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Sacred Stories

Mar 12, 2020By Staff Author0 Comments

In the March/April issue of the Covenant Companion, Covenant family share the stories of their identity as indigenous people, deepening our understanding of who we are as a family of faith. Click the photos above or scroll through to read [...]

5 Minutes with Niki Wong: Drilling Down for Public Health

Mar 3, 2020By Guest Author1 Comment

By Jill Riley When Niki Wong considered moving to South Los Angeles for an internship, she was shocked to discover an active oil drilling site in the middle of a residential neighborhood, threatening the health of individuals living in the […]

Can I Be Honest?

Mar 2, 2020By Christine Chang0 Comments

I had that “I’m so out of touch these days” feeling recently when I learned that “tbh” in Instagram context didn’t actually mean what I thought it did. Pre-social media, when one began a statement with “to be honest,” it […]

Led by Love: The Next Right Thing Review

Feb 28, 2020By Guest Author0 Comments

The Next Right Thing A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions Emily P. Freeman Revell, 256 pages Reviewed by Anna Cornell | February 28, 2020 I have always been a rather hasty decision maker. Sitting in a place of [...]

Church Spotlight: A Covenant Covenant

Feb 26, 2020By Jordan Cone0 Comments

Christ Community Church Allegan, Michigan Weekly Attendance: 100 Established: 1995 By Jordan Cone When founding pastor Patrick White planted Christ Community Church in Allegan, Michigan, 25 years ago, he discovered that many in the congregation had painful experiences concerning church [...]

Church Spotlight: New Developments in New Rochelle

Feb 25, 2020By covwebster1 Comment

New York Covenant Church New Rochelle, New York Weekly Attendance: 400 Established: 1998 By Jill Riley David Holder David Holder began planting New York Covenant Church in New Rochelle, New York, [...]

Heavy Lifting

Feb 20, 2020By Linda Sladkey1 Comment

From circus school to national competitions, how one Covenanter discovered her inner strength—literally

Making Space for the Kingdom

Feb 6, 2020By Guest Author0 Comments

Making Space for the Kingdom How ten congregations, representing a multitude of nations, languages, and faith experiences, have found a church home together by Jill Riley | February 6, 2020 At 11:00 on a Sunday morning in Texas, the large [...]

Red rocks on Sinai near Moses Mountain.

Choosing Stillness

Feb 5, 2020By Guest Author0 Comments

Red rocks at Mt. Sinai In my role as pastor, I preach about 40 sermons a year. While I’d like to think each one is received as a riveting, indispensable moment of heavenly wisdom for life, here’s a confession: some [...]

A New Shift for Swedish

Feb 4, 2020By Stan Friedman0 Comments

A New Shift for Swedish Remembering the founding mission of Swedish Covenant Hospital as it concludes its 133-year-old relationship with the ECC and joins a large healthcare system in the Chicago area by Stan Friedman | February 4, 2020 In [...]

As the sun sets near McAllen TX, migrants that have crossed the Rio Grande surrender to U.S. Border Patrol near an area known as Rincon. From here they will be transported to a processing center. Photo by Mani Albrecht U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs Visual Communications Division

Life at the Border

Jan 30, 2020By Stan Friedman0 Comments

Life at the Border Behind the rhetoric, headlines, and statistics surrounding immigration are the stories of individuals and a Texas community living with the daily realities of a complex issue. by Stan Friedman | January 29, 2020 Above: As [...]

Resisting the Divide

Jan 21, 2020By Jelani Greenidge0 Comments

In an episode of the TV dramedy Sports Night, wisecracking white sports anchor Dan Rydell (Josh Charles) is being reprimanded by his loving-yet-taciturn African American boss, Isaac Jaffe (the great Robert Guillaume), when Dan tries to defend his point of […]