The Bananer: The Parody that Rocked the Church
The reaction provides a window to the time period.
It’s hard to imagine now that a spoof of The Banner would cause threats of university expulsion, even excommunication, for its authors.
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It wasn’t Gutenberg’s press, but for almost 90 years the printing press had an outsized effect on the location and size of the CRC’s denominational facilities.
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While many readers were shocked, even appalled, at the 2025 mandate change, tussles over the balance between confessional boundaries and editorial freedom are not new.
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The CRC took the reading of its publications as a serious spiritual matter.
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It’s The Banner’s 160th birthday this year, but De Wachter was actually the Christian Reformed Church’s official publication for its first 50 years.
