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A concise and customizable guide for the Advent season to help you contemplate the sacred gift we celebrate in the Christmas season.

A gripping documentary chronicles the story of The Central Park Five, five youths who were unjustly imprisoned for a rape they did not commit.

A journey in exploring time-tested values and practices for pursuing wholeness in mind, body, and soul.

Worthington (Minn.) Christian Reformed Church is working through an Advent sermon series “From Wrecked to Redeemed” and staying connected with distributed kits containing 20 daily readings.

A mission-focused conference started in 2019 moved online in 2020 to continue building “missional DNA at the local church level.”

Christian and Muslim leaders have stepped up interfaith dialogue in hopes of reining in the bus attacks and other threats to the border region’s small Christian community.

We are not alone in our fears. Nor in our loss and grief. The storm of 2020 has rewritten the course of life for countless others around the world.

An extra session of the Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates was convened Dec. 7. Closed to everyone but delegates, it was prompted after the Council’s executive committee reviewed additional legal advice regarding restructuring of the CRC’s governance structure.

Ken Slager, a man of integrity who loved the Lord and the Christian Reformed Church, died Nov. 18 at the age of 95.

A cast of acclaimed actors, including headliner Bill Murray, and participants from Knox County, Ohio, aim to spark meaningful conversation by performing the Book of Job to an audience on Zoom.

Seekers and believers are able to have conversations about life’s most pressing issues and work together to explore answers to questions.

Imagine what the church would look like if we were able to put aside our political and theological differences and instead develop a common language based on our shared identity in Christ.

15-year-old Peyton retraces a journey his father took at 15, riding his bicycle from St. Augustine, Florida, all the way to Key West in this 1940’s era coming of age novel.

For King & Country’s long-awaited full-length Christmas album

Communication expert Quentin Schultze offers a practical, accessible, and inspiring guide to public speaking.

Lansing (Mich.) Christian School won its first state championship in girls cross-country in November.

Sioux Falls (S.D.) Christian School’s boys cross country team won their second consecutive South Dakota Class A State Championship this October.

A Christian Reformed historian’s controversial and influential book reveals the ties between white evangelicalism and militant masculinity.

See how readers responded to recent Banner issues, articles, and columns.

If Paul affirms unmarried life, why doesn’t the modern church?

“When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious,

The Netflix sensation about an orphaned chess prodigy on her rise to becoming the world's greatest chess player while struggling with drug and alcohol dependency.

A riveting debut novel about a family escaping Czechoslovakia after the 1948 Communist takeover—based on the author's own family history.