In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we share a reflection from survivor leader Sunita on Isaiah 61:4. From the Covenant’s Week of Prayer resource and FREE, the anti-sex trafficking initiative, it invites prayer for survivors and those who accompany them toward healing.
Meet Pete Sutton, the Covenant’s new director of youth and young adults. With a heart for mentoring and decades of ministry experience, Pete shares his story and his vision for helping young people grow in faith that lasts a lifetime.
What makes any music “Christian”? This piece questions the label itself, exploring how faith, culture, and commerce shape what we hear—and why it may be time to rethink our understanding of the genre.
A brief exchange in 118°F Yuma highlights the value of labor. Mike Guerrero, retired Covenant pastor, reminds us that dignity can begin when we learn someone’s name.
Exploring the deep-rooted racial split between CCM and gospel traditions, its impact on today’s Christian music scene, and paths toward true unity.
Last week, delegates and global leaders gathered to celebrate 140 years of the Evangelical Covenant Church. Together we shared powerful worship, heard stories of God’s faithfulness, welcomed new churches, and celebrated the commissioning, ordination, and consecration of new ministers and global personnel.
Exploring how lone-wolf fantasies can overshadow gospel community, this essay invites all believers to embrace Jesus’s humble, communal “way of the Lamb.”
Jelani Greenidge kicks off a series on the state of Christian music, exploring its decline and offering a hopeful vision for its rebirth.
As Trinity Evangelical Divinity School announces it will move to British Columbia, Dennis Edwards considers the shifting landscape of theological education and calls for renewed imagination, formation, and faithful community in changing times.
Jelani Greenidge concludes our series on Negro spirituals with a powerful reflection on “Were You There?” and its haunting invitation to enter the story of Good Friday.
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