The Banner

Scottish reggae album invites listeners outside the American music bubble.

A debut from Melinda Gates, a timely and necessary call to action for women's empowerment.

When we got the news that our adoption was annulled and I had been labeled a five-year hazard, I believed the entire year had been a waste, and I was the one who had wasted it. I believed this knowing what I know as a Christian in my head.

It takes a delicate balance to identify what helps children to worship and what disrupts worship.

“Righteousness” is another word for “justice,” which can be understood to mean something like “treating each person, thing, or situation rightly or correctly.”

Check out the original music and poetry submitted by readers of The Banner.

At Wild Wonder in Willoughby Christian Reformed Church in Langley, B.C., children saw how God cares for his creation and learned how they are able to take care of it, too.

Youth and leaders from Bellevue CRC spent a weekend in July engaging with different ministries in and around the campus of the University of Washington and the CRC church plant Church on the Ave.

Based on true events in the lives of the author’s grandmother and aunt, this stirring children’s picture book shares the plight of immigrants and refugees in the early 1900s.

Bouncy, soulful pop energizes rock-solid theology for challenging times.

Read by the author, the audiobook of a bestselling book delivers a warm listening experience.

My work has restored and strengthened my Christian faith. It has expanded my worldview and ignited my life with passion and purpose.

Broad as well as focused learning is required as young people prepare for their lives and callings.

A teenage Spiderman navigates a world where he is the chosen superhero successor. 

Canadian pride distilled into a 34-minute audiobook.

There’s nothing very remarkable about Sigsbee Street. It runs for just seven blocks through the near southeast side of Grand Rapids, Mich. Sigsbee School, an elementary school in the Grand Rapids Public School system, is its most notable feature. 

As a Reformed Christian, I believe God cares deeply about how we steward the Earth as faithful people of God.

It is not God’s wrath or judgment that leads to repentance, but rather God’s kindness. How many people have ever changed for the better through experiencing other people’s judgment?

The newly re-formed Newsboys deliver a powerhouse pop album.

A picture book sensitively introduces young children to the reality being played out in the lives of millions of refugees.

A genre-bending novel that mixes elements of Madeleine L’engle’s sci-fi with Frank Peretti’s spiritual warfare fiction. 

The Christan Reformed Church released a statement Aug. 8, grieving the loss of life in recent shootings and calling members to “take an active stance against false narratives” and “stand up against racism and acts of white supremacy.”

We live in a spiritual warfare that has become intricately complicated and multi-layered. But the essence of this warfare, the main battlefield, is still about truth versus falsehood.