‘Open Letter’ Most-Read Story in October

CHICAGO, IL (November 7, 2013) — The most-read Covenant News Service story for October was an article on two Covenant women who drafted an open letter calling evangelicals to stop promoting Asian stereotypes. The women also sought out signatories to the letter who included top Asian American scholars. National and international media reported on the letter.

To read that story or any of the other most-read stories, click the links below.

Covenanters Call for Dialogue on Asian American Stereotypes

Samaritan’s Purse Surprises Nome Church, Pastor

Funeral Scheduled for Sherwood Carthen

Evergreen Covenant’s New Name Reflects Major Changes

Fire Damages Missionary Home

Ahlem Was ‘Instrumental’ in Shaping Covenant Identity

Bethany Benefit Grandfathered under PPACA

First-time Marathoners Help Crosstown Raise $30,000 for Water Projects

Dean Lundgren to Retire in 2014

125-Year-Old Church Breaks Ground on Future

 

Picture of The Covenant Companion

The Covenant Companion

The Covenant Companion brings together stories and voices that connect, inform, and inspire. Subscribe to our print edition.
CONTINUE READING

Explore More Stories & News

Features

The God of Enough

A week with CWRD partner COCEPRADIL in the mountains of Honduras showed me the gift of dependence and the privilege of planning for the future.

Claudia, Nils Clauson, Paul Swanson, and Sandra. Claudia and Sandra serve with COCEPRADIL, CWRD's partner in Honduras.
Features

Go and See

Jesus’s instruction to “go and see” reframes scarcity as partnership—and shapes how Covenant World Relief and Development works alongside communities today.

News

No Roads, No Problem

Joel Oyoumick Jr. is the pilot who gets kids from Alaska’s remote villages to Bible camp—a journey that, by any other route, would take days.

Features

God’s Mercy and Our Response

This is a special additional week of Covenant Home Altar devotions from Linda Gilmore, reflecting on God’s mercy and forgiveness. Through Scripture and stories from everyday life, Gilmore considers how God’s mercy shapes the way we understand forgiveness, community, and our own response to God’s grace.

Features

Building Bridges with Curiosity

“Immigration has my face.” A Latina pastor on the bridges people built toward her and the ones she is still crossing.