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Columns
Read our regular columns on Faith Matters, Big Questions, Christian apologetics, Shiao Chong's monthly Editorial, the Discover page (especially for kids), the Vantage Point, the Other Six, and letters from Christian Reformed Church members and our readers. Our online-only columns are As I Was Saying and Behind the Banner.
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BULLYING: the word evokes memories in almost everyone who hears it.
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Did you ever find money on the sidewalk? Pretty exciting, isn’t it?
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Formerly “Q&A,” this column is devoted to answering a broad range of questions relating to Christian faith and life.
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A friend, recently and tragically bereaved, wrote me of the tears that came upon her during a chapel service at her daughter’s scho
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Synod 2006 and Women
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Sometimes when I’m sitting at my computer, my 3-year-old daughter, Mary, climbs onto my lap.
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Send your stories and jokes to The Banner at 2850 Kalamazoo Ave.
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Your July Banner came late so we could catch you up on the latest news from Synod 2006, the Christian Reformed Church’s annual lead
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Emerging Church
Thank you, Mark Brouwer, for your thoughtful and enlightening article “The Emerging Church” (June
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Would you like to see something really neat? Then check out a honeybee’s knees.
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Almost before debate gets started, calls for the question arise from the floor.
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A husband and wife walk into a dentist’s office. The man tells the dentist, “Doctor, I’m in a big hurry.
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Some delegates to synod (the annual meeting of the Christian Reformed Church) feel the need to speak to every issue.
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My husband was to fly in that night. No problem. I’d gladly meet him after a week’s separation.
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Most people are interested in their origins. Some who are adopted will go to great lengths to discover the identity of their parents.
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You don’t feel dizzy. You don’t see a line moving. Yet the earth moves in several ways.
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This page is generally devoted to introducing members of our church family to one another and to celebrating our diversity.
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This morning suffering is for the General Ministry of this church and the Christian Reformed denomination.
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Let’s Talk About Iraq
While I have considerable respect for both Jim Skillen and Kathy Vandergrift and their contribution
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This Summer Classis Holland is bringing an overture to synod requesting that we study the admission of all baptized members to th
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Formerly “Q&A,” this column is devoted to answering a broad range of questions relating to Christian faith and life.
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I respect and value Baptists. I even dated a girl from Moody Bible Institute when I attended Trinity Christian College, near Chicago.
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As a seminarian years ago, I pastored a small congregation. I was the preacher, the janitor, and the pianist. All for $5 a week.