“Can we as Christians in the East and West, the South and the North, engage as partners in God’s reconciling mission in spite

Synod 2007 discouraged infant dedication and affirmed the Christian Reformed Church’s commitment to the sacrament of infant baptism

Synod 2007 declined to adopt the proposal of Synod 2006 to allow all baptized children to the Lord’s Table.

Rev. Evert Overeem of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PCN) brought greetings to Synod 2007.

Delegates went with experience in electing Synod 2007’s officers.

Synod 2007 instructed the denomination’s Board of Trustees to undertake an “orderly updating” of the Church Order of th

More than 90 people gathered in Grand Rapids, Mich., for the 2007 Multiethnic Conference held in conjunction with synod.

Controversy erupted around synod’s discussion on Third Wave Pentecostalism when, in a process CRC Executive Director Jerry Dykstra

After receiving not one but two reports from the study committee looking at Third Wave Pentecostalism, Synod 2007 decided not to adopt ei

Serving as women advisers to Synod 2007 were, from left, Kathy Vandergrift, Gloria Sanchez, Marilyn Baker, Mary Baas, Karen De Mol, Lydia

Synod 2007 took the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Christian Reformed Church to urge the congregations and especially the leade

Synod 2007 voted to allow First Christian Reformed Church of Prinsburg, Minn., to switch from Classis Lake Superior to Classis Minnkota,

Synod 2007 made a historic decision that allows women who are elders and ministers to be delegated to synod starting next year.

Synod president Rev. Joel Boot appointed Rev. Karl House, Classis Quinte, as the sergeant at arms.

On Tuesday night, June 12, when synod debated removing the word male from the Church Order, a record 360 people tuned in to the live vide

The synod news team, providing news reports during synod and Banner coverage afterward: (back row, from left) Henry Hess, Gayla Postma, a

I have been to eleven synods now, not quite as many as Banner Editor Bob De Moor (see p. 53).

Rev. John A. Hoeksema

1921 – 2007

As synod agendas go, the 2007 version is a hefty one.

For the past five years a group of cyclists from Toronto’s Rehoboth Fellowship Christian Reformed Church has gathere

Melynda Van Zee brought Calvinist doctrine to life recently through her art.

Jim Eekhoff, the boys’ basketball coach at Western Christian High School, Hull, Iowa, didn’t expect his young team to take th

Brielle Goheen’s violin danced through a tune fit for angels.