Facing hard truths about our throwaway culture
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Can Power Be Saved?
In light of recent abuses by leaders in Christian organizations, the Companion looks at reclaiming a healthy understanding of authority in the church.
A Call in the Wild
A Call in the Wild Meeting God in the loneliness by Mike Coglan | April 16, 2019 I crave peak spiritual experiences. But I’ve found that even for a pastor, most of life takes place in the long valleys between the [...]
Five Minutes with LMDJ and Merge: New Pathways of Domestic Disaster Response
When disasters happen domestically—whether fire, flooding, or mudslides —Love Mercy Do Justice works with local partners to help communities with short-term relief and long-term recovery. And Merge organizes short-term mission trips through Serve Globally so Covenanters can go and serve.
Back to Where We Once Belonged
Back To Where We Once Belonged How a trip to Colombia became a journey toward understanding identity and God’s true call. by Cheryl Lynn Cain | April 15, 2019 As a first generation Colombian American growing up in the suburbs, [...]
The Good News of Taco Tuesday
If all we hope for after we die is to live as disembodied souls floating in the clouds as part of a heavenly choir, I’m just not interested. I love pizza way too much to ever believe in that kind of eternal destiny. I love apple crisp way too much to even entertain the idea that heaven would deprive me of what is so wonderful and pleasurable about being an embodied person. I’m holding out for a resurrected body with taste buds intact.
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?
Sweet Home Appalachia
A church planter returns to his roots in West Virginia.
Small Towns Pull Together in Crisis
SLOAN, IA (March 22, 2019) – This is how small towns are. Sloan is seven miles from Hornick, which completely flooded on Thursday, March 14, after a levee north of the community was breached due to the heavy rain and […]
Shattering False Redemption
Shattering False Redemption Sharing the Hard Stories of Our History by Leeann Younger | March 21, 2019 This year our church plant will celebrate our ninth Easter Sunday together. (Can we can still be called a church plant?) Every year [...]
Seeking Safety
The painful passage of a family fleeing persecution and the power of Covenant voices
Big Q: What Are You Waiting For?
Pastor Carol Shimmin Nordstrom writes in her February devotional of the Covenant Home Altar about overhearing staff at a coffee shop talking about what they were waiting for—finishing college, the season opener for a college sports team, etc. She was surprised […]