My mom is refusing to follow through with the medical treatment the doctor is recommending. She knows this will likely shorten her life, yet she remains stubborn. How can I get her to see her life’s value to us and especially to her grandkids?
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The Banner’s Mixed Media editor suggests four books to read for Black History Month, including a 1937 classic and a recent fiction bestseller.
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The true story of Mamie Till-Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who was brutally lynched in 1955 while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.
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Priest and scholar Esau McCaulley introduces the season of Lent, showing us how its prayers and rituals point us not just to our own sinfulness but also to our merciful Savior.
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The inner critic never quits. It has home field advantage on the terrain of sadness.
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The choir’s example has helped convince Kenyan churches to embrace Deaf culture.
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Named for the popular author and retired pastor, Tim Keller, the new center with an inaugural class of 26 fellows hopes to help churches ‘close the back door; open the front door; and send out the equipped’ with the gospel.
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Our diversity is something to celebrate, but it also poses unique challenges for reaching people with the gospel and seeking justice in our communities.
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Teens from around the world talk about church history.
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A great-granddaughter returns to the Great Smoky Mountains to find answers about her family member’s death 85 years before.
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The apostle Paul did not pen those words during his annual holidays, but from a prison cell in Rome.
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This might be news to some, but the salmon we find in the Midwest, including the Great Lakes, are not native.
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Let’s challenge this common understanding of Paul’s gospel and do some fundamental rebuilding of the “Romans Road.”
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Combining personal narrative, sound theology, and beautiful writing, this is a book for anyone who has loved and lost.
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Almost 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the powers of the Egyptian gods and imprisoned just as quickly, Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
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A charming and irresistibly fun picture book about a young blind girl and her grandmother who experience the vibrant everyday music of their busy city.
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I wonder about this named-yet-unknown quilt creator. Why did she craft this special quilt for our son?
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A Christian Reformed Church member in Calgary, who serves on the board of the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters, and an Edmonton CRC member known for his contributions to preserving Alberta history were recognized for community service.
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A humble but confident preacher who loved to sing hymns and continued to preach into his mid-80s, Les Van Essen died Jan. 15 at age 87.
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East Side CRC in Cleveland, Ohio, marked 150 years of ministry last year. One of its last remaining programs ministers to girls in its community.
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After working for four years to help women leaving domestic abuse, a Wyoming, Mich., charity started by members of the Calvary Christian Reformed Church is increasing its capacity to offer stable, safe housing.
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A group of 37 people representing congregations from California, Iowa, New Mexico, and parts of Canada traveled Oct. 19-25, 2022, to the southern United States to explore racial reconciliation
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신흥 리더에게 투자를 꺼리는 심리 배후에는 설립자 증후군이 깔려 있습니다.
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A third ‘Canadian Conversation’ met virtually Jan. 28. Attendees heard updates on Christian Reformed ministry in Canada and discussed God’s calling as congregations sort through implications of Synod 2022’s confessional decisions around human sexuality.