I’m not sure what I ought to be doing next. Why does deciding this feel so hard?
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Take a look at the clever and funny ways these animals stay cool in the summer.
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My hope is that the church will hold onto what is good, true, and beautiful while calling out what is base, false, and ugly.
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Imagining all the social media “likes” the image will get fuels my drive to share why that sign and sentiments like it continue to marginalize my son.
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I think this “three-legged stool” of home, church, and school is now cracked and wobbly because we are neglecting discipleship and instruction as a result of our preference for absorbing the world’s culture rather than transforming it.
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See how readers responded to recent Banner issues, articles, and columns.
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I sometimes find myself scrolling mindlessly through my social media accounts. I think that’s a problem. Would you agree?
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In light of Mother’s Day, let’s take stock of how women have changed the world.
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Our beliefs might change because of changes in knowledge and understanding in the world around us.
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When through our words we reduce a person made in God’s image into an object of derision in our minds and hearts, we have made them less human.
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Discipleship is not merely about endorsing a set of propositions or confessional statements.
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One of the things God designed trees to do is to affect the ground in different ways.
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“For the sake of future siblings and the comfort of your family, place George in an institution and forget you ever had him.”
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우리의 말을 통해서 우리가 하나님의 형상으로 창조된 사람들을 축소시키고 우리 마음 속에서 조롱의 대상으로 삼을 때, 우리는 그들을 사람보다 못한 존재로 만드는 것입니다
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After 54 years of zestful living, the remainder of my brother’s life was now defined by this sentence.
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U.S. law generally allows for the ownership of firearms for purposes of self-defense (much less so in Canada). Whether we as Christians should exercise that right is a harder question.
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Taking up my cross means accepting all the pain and injustice and misery life imposes on me as I attempt to be a faithful follower of Jesus.
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Some think we have double standards or even some sort of reverse discrimination. The real reason, however, is a lot more innocuous.
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Even for us today, the darkness of Christ crucified remains mystifying. In the cross, God no longer makes sense to us.
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When my adoptive mother died, the process of mourning was short. In fact, half of the family, including me, didn’t even go to the lunch after the burial.
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God is not indifferent or uncaring, but perhaps his silence is there for a reason. Wilderness moments are important spaces that force us to shift our understanding of God and make us more conscious of him.
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My siblings and I can’t seem to agree on end-of-life decisions for our parents, and they do not have a living will. How do we find consensus, if not agreement?
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I have discovered that in the land of the lonely, one has an immense wardrobe of masks. It makes me wonder what the true face underneath is.
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In a sense, I had embraced All Lives Matter as a movement many years ago.