Global food security is an ongoing issue that has become more complex with climate instability and COVID-19. World Renew offers hungry people opportunities to meet their needs sustainably.
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From the annual Passion conference comes a live album with an hour and a half of worship music.
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Let us learn to take the often tough, long, and tiresome road.
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Classical and denominational work can be demanding, but it is another important part of ministry, several pastors agreed.
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The 2023 CRCNA Congregant Survey shows respondents pray or do devotions alone most of the time.
In Memoriam: Rev. Jack James Matheis
1924-2023READ MOREA pastor with a kind and gentle spirit who affirmed God's faithfulness and grace into the final days of his 99 years, Jack Matheis died Sept. 6.
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Dordt University in Sioux Center, Iowa, is among Christian post-secondary schools setting ‘a record for breaking records’ this year. Other Christian Reformed affiliated schools also report strong numbers.
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New Life Church, a congregation of the Christian Reformed Church within the Newton (Iowa) Correctional Facility, has been back to worship post-pandemic for nine months. It’s feeling growing joys and pains.
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Read the paperback version of The Maid, a cozy whodunnit, just in time for its sequel, The Mystery Guest, releasing in November.
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Quarterback follows three of the biggest quarterbacks in the game – Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins and Marcus Mariota – through the 2022-2023 NFL season.
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Encanto meets The Chronicles of Narnia by way of Colombian folklore in this middle grade fantasy adventure.
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Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron Age world through the suspenseful dual narrative of a boy and girl both battling to survive.
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With guns at the ready, men in military uniforms were running through his family’s compound in South Sudan.
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Despite Rajan’s high status and material success, his actions left him feeling spiritually exhausted and even afraid.
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‘We wanted to bridge a gap’ said NAE’s director of racial justice and reconciliation collaborative.
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The CRC’s Adrian Jacobs reflects on his former parishioner, Indigenous artist Jace Martin, whose Beautiful Broken Pieces album was released in September 2023.
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Does God want us to create computers with artificial intelligence even though he gave us perfectly good brains to do the work ourselves?
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See how readers responded to recent Banner issues, articles, and columns.
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Eight Ontario churches and one in Iowa are helping each other over the next eight months to be “profoundly welcoming and hospitable to the LGBTQ+ community” while honoring the parameters of the CRC’s recent human sexuality report.
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A Canadian memoirist tells the story of her immigrant father’s faith, even as he suffered from ALS.
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The debut picture book by Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author Matthew McConaughey
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Malcolm Guite reads poems and other classic literature from his enchanting library.
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This timely and thought-provoking story about a teen girl shouldering impossibly large responsibilities and ultimately learning that she doesn’t have to do it alone is the perfect follow-up to Daniel Aleman's award-winning debut novel, Indivisible.
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Named for a place where fresh water and salt water mix, Estuary is a movement of conversation groups, and Pastor Paul VanderKlay thinks every church should have one.