years old, Rev. Jungkyu Park had lived a life of missionary service in Japan and to the Japanese diaspora.

A pastor and seminary administrator who served the Christian Reformed Church for more than 40 years, Bill Van Dyk is remembered as an excellent preacher and respected academic.

Christian Reformed Church general secretary Zachary King said he hoped the formalized close relationship would be a mutual blessing and encouragement.

Perhaps the first dually affiliated Christian Reformed and Alliance of Reformed churches congregation, Harrison (S.D.) Community Church is appreciating the benefits of being connected to both.

Though he addressed large crowds from time to time, the vast majority of Jesus’ ministry was spent privately teaching a small group of disciples.

Walt Whitman is celebrated as an iconic American poet, but few know of the role he played tending to the wounded in Civil War hospitals. This nonfiction picture book highlights Whitman’s compassion and teaches about empathy.