Although I am resigning in protest, I am not bitter or angry. I am disappointed, of course, but I have gone through a discerning process.
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.
This command seems almost quaint in our perpetually connected, productivity-obsessed culture.
Isolation has crept in slowly—first through busyness, then through screens, and now through habits we don’t even question. It’s not just sad—it’s spiritually dangerous.
Healing is not linear; neither is grief.
Being Your Denominational Magazine
Responding to Synod 2025’s Banner decisionsMuch 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.
Christianity isn’t American or Ghanaian or Chinese.
Assuming the driver had seen me, I pulled past the exit just as she drove onto the road, right into my path.
As popular as it is, few people seem to know or even care about the origin and authorship of the Serenity Prayer.
We were determined to find the ducks that were quacking in the middle of the forest. But that’s not what we found.
Power-over is coercive, controlling, and manipulative. Power-with is collaborative and authoritative.