The Stranger in the Woods left me with questions and connections that made this random purchase in an airport bookstore worth it. So take it from this stranger—this extraordinary book can speak to your life. And remember, the ways of God are often strange.
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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?
Seek the Giver, Not the GIFs
A familiar social media ritual happens in my Facebook feed every day. Someone will post a clickbait headline designed to shock, surprise, or inflame. Then people post their reactions. Many times those reactions, instead of being written comments or emojis, […]
Sweet Home Appalachia
A church planter returns to his roots in West Virginia.
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 [...]
Ready to Rumble
Brown’s research on leadership reads like a series of stories from a friend. Her witty insights and personal failures invite us as readers to consider our own stories, the ways we have led with courage and vulnerability, and the new paths we must take forward. This book has challenges and encouragement for anyone who desires to lead with their whole self, in or out of the workplace.
Seeking Safety
The painful passage of a family fleeing persecution and the power of Covenant voices
Paying Attention to Death
It is perhaps commonplace to think of life as a blur. Lent asks us to slow down, to pay attention.
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 […]
As the Stone Gives Way
Practicing the Easter journey
Big Q: How do you engage with the season of lent?
The Big Q How do you engage with the season of Lent? March 8, 2019 I try to give up attitudes and behaviors I think God wants me to give up: anxiety, demeaning thoughts about others, materialism, short snide answers, [...]