The Church Is Open

With no children and no volunteers left after the pandemic, a North Minneapolis church restarted Vacation Bible School anyway, praying for twenty kids to show up.

Wrestling with Hard Stories

Why is Ananias and Sapphira’s punishment so harsh? An honest reckoning with difficult passages.

Facets of Glory: How Culture Helps Us See God

A worship leader is told to put her shoes back on before the service because “that’s just how we do things around here.” Celeste Cecchi on what we can learn about culture and the church.

Faithfulness Over Influence

A spy series about performing for unseen watchers got Jelani Greenidge thinking about how we perform our faith.

Show Up

For ten years, North Park University campus pastor Terence Gadsden has been building a culture of belonging—one 5 a.m. practice at a time. This spring, students noticed.

Am I Called?

A church-conference altar call led to years of burnout before this editor found a different definition of calling.

Fifty Years After Yes

Fifty years after ordaining women, the Covenant Church is still learning to make room for the gifts it has already affirmed.

The Priesthood of All Believers

From Pentecost to the present, the whole church — ordained and lay alike — carries the mission forward.