The Banner

True, God shows no partiality or favoritism (Rom. 2:11; Eph. 6:9). But God does not erase our ethnic or racial differences either. We need to avoid two extremes.

I, as a Republican, was waiting for the reveal. I was waiting for facts to be presented, but despite a lot of confident bravado and self-assured talk, none came.

After reading your suggestion to ditch social media entirely, I see you have accounts on all the major platforms. What’s up with that?

The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), an ecumenical group to which the Christian Reformed Church of North America belongs, is calling its Communion members into what it calls a discernment process over the COVID-19 pandemic.

Community Christian Reformed Church in DeMotte, Ind., reopened its community preschool in 2019 and has since been recognized for providing quality early childhood education.

Leverne Tanis had a lifelong devotion to serving God and others. He died Jan. 10 at Bethany Home in Ripon, Calif.

Dr. Ray Vander Weele embarks on a voyage of discovery and celebrates life's joys, challenges, and unexpected turns in this memoir.

Two Netflix series examine obscure sports and odd competitions.

Wesley Granberg-Michaelson blends history, storytelling, biblical insights, personal reflections, and spiritual formation in an inviting call to discover pilgrimage as a way of life.

I frequently field questions about The Banner’s varying ways of writing about death, so here’s the scoop.

Like us, Abraham Kuyper watched a violent white supremacist insurrection in the United States. We can learn from Kuyper, but only if we heed his warnings without repeating his mistakes.

Without realizing it, Quésia had formed a new spiritual habit.

An album from Keith & Kristyn Getty (“In Christ Alone”) collects hymns and lullabies for the close of day.

How a little boy, future scientist, and Challenger astronaut desegregated his library through peaceful resistance.

Small-time football coach Ted Lasso is hired to coach a professional soccer team in England, despite having no experience coaching soccer.

Rev. Bobby Boyd, known for his compassionate pastoral care and his passion for evangelism, died Dec. 19, 2020.

Eventually, Kathy would decide it was time to go to bed. She’d walk over to the couch and say to Soren, “Let’s go say good night to Derek.”

Anger is a normal and at times necessary emotion; rage is a deadly sin.

When considering saving for retirement, how much is enough or too much? How much should we worry about retirement income in light of Jesus’ words “Do not worry about tomorrow”?

Melissa Fischer, an artist and prayer coordinator at Immanuel Church, a Christian Reformed congregation in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., has found a way to pray with her sketchbook, and she’s leading others to express how they see God this way too.

Before “At a Crossroads” was published last summer, the Christian Reformed Church’s resources for navigating a potential church closure were 20 years out of date. In this news feature The Banner looks at some of the realities, responses, and repercussions of disbanding a congregation.

The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a riveting and suspenseful courtroom drama.

Biblical perspectives and solutions to combat hustle and hurry.