You never know what kids might say, especially in church on a Sunday morning. Teaching kindergarten Sunday school, I’ve heard comments both cute and funny. Several years ago, at Edgebrook Covenant Church in Chicago, I was teaching an Easter lesson […]
Linda Sladkey
Companion Takes First Place Honors
Chicago, IL (April 26, 2018) — The Covenant Companion won first place, Best in Class in Denominational Magazine, in the Associated Church Press (ACP) competition last week. A total of twelve top awards, including four first place honors, were added to […]
Big Q: What are your favorite sayings / advice from your parents?
I just spent the weekend with my parents, which always sends me down memory lane-especially regarding my favorite things they used to say when I was a kid. […]
Tali’s Song
Tali Johnson grew up in a strongly religious, conservative Muslim family in Kermanshah, Iran. Just as all the women in her family did, she married at age fifteen. […]
Freedom to Ask
Jia Jiang walked into a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop seeking rejection. With video cameras rolling, he approached the counter and asked for Olympic doughnuts—five interlinked doughnuts decorated like the Olympic rings symbol. […]
Big Q – Where did you go, the first time you flew in an airplane?
Air travel is pretty commonplace now, but that hasn’t always been the case. I was in junior high in the late ’70s the first time I rode in an airplane. My childhood best friend had recently moved from the Detroit […]
Covenanters on Heartbreaking Journey with Congolese Infant in Need of Transplant
OAKLAND, NE (May 2017) – Kitty Hoden, a registered nurse in this tiny rural northern Nebraska town, fell in love with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during a mission trip in 2014, when she visited a secondary school for […]
Big Q: Where do you like to go online?
I went down the Instagram hole this past weekend. I didn’t mean to spend so much time there but seriously, my niece has more than 52K Instagram followers for her hedgehog Ernest Hedgingway. I’d like to argue that much of […]
Two in a Row: Companion ‘Best Denominational Magazine’
The Companion also won first place in the feature article category […]
COV Sparks: The Outsiders, Recovering My Hallelujah, Soul Training
CHICAGO, IL (March 10, 2017) —COV Sparks, the downloadable discussion guide for small-groups, Sunday school classes, and personal enrichment based on articles from the March/April issue of The Covenant Companion, is available now. It features questions designed for reflection, journaling, […]
Big Q: What’s your favorite pet story?
Not long after the ink dried on the mortgage for our first home, my husband and I began the search for a pet […]
Funds Needed to Help Resilient Haitians Following Disaster
Following the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Matthew earlier this month, Haitians are showing tremendous resilience […]