Voices: Repetition and the Heart

Lingawe Sarah Singa, a 19-year-old junior at Lycee Vanette, the girls’ high school at Karawa, had died […]

Voices: This Is My Home

In April of 1992 I was brought to the United States of America; I was six months old […]

Whatever Happened to Pietism?

In their wonderful new book, The Pietist Option, Covenanters Mark Pattie and Chris Gehrz frequently cite Dale Brown, a major historian of the Pietist movement. […]

What Do We Want?

All my life I’ve been an avid reader, and as a long-time blogger, I’ve built up an online community with other writers, many of whom

When Two Sides Are One Too Many

In progressive Portland, the idea that anyone could be so enamored by the cultural traditions of the Old South that they could overlook the horrors of American slavery is, well, laughable. It’s funny because it’s ridiculous—and also because it’s true. […]

Exactly. Especially. Now.

It’s late fall over here on the West Coast. The angle of the light is changing, days are shorter, breezes are brisker. Soon we will begin making plans for Thanksgiving, hoping against hope that there will be more to be thankful for at that end of the month than there is right now. […]

Compass Bearings: Burden More Than Vision

This is a major year for leadership transitions in the Covenant. Two conferences, Southeast and Canada, will be searching for superintendents. […]