The Banner

The hissing of the breathing machine was the only noise in the room.

For six years the "every household Banner" has been privileged to serve as our denominational kitchen table—a place wh

Calvin College will host the 24th annual Calvin Symposium on Worship Jan. 27-29, 2011.

Last fall a group from Calvin Theological Seminary visited the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La.

For Jack and Cindy Ippel, Christian Reformed World Missions partners in Hungary, pizza parties equal ministry opportunities.

More than 100 people in Nigeria walked 200 miles to celebrate peace in their communities.

When Manny and Blanca Ortiz and Randy and Sue Baker and their families moved to Philadelphia in 1987, there were no Christian Reformed

The darkest hour of Waiyee’s life came in March 2007, when she learned that her father had terminal colon cancer.

When I was 10 years old, I wanted a new bicycle. For a long time, I had had my eye on a Schwinn Corvette.

Several times a year Calvin College students, church members, business people, and others drag tires, soggy wood, and piles of garbage ou

The Board of Trustees of the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA) has formed a task force to study a range of environmen

Fertile soil, plentiful fuel, clean water—in the midst of such blessings it’s easy to overlook the crucial role our enviro

Historically, the church’s ministry of grounding new believers in the essentials of Christian faith has been known as catechesis

Long before the Christian Reformed Church had a Disability Concerns ministry, Willoughby CRC in Langley, British Columbia, was actively w

Three West Michigan high schools recently won state championship titles.

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“Bring your chainsaw” was the word that went out to members of Terrace (B.C.) Christian Reformed Church after an autumn wi

In most churches, “multimedia” means projectors, amplifiers, PowerPoint, and websites, not paintings.

The Bananer, the much-storied lampoon of The Banner, turned 40 this past year.

Congressman Vernon J. Ehlers retired in November after 17 years in the U.S. House of Representatives.

An interagency skirmish over how to spend the $8 million sent by Christian Reformed churches for Haiti reveals just how complicated it

The bulk of the $12 million collected by the Christian Reformed Church for Haiti is bankrolling simple wood houses in five small commu

“In Haiti, it never ends,” one relief worker I met recently in Haiti told me. He was right.