The Banner

It is early yet,
only the first inning,
and he stands so tall and sure.
He’s a lefty
with confident eyes,
and he w

As an impoverished college student I gratefully accepted my Dad’s hand-me-downs. He gave me his coat.

If reading is to do anything, it is to delight us and to enlarge us.

More than 20 years of patient work, coupled with some timely interventions by God, have led to the blossoming of the Christian Reformed C

As a campus pastor at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Ed Laarman faces a daunting challenge: how to introduce the gospel to students

Being born female shouldn’t mean having less access to healthcare, education, or safety.

Rev.

Félix and Adela had been hearing for weeks about a big rally planned for Bangui in the Central African Republic and wondered what

April showers, May flowers, June synods.

Josh Kuipers, a junior majoring in religion, anthropology, and Kiswahili at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., had not considered a c

When Synod 2009 convenes near Chicago in mid-June, the usual number of delegates will be in attendance, but there will be some changes am

A 38-member work crew from Second Christian Reformed Church in Byron Center, Mich., spent spring break in Waveland, Miss., cleaning up da

“What will you tell your grandchildren you did during the genocide in Darfur?”

In March, 100 teens from Lynden, Wash., hosted 50 inner-city Seattle teens for a weekend that included worship, paintball games, four-whe

Only the buzzing of overhead lights disturbed the hush when 834 women listened to Debbie Mayer tell of losing three daughters in a traffi

Eight members of River Terrace Christian Reformed Church in East Lansing, Mich., recently traveled to Nigeria to learn about the Nigerian

When the saints came marching in to Raybrook Chapel at Holland Home in Grand Rapids, Mich., they were dressed for the occasion.

Rev.

The Board of Trustees of the Christian Reformed Church met at the end of April with a full agenda.

Is decision-making in the Christian Reformed Church being concentrated in the office of the executive director in the cause of efficiency

Sixteen members from Fredericton Christian Reformed Church in New Brunswick traveled from the Canadian Maritimes to Texas to do disaster

Lester De Koster, who served as editor of The Banner for 10 years as well as being a long-time librarian at Calvin College and

Depression, sometimes called “the common cold of mental illness” because of its prevalence, is as serious a problem as it is