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An intimate folk album invites us to grieve our own losses with Oregon singer Taylor Kopp.
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An American Navy commander finds himself embroiled in the longest, largest, and most complex naval battle in history. Based on a true story.
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A new middle grade novel from the author of Esperanza Rising involves a young boy and his family’s involvement in guiding fleeing immigrants to safety.
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What happens when it seems even pointless to pray because we know that healing probably won’t come?
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A young boy gets detained by ICE while crossing the border from Mexico to the United States in this searing middle-grade novel.
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A bookish reboot, a Western, a summer reality hit, and two British dramas are made for binging.
- September 28, 2020| |READ MORE
As we cry out to God to fix our broken world, communities, and systems, we can slip into the trap of starting to see people not as fellow image bearers, but as the opinions their group espouses.
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A solo project from musician John Mitchell explores how grief is the price of love.
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A poetic novel, reminiscent of both Dante's Inferno and Lost, examines themes of guilt, grief, grace, and forgiveness.
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A slim collection of essays about the pandemic and racial reckoning by the author of White Teeth.
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Like a scratched record album, her life is stuck on “repeat” and can only move forward when the needle is bumped, and we remind her of the events of the past.
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I get my news mostly from social media, Facebook in particular. As we head into the U.S. elections, how do I know whom to trust?
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Dave Ramsey’s podcast inspires and equips its listeners to get out of debt.
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A comedy about faith and family that’s a little too salty and a little too sweet
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This is a danger for people of all political stripes, from conservatives to progressives, from anarchists to conspiracy theorists.
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In its simplest form, our classification puts human beings into two categories: friend and foe.
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In Jesus, the “not yet” breaks into the “now” as we share in his resurrection and life abundant.
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Did you know that there are more than 7,500 kinds of apples grown around the world?
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Using the metaphor of the vine and the branches, Bible teacher Beth Moore invites her readers to grow and flourish.
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Minnesota-based worship band leads listeners in a grace-filled hour of music.
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True stories of rescues, miracles, angels, and answered prayers from a First Responder.
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An anthology of essays by Black female authors, read by the founder of the Well Read Black Girl book club and festival.
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In the past, The Banner used to have an entire page of reader-submitted jokes.