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In my work facilitating support groups and assisting in workshops, I have seen the difficulties of caring for a person living with dementia.

Dichos hechos son sólo unos cuantos de una larga lista de males sociales, conflictos y retos enfrentados por el pueblo de Dios durante estos últimos años.

It can be hard not to know what one ought to do. It feels as if it would be easier if God let us know directly what we ought to do next! But that is not how God usually works.

Sanctuary Christian Reformed Church in Seattle, Wash., Platte (S.D.) CRC, and Westwood CRC in Kalamazoo, Mich., each have received a 2021 Lilly Endowment National Clergy Renewal Program grant to fund their pastor’s rest and renewal programs next year. 

First Christian Reformed Church of Waupun, Wisc., celebrated its centennial anniversary Aug. 14 and 15, 2021.

After 15 years, Mark Stephenson, is retiring as the director of the Christian Reformed Church’s Disability Concerns ministry. Lindsay Wieland Capel begins as the new director Nov. 15.

This essential authorized biography of Eugene Peterson offers unique insights into the experiences and spiritual convictions of the iconic American pastor and beloved translator of The Message.

The son of a nobleman could be the chosen one on a distant planet.

A masterfully told story of a boy and his mother whose road trip is thwarted at the border when they identify their citizenship as Blackfoot.

For many of my Christian friends, peers, and colleagues, “vocation” and “calling” have become hollow words, a varnish smeared over mundane jobs.

With newly published books, podcasts, and a growing annual conference, a group of Christians who identify as LGBTQ and hold to a traditional, biblical sexual ethic is developing.

The site offers preaching connections, sermon commentary, and Spanish content.

Two Canadian shows and two American shows streaming on Hulu.

A fresh collection of 12 rootsy and melodic originals from Carolyn Arends, the Canadian artist often called “a songwriter's songwriter.”

Check out our reviews for the books, movies, and music to enjoy this month.

Our sisters and brothers aren’t often dying because of what we have personally done, but because of what we continually leave undone.

See how readers responded to recent Banner issues, articles, and columns.

The electricity has to come from somewhere, and power plants emit carbon. Am I really being a better steward buying an electric vehicle than an efficient gas-powered vehicle?

From welcoming examined candidates into ministry to taking action on requests to synod and other matters, here is the report of Christian Reformed classis meetings of the past several months.

When BJ Magley, cofounder of Heroes Camp in Mishawaka, Ind., was looking for a partner in a mentoring program for girls, she approached Church of the Savior CRC in South Bend, Ind.

With a website launched in September, a team of 15 Christian Reformed pastors, scholars, and leaders want to see the CRC uphold “the historic, beautiful, biblical understanding of human sexuality in doctrine, discipleship, and discipline.”

The debate over various women’s rights in the Christian Reformed Church has been ongoing for over a century.

A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters with gun violence.