This two-part series, starring Douglas Henshall and Kate Ashfield, tells the story of a major car accident that forever changes the lives of those involved.
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The Most Overlooked Women of the Bible: What Their Stories Teach Us about Being Seen and Heard
Mary E. DeMuthREAD MOREThe Bible is replete with women who felt on the outskirts of life, unseen and voiceless. In their stories, you not only learn more about them but understand that you are seen and heard.
Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering an Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age
By Dr. Richard BeckREAD MOREWe live in a secular age, a world dominated by science and technology. Increasing numbers of us don't believe in God anymore. We don't expect miracles. This book points the way back.
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Shiao Chong, editor of The Banner since 2016, is stepping down from that post. CRCNA leadership working with staff to maintain publishing. New editor search to come.
Being Your Denominational Magazine
Responding to Synod 2025’s Banner decisionsREAD MOREMuch of the Christian Reformed Church’s mandate to The Banner, established in 2015, hasn’t changed, but here’s what has and what you can expect to read and not to read because of that.
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Pastors and missionaries aren’t allowed on university campuses in Mexico.
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Synod 2025 danced between continuing trust and firming up guidelines.
Eleanore of Avignon
By Elizabeth DeLozierREAD MORERich with unforgettable characters and captivating historical drama, this is the story of a healer who risks her life, her freedom, and everything she holds dear to protect her city from the Black Death.
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A request to clarify the relationship among assemblies of the Christian Reformed Church has been deferred to yet another synod.
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Christianity isn’t American or Ghanaian or Chinese.
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Assuming the driver had seen me, I pulled past the exit just as she drove onto the road, right into my path.
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As popular as it is, few people seem to know or even care about the origin and authorship of the Serenity Prayer.
Why I Help People Take Drugs: Reflections of a Christian Addiction Medicine Physician
By Meera Bai Grover, MDREAD MOREIn the midst of a devastating opioid crisis, this book by a Christian doctor working at a supervised consumption site could provide valuable lessons to help the church develop a meaningful response to addiction.
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Brilliant septuagenarian Madeline Matlock, played by Academy Award-winner Kathy Bates, rejoins the workforce at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption.
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From award–winning chef Alexander Smalls and award-winning illustrator Frank Morrison comes a “vibrant visual narrative” of family, traditions, and the little moments shared at the dinner table.
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With a message from Luke 24, synod president Stephen Terpstra dismissed delegates with a hope for “overwhelming confidence, hope, and expectation” in what God is doing.
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Denominational ministries were blessed and recognized at Synod 2025 as ministry leaders spoke about God moving in their work.
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Synod 2025 voted overwhelmingly to restrict The Banner’s mandate to articles that support the denomination’s positions.
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Speaking passionately about the vital role that church planting has in multiplying the church, Synod 2025 committed to strategizing a planting plan, including financial resources, over the next year.
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The Christian Reformed Church will review its close relationship with the Reformed Church in America over the next five years.
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Somewhat divided on the matter, Synod 2025 accepted six recommendations for ongoing experimentation of digital ministries.
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The young adult representatives at Synod 2025 say they were encouraged and inspired by conversations and connections.
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Lamenting a shortage of people to preach in all of the denomination’s churches, synod encouraged classes to help prepare individuals with a license to exhort by 2027.
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Synod 2025 recognized several positive milestones for Calvin Theological Seminary and requested a report to Synod 2026 of confessional adherence for all instructional personnel.