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Mental health has been on the minds of The Banner staff and its readers.

With three days, 100-plus people, and church members aged 2 to 90, First Christian Reformed Church in Oskaloosa, Iowa, launched a mission in Mahaska County to love their neighbors with action.

Members of the youth group from Immanuel Christian Reformed Church in Orange City, Iowa, traveled to the Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota this summer, helping to run a Vacation Bible School for about 65 kids.

An annual middle-school service project at a New Brighton, Minn., church multiplied its impact this summer as two other Christian Reformed congregations came on board.

Social activist Mya navigates her preteen world in this sparkling middle-grade novel. 

A charming movie about a British Pakistani teen and his love for Bruce Springsteen’s music.

A memoir of a broken CRC family and the Michigan land that binds them.

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.

“(It) forced me to reevaluate my life and realize that this was not the life that I wanted to live.”

A Christian Food Network host takes readers deep into her love of food.

The Chicago rapper’s second album is long and happy but fails to connect.

As a Christian at a public university, I am asked this question most often. People naturally assume they’re pretty good. The psychologically healthy have a humble recognition of the good in themselves.

Each individual has a unique genetic makeup, social history, and personality, and each teen will navigate this identity crisis in his or her own way.

A week after fires destroyed three unoccupied buildings and caused damage to the current church sanctuary of Naschitti (N.M.) Christian Reformed Church, the council still faces unanswered questions.

The celebration of Hope College’s Sesquicentennial examines its resilience.

At 69, Bruce Springsteen still has much to say. 

The message of God’s good creation of each child underscores this anti-bullying picture book.

Several Christian Reformed congregations have been finding support through conflict by following The Colossian Way, a practice designed to help participants grow spiritually while engaging difficult problems.

Dwayne Thielke, pastor and longtime missionary in the Philippines, died July 27 following three months in the hospital for complications of heart bypass surgery. 

As I looked into the inner abyss of my soul, I saw an unfree self, chained together with an old friend, the pleaser identity.

정죄는 자신의 잘못은 가볍게 여기면서 타인의 잘못은 비판하여 도덕적 우월감을 조성하는 것입니다. 

젊은이들이 그들의 인생과 소명을 준비하는 데에 광범위하면서도 집중적인 교육이 필요합니다.