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When the United States celebrated the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, I was a young faculty member at Calvin College in Michigan, in my second year of full-time teaching. 

Consistent in its absence is any sense from the church that the gospel has anything to say to this moment in time and the myriad of other times people of color are mistreated simply because, well, they exist. 

What do you need to catch a fish? A fishing rod, bait, maybe a net. . . . But how...

Why do strained relationships so often develop between churches and pastors?

Is participating in the stock market a form of gambling?

The guidebook described the lakeside campground as one of the great family destinations in California if you don’t mind the drive.

The school shooting in Parkland, Fla., reminds us of the epidemic of gun violence in the United States. 

Thank you, thank you. I noticed “Punch Lines” is missing from the revamped Banner.

Though there may be a long road ahead, we can have hope in knowing that Christ gives us freedom. Because of Christ, we can be part of something outside of ourselves.

One word and she knew him.

As a faith-based journalistic ministry, our faith-shaped perspectives should influence all that we publish.

He validated his agnosticism by naming all the ways “the church” and “Christianity” had hurt people . . .

Every October our church has a Stewardship Sunday with a sermon about giving money to the church.

The weathered and white-haired Christian Reformed elder says to my father, “This is the true church!” 

The Christian Reformed Church needs an official position on gun culture.

The Cleveland and Akron churches will always remember the ministry of  Rev. Emmitt A. Harrison.

On March 6, 1957, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was in Accra. 

As a Reformed Christian, I believe everything is redeemable. But I’m starting to wonder about social media.

It’s spring, and that means there’s a lot of building going on.

A friend of mine in hospice care was obviously struggling when he mentioned the devil and the guilt he felt.

A red heart catches my eye.

Some people may wonder what we as Canadian members of the Christian Reformed Church have done that requires reconciliation with Indigenous people.

What if I make the wrong career choices?

On the day Billy Graham died and we remembered his life and message, high school kids in Florida were speaking out about gun control.