As a growing boy I was good at playing marbles in our Detroit neighborhood.

BULLYING: the word evokes memories in almost everyone who hears it.

The tuned in editor gave me a mission: read an electronic book and report back.

Did you ever find money on the sidewalk? Pretty exciting, isn’t it?

Formerly “Q&A,” this column is devoted to answering a broad range of questions relating to Christian faith and life.

A friend, recently and tragically bereaved, wrote me of the tears that came upon her during a chapel service at her daughter’s scho

Synod 2006 and Women

Sometimes when I’m sitting at my computer, my 3-year-old daughter, Mary, climbs onto my lap.

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Your July Banner came late so we could catch you up on the latest news from Synod 2006, the Christian Reformed Church’s annual lead

fiction

The Illuminator

by Brenda Rickman Vantrease

At that point in American cultural history when kids turned from swing sets to computers and from camping to video-game marathons, the C

Emerging Church

Thank you, Mark Brouwer, for your thoughtful and enlightening article “The Emerging Church” (June

Would you like to see something really neat? Then check out a honeybee’s knees.

Almost before debate gets started, calls for the question arise from the floor.

A husband and wife walk into a dentist’s office. The man tells the dentist, “Doctor, I’m in a big hurry.

Some delegates to synod (the annual meeting of the Christian Reformed Church) feel the need to speak to every issue.

My husband was to fly in that night. No problem. I’d gladly meet him after a week’s separation.

Most people are interested in their origins. Some who are adopted will go to great lengths to discover the identity of their parents.

You don’t feel dizzy. You don’t see a line moving. Yet the earth moves in several ways.

Gardening

The Fragrance of God

by Vigen Guroian

[From the February 2004 Banner.]

Our church studied the main faith issues in The Da Vinci Code for two Sundays.