September 2006
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Features
Are We Wrong About Racism?
Expanding our understandingREAD MOREI believe Satan has done a superb job of deceiving many well-meaning Christians, even Christian leaders.
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Make no mistake, what we believe about the Bible is important—not as important as believing what is in it, but still crucial to our
Correcting a Structural Heresy
Ministers aren’t supposed to be the only ones providing pastoral care.READ MORE“When I’m sick, especially on my death bed, I want my minister, not the elder, to visit and pray with me,” said my moth
News
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With a two-dollar coin from her pastor, 10-year-old Shelby Van Roon decided to try earning enough money to buy a goat for a family in Afr
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For 25 years women from three Denver-area Christian Reformed churches have stitched together clothing for people who need it and fun for
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Wesley Heersink isn’t well-known in Christian Reformed Church circles, but his fight for justice may leave a legacy.
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CALLS ACCEPTED
Candidate Rob Toornstra to Sunnyslope Christian Reformed Church, Salem, Or
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Meadowvale Community Christian Reformed Church joined Canada’s first-ever National Hunger Awareness Day by hosting Hoops for Hunger
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After spending $750,000 in worship grants, recipients gathered in late June to share their experiences.
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When the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee helps people in East Africa, it doesn’t just hand over cash.
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Solving the problem of poverty in America requires the cooperation of leaders and activists from across the theological and political spe
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Legacy Fund, Year 1 and 2
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Roman Catholic doctors and researchers involved in stem cell research are unfit to receive Communion, declared Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Tru
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Diane Prol, a member of Trinity Christian Reformed Church, Richfield Springs, N.Y., was one of just thousands who experienced flooding wh
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Rev.
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Wendy Groen, 84, has spent hundreds of hours on her needlework art.
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Imagine rap lyrics without the F-word. Or acid rock lyrics without sex. Or reggae lyrics without drugs.
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Anita Paget, who was once a single parent herself, wanted to do something to help others transition through the difficult time of separat
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For 23 Korean pastors from California, an orientation to the Christian Reformed Church included a church-basement feast of turkey sandwic
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A year after the cross-Canada bicycle tour, its legacy lives on in the joyful stories of cyclists and in the growth of the church that sp
Columns
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The news report on my car radio announced that the towers had fallen and that there was further mayhem at the Pentagon.
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His eyes open each morning
to the same lines, the same dots
in the ceiling.
The same fluorescent lights.
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I am a patient at the Christian Rest Home. Back spasms and polymyalgia interfered with my independent living.
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NO, THE BANNER is not going to the dogs. Just this page.
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Formerly “Q&A,” this column is devoted to answering a broad range of questions
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A No. 2 pencil can write approximately 45,000 words. That’s a lot of writing.
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Joking apart, my wife, Margo, and I have accepted a call extended by West End Christian Reformed Church in Edmonton, Alberta.
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Instead of the usual “In My Humble Opinion” column on this page, you'll find many voices speaking in reaction to Synod 2
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A collector of rare books ran into an acquaintance who told him he’d just thrown away a worn Bible he’d found in a dusty, old
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There are two kinds of people whose weddings, newborns, and other life milestones you’re familiar with down to the tiniest detail:
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An article in the January 2006 Banner titled “Going to the Extreme” carried interviews with several people who engage in high
Our Shared Ministry
Bringing Back the Good Life
New book helps Christians make environmentally friendly choicesREAD MOREThe editor of a new book about environmental stewardship doesn’t just talk the talk.
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It was a powerful mo-ment,” Corrie Mulder said.
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I have heard it said that the uglier the caterpillar, the more beautiful the butterfly.
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In Greg Janke’s old office at Bauer Christian Reformed Church, there was a folder that contained material for hundreds of sermons.
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Five years ago a group of terrorists hijacked commercial airplanes and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a Penn
Introducing Asteroids
“Spoelhof” and “Griffioen”READ MOREAsteroids discovered by students and professors at Calvin College now bear the names of two beloved Calvin retirees: former president Dr.
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A hero is a person noted for special achievements and noble qualities. Gilma Bucardo is one of my heroes.
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A once-struggling Christian Reformed ministry that works with Southeast Asian people in Minnesota is moving forward again with a new visi
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As campus chaplains at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in Prince George, B.C., Neil and Virginia Lettinga host a regul
