BEST DRAMA

Water

reviewed by Ron VandenBurg

ON FEBRUARY 25, the annual Academy Awards of Merit in filmmaking will be held in Los Angeles.

Communion Confusion

Since retiring in 1991 I’ve had opportunity to serve many Christian Reformed churches as interim pastor.

One dark night a New York cabbie picked up a passenger.

HERE’S HOW IT USED TO BE:

It is always intriguing for me to read the various notices in Christianity Today, First Things, and similar publications announ

My title betrays a typically North American way of thinking and talking. We want to know how something works.

CD

The True False Identity

by T Bone Burnett

reviewed by Robert N. Hosack

Jesus-powered superkids, demonic assassins, and faith-propelled boulders?

Church

Q: In a previous Banner you said that anyone appointed by a consistory may lead a worship

Has it snowed at your home yet? If you live in the northern United States or in Canada, it probably has.

Alice Sluiter De Boer mows her own lawn, bakes pies, drives herself around her rural town, and attends weekly church activities.

These are the days of darkness in the Northern Hemisphere.

Grief for the Unborn

I was thrilled to finally see an article on the grief of miscarriage (“Losses of the Heart,”

My Spiritual mother, the Christian Reformed Church, turns 150 this year, and I anticipate the thankful celebration.

A pastor was having an awful time with his congregation and eventually decided to pack it in.

Scripture is infallible. my interpretation of it is not. Yours isn’t either.

Have you ever tried to explain the Christmas story to someone who has never heard it before?

My father loved to tell the joke about the man who looked in the paper every morning to see if his name was in it.

Mysteries make us curious. We want to know what happened, how, and why. But you say Christmas is not a mystery?

This year my wife, April, learned firsthand of the wonders of Internet blogging.

Creation Care

Q: I hate diverting my focus from the joy of Christmas, but I’m troub