Voices: A “Stronger, Smaller, and Stranger” Church Is in Your Future
By T. David Beck SACRAMENTO, CA (August 10, 2015) — The number of self-professing Christians in America is continuing to decline. The number of “nones” (people
By T. David Beck SACRAMENTO, CA (August 10, 2015) — The number of self-professing Christians in America is continuing to decline. The number of “nones” (people
By John E. Phelan Jr. From 1618 until 1648, Europe experienced one of the most brutal, bloody, and destructive wars in an already long and
Sure, that’s a click-baity title, but it got you to read, right? (Never mind that there’s no clicking in print media, you knew what I
My husband and I met in college and married about six months before I graduated. We came from similar backgrounds—our parents were followers of Jesus
By Ben Kerns SAN RAFAEL, CA (July 20, 2015) — Ben Kerns is pastor of youth and children at Marin Covenant Church in San Rafael, California.
Our church is in the habit of “mobbing” small businesses. Our mobs are both spontaneous and planned. We learn about a new establishment in our
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By David Bjorlin CHICAGO, IL David Bjorlin is a pastor of worship at Resurrection Covenant Church in Chicago and adjunct lecturer in worship at North
This July 12-17, our once-every-three-year denominational youth conference, known as CHIC, will be held in Knoxville, Tennessee. CHIC stands for Covenant High (as in high
The will to embrace—love—sheds the light of knowledge by the fire it carries with it,” writes theologian Miroslav Volf in his essay “Forgiveness, Reconciliation and
I’ve always had kind of a subversive streak, which is why sometimes things crack me up in the Bible that aren’t meant to be funny.