Navigating the Emotional Toll of a Pandemic
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Obituary: Marcia Friedman
Marcia Friedman, wife of Covenant minister and Covenant Companion news editor Stan Friedman, died Monday, July 20, of pancreatic cancer.
For Dominant Christian Culture, It’s Excavation or Extinction
Rigid conformity robs us from experiencing all the richness and beauty of God’s creation.
TW Anderson Nominations Deadline Extended
The award is named in honor of the only lay president to serve the Evangelical Covenant Church. The deadline for receiving nominations has been extended to August 22.
Setting Up Chairs
And Other Tales of Returning to Church—and Then Staying Home
LMDJ Announces Grant Recipients
CHICAGO (July 22, 2020)—Each year the Love Mercy Do Justice mission priority provides grants to ministry projects that seek individual and community transformation through or alongside the local church. Ministries are invited to apply for a Ministry Development Grant, and […]
World Vision Invites Pastors to Racial Righteousness Journey
(July 20, 2020)—Covenant pastors are invited to participate in May We Be One—Pastors Pursuing Racial Righteousness, a one-year journey for pastors, convened by World Vision. The purpose is to create a “community of pastors who are seeking to engage with […]
I Can’t Go Back to Normal
The American narrative that equates success with self-sufficiency poisons our identity as children of God.
There Is No Small Talk in Quarantine
The Education of an Introvert
Dear White Church
Rediscipling the White Church From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity David W. Swanson InterVarsity Press, 208 pages Reviewed by Liz Mosbo Verhage | July 14, 2020 “In the spiritual battle for a more reconciled church, every single majority-white congregation has a [...]
Grace in the Waiting Space
Stories of Ministry in a Time Apart
Six-Fold Test Summit: What Does It Mean to Practice Solidarity?
(July 8, 2020) — The Mosaic Commission of the Evangelical Covenant Church, formerly called the Ethnic Commission, convened a Six-Fold Test Reset Summit last month to discuss how the ECC is living into the Six-Fold Test, especially in the current […]