Many churches are choosing to show videos as an alternative to readings or drama.

Jakob Dylan’s latest album opens with this: “God wants us busy, never giving up / He wants nothing but the whole wide worl

According to Sir Francis Bacon, “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” And accor

How do you love someone who is hard to love?

In Bowling Alone (Touchstone), Robert D.

Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion—the same survey as Christian Smith’s Soul Searching—this fascinati

Babies are endlessly fascinating, and so is this documentary now out on DVD.

When Patricia MacLachlan was asked to write a book about her life as an author, she responded with a fictional account of a visiting&n

Olivia Tschetter leaves her doctoral defense to learn that her mother has died.

Can you end a sentence with a preposition? Is it proper to say “different from” or “different than”?

Forty years after the birth of the band Led Zeppelin, former lead singer Robert Plant has been reborn as an interpreter of Americana r

A minister was approached by a congregant who said he was worried about the strange dreams he was having.

Begin here: A book is a story told by one soul to another soul.  This means that the writer for young readers has the opportunity

Have you ever traveled to a faraway place?

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Several issues ago Banner Editor Bob De Moor wrote about his church’s positive encounter with two devout Muslims (“In All

I am tired. Really, really tired.

In last month’s Banner we reported on a bit of a dustup at Calvin College, our denominationally owned liberal arts scho

Justice and Mercy

The two features “Illegal” and “Lopsided Mercy” (February 2011) really hit home

So far no one has asked me to join The Academy in voting on who should win the Oscars.

Sigh No More, the latest album from Mumford and Sons, is a rousing chorus of blue

This book may not be one you’d nat

Fans of Over the Rhine will agree that The Long Sur