Recipient of the 2025 Emerging Public Intellectual award, professor Katie Day Good will speak at Redeemer University about screens and stories in a fragmented age.”

In November Richard Gamble broke ground on the creation of a giant Möbius loop to stretch nearly the size of a football field and feature digitally linked testimonies to answered prayer.

A commitment to ministry includes a commitment to raising funds for career missionaries with Resonate Global Mission. One pastor with a discipleship mission for young adults thinks “there should be some ‘fun’ in fundraising.”

A denomination-wide conference on discipleship and leadership development in the Christian Reformed Church hopes to build momentum for the denomination’s church planting vision.

A Christian Reformed church leader from Highland, Ind., serving with a disability ministry in Kijabe, Kenya, believes she was led by the Spirit to bless one young man in particular.

After two years of little celebration due to the Israel-Hamas war, holiday festivities are slowly coming back to the Holy Land. But tourism remains limited.

The Christian Reformed Church in North America is pursuing “a vision, plan, strategy, and financial proposal for church planting

A pastor and seminary administrator who served the Christian Reformed Church for more than 40 years, Bill Van Dyk is remembered as an excellent preacher and respected academic.

Christian Reformed Church general secretary Zachary King said he hoped the formalized close relationship would be a mutual blessing and encouragement.

Perhaps the first dually affiliated Christian Reformed and Alliance of Reformed churches congregation, Harrison (S.D.) Community Church is appreciating the benefits of being connected to both.

Dying at almost 93 years old, Rev. Jungkyu Park had lived a life of missionary service in Japan and to the Japanese diaspora.

Joel H. Nederhood, who served the Christian Reformed Church’s radio and television ministry The Back to God Hour (now ReFrame Ministries) for 35 years, has died at 94.

“We are all invited to overcome the scandal of the divisions that unfortunately still exist and to nurture the desire for unity for which the Lord Jesus prayed and gave his life,” Pope Leo XIV said on a visit to the site of the 325 Council of Nicaea.

A task force assigned by Synod 2024 to look at the Christian Reformed Church’s procedures for disciplining officebearers proposes two additions to “make explicit what has always been implied: major assemblies do have the authority to ensure accountability.”

Founded to provide residential treatment not currently available in Michigan, Finding Freedom Ranch, seeks to help young women "find peace with God, peace with themselves, and peace with food."

From a year-long cohort practicing hospitality, to equipping workshops for elders and deacons to live into pastoral care for LGBTQ people, CRC churches are exploring how to lovingly live within the denomination’s convictions on human sexuality.

Members of Calvary Christian Reformed Church in Flamborough, Ont., made and received more than 2,000 crocheted and knitted poppies to incorporate into a display of remembrance.

Hearing that Cornerstone Prison Church plays Bingo for Bibles sounds strange at first, but because prison rules restrict the giving of items of value to individuals except by chance, the game is a way to have inmates “win” the Word.

Lora Copley, ordained in the Christian Reformed Church since 2006 and currently a campus minister in Iowa, is the new interim editor of The Banner, to start Dec. 1.

Two representatives of the Christian Reformed Church in North America attended the General Council of the World Communion of Reformed Churches in Chiang Mai, Thailand, appreciating the interaction with different leaders and delegations from many contexts.

A group that had been pursuing a distinct Canadian Christian Reformed Church, pivoted after Synod 2025 strongly affirmed remaining binational. Its leaders hosted a summit to usher in something new.

Retired pastor and one-time home missionary serving Chinese churches in California, Peter S. Yang spoke with The Banner about the founding, 60 years ago, of Golden Gate CRC in San Francisco.

Trinity Christian College’s plan to close in 2026 includes agreements to help students complete degrees at similar schools. The economic realities affecting institutions of higher ed prompted the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities to offer a sustainability index check.