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After visiting 60 Christian Reformed congregations across Canada through 2018 and 2019 Jeremy Benjamin sees a “real understanding of putting our faith into action when it comes to kingdom work in our cities.”

In 1919, when Johanna Veenstra crossed the Atlantic, she became the first Christian Reformed missionary to serve outside North America and its first female missionary.

For 32 years, Tim Palmer devoted his life to the people of Nigeria as a seminary professor and scholar. He died Aug. 20 at age 68.

Diet Eman, a Dutch resistance hero during World War II who died Sept. 3, wrote for The Banner and shared her story in her later years. See here what she wrote.

A pastor who sought to emphasize Jesus’ command to love one another, Jim Mantel died Aug. 16.

Taylor Swift’s seventh album shifts gears from hate to love. 

An illuminating photo-journalism book documents the dignity of those on the margins. 

In a culture drowning in conflict, there is simply nothing more beautiful, needful, or relevant than the reconciling power of the gospel and a people willing to live in light of it.

Whatever it looks like and however it is made, bread is a part of many celebrations and everyday meals all around the world.

The author of Genesis had no intention of giving us a 21st-century, scientifically precise account of how God created all things.

Mark Charles, speaker and author with Navajo and American-Dutch lineage with a history in the Christian Reformed Church, is running an independent campaign for the U.S. presidency, desiring to build a nation where “‘We the people’ truly means all the people.”

Dordt University’s two Pro-Tech programs offer students a different way to train for careers in agriculture and manufacturing.

What the horror genre has to teach us about good and evil. 

A beautifully narrated middle-grade novel highlights the dignity of India’s street children.

I recall the days when “Grape Road” was lined with cornfields and farmsteads. Now it’s a continuous three-mile strip of commercialism.

In making the visit, she saw how volunteers such as these in the village of Akokma are making progress possible even after an official program has ended.

“아직 다 안 왔어요?” 어린 아이들을 뒷좌석에 태우고 운전한 경험이 있으면 한 번쯤 들어봤을 질문입니다. 때로는 한 번이 아니라 계속해서 듣는 질문이지요!

A well-known memoirist takes a DNA test and makes an earth-shattering discovery.

Netherlands-based, worldbeat band Trinity stubbornly holds onto their God-story. 

We tell ourselves that we’re not playing for the money, and this might be true for a friendly game of no-stakes poker, but lotteries are always about the money, aren’t they?

엘리자베스는 다른 사람들은 모두 축복의 말들을 받았지만 자신은 제외되었음을 느꼈습니다. 다른 장애우들도 자신과 비슷한 경험이 있는지 궁금해졌습니다.

Mental health has been on the minds of The Banner staff and its readers.

With three days, 100-plus people, and church members aged 2 to 90, First Christian Reformed Church in Oskaloosa, Iowa, launched a mission in Mahaska County to love their neighbors with action.