January 2011
Even though there are often pieces online that don't appear in print, some people like to make sure they read--or can read again--articles from a specific issue. Use this page to make sure you don't miss a feature, the news, a column, or an Our Shared Ministry article from this issue. Use the search function at the top to find something specific going back to 2005 but if you want to find something older, The Banner archives are maintained at Calvin College's Hekman Library.
Features
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Imagine that you’ve been invited to the home of new friends.
Surrender the Queen
Reconsidering the role of Sunday-morning worshipREAD MOREI am an exceptionally bad chess player. I’m told I rush too quickly to bring out the queen.
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Jews and Christians have long recognized the words recorded in both Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 as the heart of the Old Testament&rsqu
Yield to the King
Reconsidering the role of Sunday-morning worshipREAD MOREDirk, thanks so much for your good thoughts and gutsy gospel endeavor to plant a new church.
Your Kingdom Come
Living out God's love for diversityREAD MOREA group of animals gathers at a water hole: A lion drinks next to a zebra. An ostrich runs alongside a lioness.
News
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“In Haiti, it never ends,” one relief worker I met recently in Haiti told me. He was right.
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Long before the Christian Reformed Church had a Disability Concerns ministry, Willoughby CRC in Langley, British Columbia, was actively w
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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
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An interagency skirmish over how to spend the $8 million sent by Christian Reformed churches for Haiti reveals just how complicated it
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The bulk of the $12 million collected by the Christian Reformed Church for Haiti is bankrolling simple wood houses in five small commu
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1926-2010
Rev.
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In most churches, “multimedia” means projectors, amplifiers, PowerPoint, and websites, not paintings.
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Congressman Vernon J. Ehlers retired in November after 17 years in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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The Bananer, the much-storied lampoon of The Banner, turned 40 this past year.
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Three West Michigan high schools recently won state championship titles.
Our Shared Ministry
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For Jack and Cindy Ippel, Christian Reformed World Missions partners in Hungary, pizza parties equal ministry opportunities.
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Calvin College will host the 24th annual Calvin Symposium on Worship Jan. 27-29, 2011.
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Fertile soil, plentiful fuel, clean water—in the midst of such blessings it’s easy to overlook the crucial role our enviro
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Several times a year Calvin College students, church members, business people, and others drag tires, soggy wood, and piles of garbage ou
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When Manny and Blanca Ortiz and Randy and Sue Baker and their families moved to Philadelphia in 1987, there were no Christian Reformed
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The Board of Trustees of the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA) has formed a task force to study a range of environmen
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The darkest hour of Waiyee’s life came in March 2007, when she learned that her father had terminal colon cancer.
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When I was 10 years old, I wanted a new bicycle. For a long time, I had had my eye on a Schwinn Corvette.
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Last fall a group from Calvin Theological Seminary visited the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La.
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More than 100 people in Nigeria walked 200 miles to celebrate peace in their communities.
Columns
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God gave you some pretty wonderful senses.
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Mission
Q I’d like to give my time and money to organizations in my community.
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Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will
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A Modest Proposal
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An elderly man rushed into the doctor’s office and shouted, “Doctor! I think I’m shrinking!!”
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I am a convert to social justice. For a long time I found it easy to make excuses not to help the poor.
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It’s scary how easily the media swing our attention away from what really matters to what really doesn’t.
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Historically, the church’s ministry of grounding new believers in the essentials of Christian faith has been known as catechesis
