Home Given to Mother of Murdered Daughter
A masked intruder entered the home where Dejiza Coleman was staying […]
Sudanese Pastor Killed by Driver Accused of Negligent Homicide
Osman Konda, co-pastor of the Sudanese Evangelical Covenant Church in Manchester […]
Called by God: Women Who are Breaking the Stained-Glass Ceiling
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 [...]
Obituary: BettyJean (Carlson) Holmgren
CHICAGO, IL (October 24, 2019) – BettyJean (Carlson) Holmgren, wife of North Park Seminary professor emeritus Fredrick Holmgren, died Sunday, October 13. She was 94. Betty was born on March 1, 1925, in Muskegon Heights, Michigan, to Hilding Gustaf and […]
Obituary: Lon Allison
Allison developed the Covenant’s Schools of Prayer and Bringing My World to Christ. […]
The Miracle of Recovery: Addiction Nation Review
Addiction Nation What the Opioid Crisis Reveals about Us Timothy McMahan King Herald Press, 272 pages Reviewed by Doug Bixby | October 21, 2019 Addiction Nation is a great resource for anyone impacted by addiction and an important read for [...]
Church Opens Lot to Flooded-Out Harvest Workers
Hope Covenant Church has opened its parking lot this week […]
Team Ministers to Protesters in Ecuador
“We were so thankful for their courage and compassion […]
Five for Friday: Evangelical Leaders, Ancient Women Priests, 19 Weird Records
CHICAGO, IL (October 18, 2019) – Covenanters routinely share links to social media articles and videos that Covenant News Service believes may be of interest to others. Each Friday we post five of them. Following is a sample of those […]
Going Broader and Deeper: Surprised by Scripture Review
Surprised by Scripture Engaging Contemporary Issues N.T. Wright HarperOne, 240 pages Reviewed by Laurie Danielson Cornell | October 16, 2019 In Surprised by Scripture, one of the world’s leading Bible scholars invites us to engage 12 contemporary issues with a [...]
Seeking Truth
The opening lines of the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, released earlier this summer, set the stage for its depiction of the USSR’s handling of the world’s most destructive nuclear accident: “What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we’ll mistake […]
The Hard Forgiveness
“This space,” she said, “is sacred for us.”