An authentic person says, “This is who I am. Accept or reject me, but don’t expect me to change for you.” If this is what we mean, we are in for trouble.

In the phrase “Dutch Christian Reformed,” Dad insisted the overwhelming focus had to be on “Christian.” That lesson confronts us today.

As attractively merciful as this belief might sound, it does not fit with the biblical testimony or the universal church or the basic doctrines of God.

One Sunday morning, a pastor steps up to his pulpit and—amid the swirling chaos of a country divided and mourning

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Mark Silk, a contributing editor to Religion News Service, describes a change in American public discourse over the last 40 years and a return of what he calls "classic Christian opposition to Judaism."

How do you start again after all you threw yourself into crumbles before you, when everything you’ve worked for turns to ash?

There are two great stories that have shaped my life. The first is the story of Dutch Calvinism. The second is the story of World War II.

We must find an intentional plan for practicing and living out our faith.

My experience tells me that supersizing is not the likeliest route to good health, physically or spiritually.

Anyone with a middle school understanding of biology knows that, if these cardiologists get their way, the human beings from whom we would be taking organs are not, in fact, dead.

I’ve learned a lot being here, but it’s been a tense time to live in D.C.

Justice is a critical concept for Christians because it is important to God. Yet the Bible has a way of shattering all our notions of justice.

We have a choice: to surrender to outrage and conspiracy, or recommit to our first freedoms—a sacred democratic commitment to one another.

The temptation to use AI as a friend, therapist, and even romantic partner has been widely reported. What about AI-powered introspection?

How can we learn to control our appetites (which are natural and originally good, and yet bad when they’re out of control) so that we don’t end up defined and dominated by them?

No country in the world has gone as far as Canada in enabling people to die if they want to.

The help I once thought was readily and unreservedly available is not. And some of those I once thought were willing to provide whatever was necessary in order to preserve precious human life have proved not to be so willing.

Many of us live lives that feel exhaustingly fast paced, running constantly but never really feeling caught up. How might we deal with that?

Especially toward guests, kèqì is an overwhelming, welcoming force.

Isolation has crept in slowly—first through busyness, then through screens, and now through habits we don’t even question. It’s not just sad—it’s spiritually dangerous.

Much of the Christian Reformed Church’s mandate to The Banner, established in 2015, hasn’t changed, but here’s what has and what you can expect to read and not to read because of that.

We need not a new approach, but a return to the ordinary tools by which Christ has always formed his people.