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On the Edge: Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture Review

Dec 9, 2019By Guest Author0 Comments

Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture An Agrarian Reading of the Bible Ellen F. Davis Cambridge University Press, 254 pages Reviewed by Dave Rinker | December 9, 2019 When I heard that theologian Ellen Davis needed someone to pick her up at [...]

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 [...]

Enjoy Life

Nov 25, 2019By Christine Chang0 Comments

I recently learned that my maternal grandfather, a pastor who planted churches in Korea and founded a Korean American immigrant church in the United States, regularly conveyed these words of guidance to his own children: “Enjoy life.” It was with […]

Shaping the Future: Sustainable Young Adult Ministry Review

Nov 20, 2019By Guest Author0 Comments

Sustainable Young Adult Ministry Making It Work, Making It Last Mark DeVries and Scott Pontier IVP Books, 224 pages Reviewed by Jordan Cone | November 20, 2019 Being a young adult in church can be awkward. No longer in high-school [...]

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 Author3 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 [...]

Lift Jesus Up, Carefully, Please

Nov 6, 2019By Jelani Greenidge2 Comments

Breaking away from the pack to do something different can produce obvious benefits, but there can also be unintended consequences. In the Hamilton showstopper “The Room Where It Happens,” the titular hero lectures his frenemy Aaron Burr, “When you got […]

Harbored

Nov 4, 2019By Cathy Norman Peterson1 Comment

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 Author1 Comment

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 [...]