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Remember Well the Future: Advent Reflection

Dec 4, 2019By Guest Author0 Comments

Remember Well the Future Receiving Advent’s Covenant Promise by Don Johnson | December 4, 2019 Planning, leading, guiding, and preaching on Sundays is a high honor and privilege. But planning worship for the Advent and Christmas season is tricky business. [...]

The Disregarded Gift: Advent Reflection

Dec 2, 2019By Guest Author0 Comments

The Disregarded Gift With all our focus on Christmas, does the manger still catch us unaware? by Leeann Younger | December 2, 2019 Tanya’s life is littered with loss. To the untrained eye the ravages of urban poverty, her battle [...]

The North Park Distinctive: An Interview with Mary Surridge

Nov 18, 2019By covwebster0 Comments

The North Park Distinctive An Interview with Mary Surridge by Erin Chan Ding | November 18, 2019 At her inauguration less than one year ago, Mary Surridge, the 10th president of North Park University, referenced the nine men who [...]

5 Minutes with David Stockamp: Training Pastors in DR Congo

Nov 13, 2019By Staff Author2 Comments

David Stockamp arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 40 years ago as a missionary and minister in the Bible institute of the Covenant Church of Congo (CEUM). The CEUM operates in northwest DR Congo, an area approximately the […]

The Presence of Great Love

Nov 11, 2019By Guest Author0 Comments

Stories That Shaped My Faith The Presence of Great Love by Rebekah Strobel | November 11, 2019 The first time I sat down to read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone I was 13 years old—and I immediately sensed that [...]

Harbored

Nov 4, 2019By Cathy Norman Peterson0 Comments

Harbored Serving the world without leaving the wharf by Cathy Norman Peterson | November 4, 2019 A row of buildings fronting the wharf at Boston Harbor hides the colossal cruise ship, as well as the water, though you can still [...]

Shalom Colombia

Nov 1, 2019By Guest Author0 Comments

Shalom Colombia How young peacemakers are leading efforts to transform their communities by David Husby | November 1, 2019 The municipality of El Bagre, Colombia, is representative of the decades of conflict and violence in that country. Covenant missionary Julio [...]

Called by God: Women Who are Breaking the Stained-Glass Ceiling

Oct 24, 2019By Staff Author0 Comments

Called By God, Part Two Women Who Are Breaking the Stained-Glass Ceiling October 24, 2019 | See Part One One female lead pastor in the Covenant engages her community by building relationships on Chicago’s South Side. Another is inviting her [...]

The Hard Forgiveness

Oct 14, 2019By Staff Author3 Comments

“This space,” she said, “is sacred for us.”

Gamification: The Art of Problem-Solving Through Play

Oct 8, 2019By Guest Author0 Comments

Stories That Shaped My Faith Gamification: The Art of Problem-Solving Through Play by Kendall Churchill | October 8, 2019 When people hear of my passion for strategic board games, they often respond with some degree of skepticism: “You mean, like [...]

5 Minutes with Salim Munayer: Building Bridges to Peace

Sep 30, 2019By Stan Friedman0 Comments

Salim Munayer was born in Lod, Israel. A Palestinian Christian and an Israeli citizen, he is passionate about reconciliation, or musalaha in Arabic. In 1990, Salim founded the nonprofit organization Musalaha to promote and facilitate reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians […]

The Mothership

Sep 26, 2019By Guest Author2 Comments

I have been a reluctant church goer for much of my life. […]