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With budgets facing ongoing strains, saving money isn’t a tough sell in most congregations these days.

Kudos

Seldom do I read The Banner and come away greatly blessed and encouraged, but with the March 2010 issue I certainly did.

For more than half a century our denomination has maintained a close bond with the Christian Reformed Church in Cuba. As the Februar

If I were an atheist (you’ll be pleased to know I am not), I would scan my fellow lumps of biomass and conclude, “Human life

At the stove, waiting for the rice to boil.

According to a radio report, a middle school in Oregon was faced with a unique problem.

I was walking past the youth room in a church I used to attend when I overheard the following: “Why do we have to study the Heidelb

The journey of grief is arduous. It is exhausting, seems never-ending, and is filled with anguish and suffering.

What are your favorite signs of spring? Robins? Crocuses?

Church

Q. Our pastor has been here well over a decade.

Got Religion?

It’s articles such as “Got Religion?” (January 2010) that ease my own discomfort with no longer b

When synod encouraged Christian Reformed churches to study the Belhar Confession—in view of the CRC’s potential adoption of i

have a friend with whom I hesitate to be seen.

What have you done for the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee lately?

Synod 2008

Thanks for the thorough and balanced coverage of synod. What a rich denomination we are part of!

We wish we’d had enough room to run the full versions (below) of these two letters in the February 2010 print Banner.

Send Us Your Photos!

Now that John Calvin’s 2009 whirlwind world tour is over, The Banner is pleased to inaugurate a brand-

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Did you know that the earth is a “closed system”?

Church

Q If elders and pastors no longer regularly visit congregation members in their ho

Epiphanies

I found the visual graphic of the fist on page 7 of the January 2010 Banner both startling and unsettling.

The findings from the recent survey of Christian Reformed churches and their members (see “Who We Are Today,” p.

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