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Communion Confusion

Since retiring in 1991 I’ve had opportunity to serve many Christian Reformed churches as interim pastor.

One dark night a New York cabbie picked up a passenger.

HERE’S HOW IT USED TO BE:

It is always intriguing for me to read the various notices in Christianity Today, First Things, and similar publications announ

My title betrays a typically North American way of thinking and talking. We want to know how something works.

Church

Q: In a previous Banner you said that anyone appointed by a consistory may lead a worship

Has it snowed at your home yet? If you live in the northern United States or in Canada, it probably has.

Alice Sluiter De Boer mows her own lawn, bakes pies, drives herself around her rural town, and attends weekly church activities.

These are the days of darkness in the Northern Hemisphere.

Grief for the Unborn

I was thrilled to finally see an article on the grief of miscarriage (“Losses of the Heart,”

My Spiritual mother, the Christian Reformed Church, turns 150 this year, and I anticipate the thankful celebration.

A pastor was having an awful time with his congregation and eventually decided to pack it in.

Scripture is infallible. my interpretation of it is not. Yours isn’t either.

My father loved to tell the joke about the man who looked in the paper every morning to see if his name was in it.

Mysteries make us curious. We want to know what happened, how, and why. But you say Christmas is not a mystery?

Creation Care

Q: I hate diverting my focus from the joy of Christmas, but I’m troub

GERRY SHUDDERED at the thought. She was facing her first Christmas without her husband.

EXPECTING. We associate this seemingly innocent word with (among a good many other things) pregnancy.

Losses of the Heart

Please convey my sincere thanks to Nathan Sneller for his beautifully honest article “Losses of the Hea

A Sunday school teacher asked his class, “Who was the mother of Jesus?”

“Mary,” a child answered.

HOW ARE YOU? I am fine (better than last month). Is it cold up there at the North Pole? I bet you worry about global warming.

During World  War II days, the Andrews Sisters made the Hit Parade with their song “Roll Out the Barrel” (. . .