My Brother

I am the fourth child born to parents who thought they stopped after the third. Mark, twenty-one months older than me, was born with multiple

Food Hubs Make Good Food Accessible

Where I live, corn and soybean fields stretch for miles in all directions. The crops eventually become ingredients in everything from high fructose corn syrup

Voices: Worship and the Journey of Collaboration

MOUNT VERNON, WA (August 15, 2014) — Editor’s note: From time to time, we come across articles by Covenanters in church newsletters, individual blogs, and other

Voices: Doing a ‘New’ Thing—Still

CHICAGO, IL (August 11, 2014) — Editor’s note: 12 Years a Slave and Fruitvale Station each drew multiple awards and critical acclaim earlier this year

Teach and Love Your Children Well

Parents and grandparents, this column is for you. Dads and grandpas in particular. The Bible stresses the importance of family in transferring faith from generation

How Many Followers Do You Have?

At the behest of our executive director of communications, Ed Gilbreath, I began to tweet recently. I’m already up to a few hundred followers and

The Right to Refuse

Can you fit your yearly output of household trash in a single quart-sized jar? Bea Johnson can. Sometimes I meet people who take sustainable living

Repristinate

Borrowing from our friends at Sesame Street, this month’s column is brought to you by the word “repristinate.” Retired Covenant pastor and superintendent John Notehelfer

Voices: Re-Membered

By Evan Wilson Austin, TX (April 18, 2014) — Editor’s note: From time to time, we come across articles by Covenanters in church newsletters, individual