The Covenant Companion was honored with eleven awards from the Associated Church Press (ACP) and nine awards from the Evangelical Press Association (EPA) for works published in 2018. Five first-place awards included recognition in the categories of In-Depth Coverage, Interview, Column, Letters to the Editor, and the tongue-in-cheek category, Best Disparaging Letter to the Editor.
Linda Sladkey
Big Q: What’s your favorite line of poetry or song lyric?
Do you have a line of poetry that sticks with you? The Companion wants to know—What’s your favorite phrase from a poem or song lyric?
Big Q – How do you observe Lent?
In our house we don’t usually give things up for Lent, but several years ago, my husband decided to stop driving over the speed limit for the forty days leading up to Easter. He reasoned that slowing down might give […]
Meet and Greet Survival Guide
We are called to be part of the body. We need connection. So how do I navigate the parts of church that feel in opposition to
my nature?
Life Giving
Zaya Gilmer had been attending New Life Covenant Church in Palatine, Illinois, for just one month when
she noticed John Moon’s name on the prayer list in the bulletin. Diagnosed with renal failure at age twenty-six, John had been on the national registry for a kidney donation for three years. […]
Big Q: What funny or endearing comments have you overheard in Sunday school?
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 […]
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 […]