I want this article to focus on the positive, since focusing on the positive can improve a person’s perspective.
As I Was Saying
This is The Banner's online opinion column, from a variety of different writers, published Fridays.
Every conspiracy, if it is going to gain a hearing and spread, will always appeal to our passions and prejudices, even when we know better.
Sharing information is more efficient than ever, but sadly the church is again fragmenting at a whole new level.
It’s the only way these days to visit this landmark of Christianity. Pay money to go to church.
We’ve all had to deal with more grief, loss, and change than usual over the past 18 months, and that includes the children in our families, churches, and communities.
If even the smallest creatures are capable of such altruism—sacrificing one’s life so that others may live—why have we as adult human beings failed to protect the most vulnerable of our race?
Jesus’ return is not a reason to do nothing about the climate crisis. In fact, the opposite is true: God will call us to give an account of what we did here in this life, in this world.
There is always the right of appeal, of proving the assembly wrong (see also Art. 30), and of requesting “revision of a decision” previously made (see Art. 31).
It’s best to approach life like fresh bread intended to be made and eaten daily.
The New Testament makes this point as well when it compares the road that leads to eternal life as narrow and the one that leads to destruction as broad.
I remember thinking, in the crowded sanctuary, lit purple and red with sweeping lights, “I am not this kind of Christian.”
During his ministry, Jesus continually showed how God values what we consider common.
Baseball, the American pastime, is a sport that many parents and grandparents share with children. But do we bring the same intentionality to bear on passing down through the generations a desire to worship God?
One woman tells her story of navigating eight decades of growing and leading in the church.
From north to south and east to west the people in power in Canada and the U.S. historically have failed to see others in the image of God.
In the wake of multiple announcements of discoveries of unmarked graves at former Canadian residential schools for Indigenous children, waves of agony have crashed across the country.
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The sexual revolution that started in the 1960s is now as pervasive and inescapable as the popup ads on our computer screens. Almost no home or family or person has been unaffected by it.
If Christians would again lead the way in prioritizing social responsibilities over personal rights, it could serve as a counter to the potential “fall of Christianity” in the global North.
As an Indigenous person who was adopted into a white family and then connected with my birth family and community later on in life, I’ve learned some important lessons.
With the pandemic winding down, we need a few basic godly goals to help us serve.
Jesus demonstrated how eternity could look by taking seriously people’s needs here on earth.
Though our representation may be flawed, Christ can turn our weakness into his strength.
Writer Charles C. Camosy echoes a call to courage for pro-life constituents to stand "clearly and firmly for prenatal justice regardless of the political consequences."
Nature has the power to draw us out of ourselves.