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See some of our top picks for reading and watching for February 2024.

Here are a few highlights from the 2023 survey related to spiritual practices.

When busyness is worn as a badge of honor, the choice to seek rest can feel counterintuitive or even wasteful. Deep rest requires intentionality, self-compassion, and practice—lots of practice.

The Porter’s Gate has partnered with Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries to create an album of songs about mental health and faith.

As Dana, a young Black woman and aspiring writer, begins to settle in her new home, she finds herself being pulled back and forth in time, emerging at a 19th-century plantation and confronting secrets she never knew ran through her blood.

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

Movie buff LeMarr Jackson shares his picks for the five best films of 2023

As a 6-year-old, I depended on God and his angels to help me across the ice.

Frost is a unique and beautiful aspect of creation.

“What message would you have us take of this island?” I asked. The answer: “That slavery happened, and that it must never happen again.”

Our Lord and Savior was an ordinary guy who did ordinary work for most of his life.

More than 60 Christian Reformed ministry leaders, local church leaders, and members met virtually Jan. 27 to hear and discuss stories and strategies of church planting in Canada.

A pastor to fellow pastors, who was passionate about preaching, Archie Bazuin lived to 97 years. He died Jan. 12.

A pastor, seminary professor, and leader of prison ministry, David Schuringa, had a commitment to the Christian Reformed confessions and an impact beyond the denomination. He died Sept. 14, 2023, at age 70.

Convinced that the lives of ordinary Black people deserved to be documented, Roy DeCarava celebrated beauty through his photography, a process captured in this exquisite picture book.

Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes.

What if aging is something to aspire to, not to dread? What if together we could forge a radiant rebellion against the idea of aging as a season of decline?

If Jesus walked among us today, I know he would have a bench, or at least a retreat spot.

Christian leadership requires living out a life of service throughout the week, not just on Sundays.

Two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Esi Edugyan debuts her picture book, a whimsical story about friendship, curiosity and the magic of a vibrant community.

The English Ministry podcast features people who are from the Korean and Asian American immigrant church context (especially in the PCA) and gives voice to their stories.

From naming and renaming what eventually became the Christian Reformed Church in North America to the first publication dates of denominational periodicals, quite a number of memorable events in our denomination happened in February. Here are a few: