June 2009
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Features
Bright Hope for Tomorrow
Eavesdropping on today’s young church leadersREAD MORERecently The Banner asked Rev. Ken Baker and Rev.
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If I had to choose only two concepts from John Calvin’s vast theology to teach my spiritual heirs, I’d choose piety and relig
Reflection for Independence Day
Promoting peace rather than victoryREAD MORELast July 4 weekend I came across the following church announcement:
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As I lie awake each night in Iraq, I ache with homesickness for the abundant water, the evergreen trees, the peaceable mountains, the lus
News
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The Board of Trustees of the Christian Reformed Church met at the end of April with a full agenda.
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Only the buzzing of overhead lights disturbed the hush when 834 women listened to Debbie Mayer tell of losing three daughters in a traffi
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Depression, sometimes called “the common cold of mental illness” because of its prevalence, is as serious a problem as it is
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Lester De Koster, who served as editor of The Banner for 10 years as well as being a long-time librarian at Calvin College and
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March 10, 1946 – January 22, 2009
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A 38-member work crew from Second Christian Reformed Church in Byron Center, Mich., spent spring break in Waveland, Miss., cleaning up da
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Is decision-making in the Christian Reformed Church being concentrated in the office of the executive director in the cause of efficiency
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Eight members of River Terrace Christian Reformed Church in East Lansing, Mich., recently traveled to Nigeria to learn about the Nigerian
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In March, 100 teens from Lynden, Wash., hosted 50 inner-city Seattle teens for a weekend that included worship, paintball games, four-whe
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Just months after the CRC’s director of Race Relations was made a voting member of the Ministry Council, the voice of ethnic mino
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Sixteen members from Fredericton Christian Reformed Church in New Brunswick traveled from the Canadian Maritimes to Texas to do disaster
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“What will you tell your grandchildren you did during the genocide in Darfur?”
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Rev.
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When the saints came marching in to Raybrook Chapel at Holland Home in Grand Rapids, Mich., they were dressed for the occasion.
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When Synod 2009 convenes near Chicago in mid-June, the usual number of delegates will be in attendance, but there will be some changes am
Columns
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We have a son, Mark, who is gay and was a confessing member of the Christian Reformed Church.
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What are your favorite spring and summer smells? Lilacs? Freshly-cut grass? Rain? Grilled hamburgers?
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Creation Care
Q Every time I hear about environmental issues I feel guilty and unable to
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“Nathaniel Van Denend is fasting from Facebook. See you when the Son comes up.”
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Failure to Create Safe Churches
“How We Fail to Create Safe Churches” (IMHO, May 2009) suggests that churches and cou
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It is early yet,
only the first inning,
and he stands so tall and sure.
He’s a lefty
with confident eyes,
and he w - READ MORE
While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, a mother often took her 4-year-old daughter on her afternoon
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As an impoverished college student I gratefully accepted my Dad’s hand-me-downs. He gave me his coat.
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If reading is to do anything, it is to delight us and to enlarge us.
Our Shared Ministry
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Félix and Adela had been hearing for weeks about a big rally planned for Bangui in the Central African Republic and wondered what
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More than 20 years of patient work, coupled with some timely interventions by God, have led to the blossoming of the Christian Reformed C
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As a campus pastor at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Ed Laarman faces a daunting challenge: how to introduce the gospel to students
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Josh Kuipers, a junior majoring in religion, anthropology, and Kiswahili at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., had not considered a c
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Rev.
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Being born female shouldn’t mean having less access to healthcare, education, or safety.
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April showers, May flowers, June synods.