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Picture book for children 4-8 encourages readers to find beauty in imperfections and strength in adversity.

A progressive rock album explores the Apostle Paul’s conversion.

We can hardly say this season’s greeting without first cracking a smile and knowing in our hearts that we are sharing in a joy that is beyond us and yet inside of us.

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Too often we confuse God’s calling for our lives with a paid vocation.

Family tensions meet slapstick humor in a movie starring Robert De Niro as “Grandpa.”

“She did what she could” (Mark 14:8)—and that is the goal of this book: to provide insights and wisdom for walking through life with the confidence that you’re doing “what you can” to live well for God.

Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, one of 2020’s most acclaimed novels.

Last week the Christian Reformed Church's Canadian Ministries director, Darren Roorda, and restructuring consultant, Chris Bosch, hosted online town hall sessions to share a current draft of Canadian ministry priorities and offer clarification on the restructuring process.

Pastor, writer, and founder of Mission India, John De Vries died Oct. 25.

Is it permissible to watch movies as worship?

The report of the Christian Reformed Church's Committee to Articulate a Foundation-Laying Biblical Theology of Human Sexuality affirms the denomination’s historical position on homosexuality and offers scriptural and pastoral guidance on a range of sexual matters.

A task force studying bivocationality—pastors holding two jobs—within the Christian Reformed Church has released its report. It recommends changes to Church Order and greater support for this growing sector of pastors.

A denominational task force appointed by Synod 2019 to consider whether Christians may marry “in the eyes of the church but not in the eyes of the state” recommends against it.

The selected candidates formed a planning team representing the geographic spread of the CRC across North America.

A documentary of how White House photographer Pete Souza captured the Reagan and the Obama presidencies through his insightful lens.

A masterful work of comic book journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world.

Sitting under a cloudless sky with an afternoon sun baking my skull and turning my balding head bright red didn’t sound like anything I wanted to do.

The Banner’s Mixed Media editor chooses the seven books that most encouraged and enlightened her faith journey in 2020.

I had laid the foundation as soon as the frost was out of the ground and was framing the walls when Gloria was diagnosed with signet cell carcinoma, an aggressive appendix cancer.

The word ‘meme’ itself was coined in 1976.

A young pop singer details why she rejects progressive Christianity in favor of historic Christianity.

With a blend of electro-pop, ballads, and spoken word, the Fearless BND stirs courage in its listeners.