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As I lie awake each night in Iraq, I ache with homesickness for the abundant water, the evergreen trees, the peaceable mountains, the lus

What are your favorite spring and summer smells? Lilacs? Freshly-cut grass? Rain? Grilled hamburgers?

Creation Care

Q Every time I hear about environmental issues I feel guilty and unable to

“Nathaniel Van Denend is fasting from Facebook. See you when the Son comes up.”

Recently The Banner asked Rev. Ken Baker and Rev.

Failure to Create Safe Churches

“How We Fail to Create Safe Churches” (IMHO, May 2009) suggests that churches and cou

We have a son, Mark, who is gay and was a confessing member of the Christian Reformed Church.

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