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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.

Members of the youth group from Immanuel Christian Reformed Church in Orange City, Iowa, traveled to the Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota this summer, helping to run a Vacation Bible School for about 65 kids.

An annual middle-school service project at a New Brighton, Minn., church multiplied its impact this summer as two other Christian Reformed congregations came on board.

Social activist Mya navigates her preteen world in this sparkling middle-grade novel. 

A charming movie about a British Pakistani teen and his love for Bruce Springsteen’s music.

A memoir of a broken CRC family and the Michigan land that binds them.

While his statement is not true of all Christian communities, his more than 20-year experience in his particular mega church circle is that people avoid these complicated topics.

“(It) forced me to reevaluate my life and realize that this was not the life that I wanted to live.”

A Christian Food Network host takes readers deep into her love of food.

The Chicago rapper’s second album is long and happy but fails to connect.