The Banner

An African American who writes about the faith and family focus of African American characters.

What Wanda of the Disney+/Marvel Studios series WandaVision can teach us about grieving well.

God is not indifferent or uncaring, but perhaps his silence is there for a reason. Wilderness moments are important spaces that force us to shift our understanding of God and make us more conscious of him.

My siblings and I can’t seem to agree on end-of-life decisions for our parents, and they do not have a living will. How do we find consensus, if not agreement?

Essays by poet Sadiqa de Meijer on her transition from speaking Dutch to English.

BBC’s Bloodlands serves a four-part Irish police show.

Bestselling author Timothy Keller and legal scholar John Inazu bring together a thrilling range of artists, thinkers, and leaders to provide a guide to faithful living in a pluralistic, fractured world.

The Banner and communications from RCA-CRC Disability Concerns have been recognized with “Best of the Church Press” awards from the Associated Church Press for work produced in 2020.

Congregants of Alberni Valley CRC in Port Alberni, B.C., placed flowers on a cross outdoors, and pastors of LaGrave CRC in Grand Rapids, Mich., and West End CRC in Edmonton, Alta., preached two services to accommodate smaller gatherings at each.

Two churches, connected through seven years of past work trips and separated by lack of travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, came together in worship March 21.

Though not convening this year, the Agenda for Synod 2021 has been released. It contains 14 overtures and three communications related to the human sexuality report. One, by a group of students, was submitted by three different assemblies.

I have discovered that in the land of the lonely, one has an immense wardrobe of masks. It makes me wonder what the true face underneath is.

For nearly two decades, RELEVANT Magazine remains at the forefront of media for Christian young adults.

In this moving nonfiction picture book, children learn Sachiko Yasui’s story of surviving the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and her message of peace to a young audience.

The debut studio album by American contemporary worship musician Brandon Lake.

Ralph Bruxvoort, who preached, taught, and lived out a theology centered on God's unconditional love and grace, died March 23.

In our interconnected world, actions we take now affect not only our own backyards, farms, and cities, but also distant places and peoples extending centuries into the future.

In a sense, I had embraced All Lives Matter as a movement many years ago.

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My church expects parents to help in children’s worship once a month. Is that necessary? What do we gain and what do we lose?

Ben Wiersma, preaching intern at Sibley (Iowa) Christian Reformed Church, and new member of the local ministerial association, was one of several participants in the association’s revised Easter weekend plan.

Recent reports about instances of bullying and threatening communication received by staff of the Christian Reformed Church’s Office of Social Justice have raised questions about what’s going on and why.

A deeply personal and pastoral book on how to detect abusive systems.