Every October our church has a Stewardship Sunday with a sermon about giving money to the church.
Columns
Read our regular columns on Faith Matters, Big Questions, Christian apologetics, Shiao Chong's monthly Editorial, the Discover page (especially for kids), the Vantage Point, the Other Six, and letters from Christian Reformed Church members and our readers. Our online-only columns are As I Was Saying and Behind the Banner.
The weathered and white-haired Christian Reformed elder says to my father, “This is the true church!”
The Christian Reformed Church needs an official position on gun culture.
The Cleveland and Akron churches will always remember the ministry of Rev. Emmitt A. Harrison.
On March 6, 1957, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was in Accra.
With more than 2 billion users worldwide, what could possibly be wrong with Facebook, the free social media service invented to bring us closer to each other?
It’s spring, and that means there’s a lot of building going on.
In this situation your instinct guided you, and I'm very glad you acted on it.
A red heart catches my eye.
Some people may wonder what we as Canadian members of the Christian Reformed Church have done that requires reconciliation with Indigenous people.
What if I make the wrong career choices?
On the day Billy Graham died and we remembered his life and message, high school kids in Florida were speaking out about gun control.
Each Sunday at the Village Church we ask people who are celebrating birthdays to come forward and let us help them celebrate.
The Reformed tradition has often been accused of being overly cerebral and intellectual.
When the Christian Reformed Church purchased The Banner back in 1914, it chose to protect the magazine’s editorial independence . . .
If we feel good only when we are working and become restless when we are just being with family, friends, or ourselves, then we are out of balance.
I was excited when I began to read your editorial . . .
In their efforts to create meaningful worship services, worship planners sometimes overlook the needs of children.
As a Christian, I feel called to live like Christ, which means to try to be good and kind, loving others as Christ has loved me. But as a white person, I am part of a larger history that is not good. Not kind. Not loving.
This photo is a panorama of 21 images stitched together in Photoshop. I chose to include the oil rig to make the foreground more interesting.
When I was a campus pastor, students often asked questions about the Bible’s trustworthiness or truthfulness. Most of the questions fall into three general types...
Parkland, Florida. To those of us living in northern climes, the name might evoke images of winter warmth and sunshine. But not any more. Since the afternoon of February 14, Parkland has become the latest in a litany of communities scarred by school shootings.
What’s gooey and slippery and oozes all over? If you guessed slime, you’re right!
Panic surged through Wall Street in October of 1929. On October 24, stock prices plunged briefly before several large banks intervened and the market rallied.