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Beyond helping young people to build healthy relationships, the program also helps them recognize behaviors that are unacceptable.

우리는 기독교인으로서 만물을 하나님의 영광을 위해 사용하도록 부르심 받았습니다. 여기에는 우리가 과학기술을 어떻게 사용하느냐도 포함됩니다.

Book pulls back the curtain on what is happening in Christian bedrooms and exposes the problematic evangelical teachings that wreck sex for so many couples.

Village Lights is a multicultural worship collective formed by Sarah Kroger, Ike Ndolo, and Ricky Vazquez.

Pastor and chaplain, George Van Arragon was a man who made people feel welcomed, accepted, and encouraged. He died Dec. 27.

After a full life of ministry and a richly productive season of retirement, Lammert Slofstra, 97, died Dec. 31, 2021.

It wasn’t until later, after my encounter with the letter carrier and when I looked up the lyrics, that I realized I did get the words wrong.

See how readers responded to recent Banner issues, articles, and columns.

Our family joined a Christian Reformed church a few years ago. Recently a deacon expressed concern that we were not contributing more to the general fund. It makes me uncomfortable to think that deacons are talking about how much people are giving and whether it is sufficient. Is this what happens in the CRC?

Three years after starting a Christmas gift donation program, Fellowship Christian Reformed Church in Big Rapids, Mich., is seeing local families begin to take part in more of the church’s events and services.

Many have sought to make sense of the extreme polarities that seem to dominate our cultural and political lives.

Canadians Gus and Wynanda Polman set out on a “justice and reconciliation seeking journey” after an unexpected meeting with an executive of the U.S. National Center for Civil and Human Rights.

The hopeful story of one girl’s journey through grief as she learns to celebrate her father in the midst of sadness.

Odd-couple detectives solve coastal town crimes in this British series.

Delight in prayer as a gift from God—the means of conversing with the Trinity anywhere about anything, of never being alone, and of becoming an agent of God’s Kingdom.

Let’s look back one last time to some of our best from 2021.

By passing a talking piece around a room, everyone is invited to speak once and listen a lot.

For those who have left the church, podcasts can be a godsend.

Two big musicals and an animated children’s movie showcase Hamilton creator’s exuberance.

 Lushly illustrated in rich colors, 189 Canaries is an unforgettable story about music, migration, and the search for home.

Irish band releases third album with themes of trust, hope, and surrender.

A seminarian on his first summer assignment, in Vermillion, S.D., is about to embark on an adventure of a lifetime.

Water has a unique structure. God made it differently.