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.

Do we choose God or does God choose us? Admittedly, there are Bible passages to support both.

While our national discourse rightfully condemns Islamophobia and antisemitism, the systematic persecution of Christians around the world receives only a fraction of our collective outrage.

Whatever it is you want to do someday—whatever it is, go home and do it today.

Little did we fathom that our new bundle of feline joy came bearing surprises.

Uniquely You, by bestselling authors Sally Clarkson and her son, Nathan Clarkson, is filled with biblical and life-learned wisdom for helping kids become and enjoy being the person God designed them to be.

Small Things Like These is an artful Irish movie about large matters.

Jesus told us how to handle our differences, and it’s not chaotic or complicated.

Pricelis Perreaux-Dominguez, who has experienced abuse, trauma, and racism within the church, examines the state of the church and offers us a hopeful path forward.

A dying woman, her cat, and an anxiety-ridden man go on a journey after an alien invasion.

In 1948, scandal-plagued Hollywood star Mercy Windsor seeks refuge in the Colorado mining town where her childhood pen pal lived.

The Mixed Media editor picks four worthy reads to enrich Black History Month, from a propulsive multigenerational saga to a faith-based novel based on real-life events during Reconstruction.

Eighty years ago, as a little boy, I experienced the sadness and the sin of a church split.

If Christianity is all about always having the right or correct answers, why does Jesus regularly teach in such a convoluted way?