In this sequel to his best-selling Growing Up Amish, Ira Wagler unfolds his journey of faith in Christ after leaving the Amish church. He opens his ...
James Faris and Noah Bailey | November/December 2020 Issue
Over the years I have heard several stories from credible people about haunted buildings and other supernatural behavior. Recently a non-Christian ...
Bonnie Weir | November/December 2020 Issue
“That children yet unborn might know, and their descendants lead, to trust in God, recall God’s works, and His commandments heed.” All four of ...
The Atlantic Presbytery of the RPCNA met at White Lake Covenanter Camp (New York) Sept. 24–25. Normally the presbytery is hosted by a church within ...
Shawn Anderson and Nathan Eshelman | November/December 2020 Issue
Parents often tell their children to listen: Listen to what I am saying. Are you hearing what I am saying to you? Are you listening? The Westminster ...
Cara D. Todhunter | November/December 2020 Issue
As a healthcare administrator, I never thought we would experience a pandemic such as COVID-19. It has affected every aspect of our daily lives. We ...
Nathaniel Pockras | November/December 2020 Issue
While preparing the interview with Bob McFarland about his 60 years in various ministry roles, we thought of one of his colleagues in Midwest ...
Andrew Kerr | November/December 2020 Issue
During the pandemic, I have grown some red hot chilies. Much to my surprise, and to the consternation of my wife, every seed germinated. The plants ...
The first three Covenanter families from eastern Iowa arrived in 1854, picking out homesteads and settling several miles south of what is now Clarinda ...
Mark Sampson | November/December 2020 Issue
Although he is now a man with a dual-major undergraduate degree, two graduate-level degrees, and a PhD, he had never wanted to go to college. Jeff ...
Drew Gordon | November/December 2020 Issue
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God” (Matt. 5:9). So important is peacemaking that it is highlighted by Christ as one ...
Audrey McMahan | November/December 2020 Issue
Due to the COVID-19 shutdown, Jason Thoman had to discontinue many of his usual ministry undertakings. So, he has taken advantage of opportunities to ...
When I was two years old my father accepted the gospel call to Quinter, Kan. It was the early 1930s (sometimes called “The Dirty ’30s”). Dust ...
Jonathan Parnell | November/December 2020 Issue
I was sitting at a table with two other trained Christian conciliators listening to a room full of church leaders try to describe the situation at ...
Joel Hart | September/October 2020 Issue
Made with real fruit. Bursting with fruity flavor. Fruit in every bite. Advertising slogans repeatedly reveal one simple truth: fruitfulness is ...
Kyle Borg | September/October 2020 Issue
How do I know that God exists? That is an important question, and it is one that every Christian should be able to answer. Sadly, many are poorly ...
Mary Brown | September/October 2020 Issue
(1) What country has the largest pool in the world? (2) What country has the highest city in the world? (3) What subcontinent is home to at least ...
Nathaniel Pockras | September/October 2020 Issue
Quarantine. Wearing a mask. Keeping safer at home. Pandemic. No public worship. Closing and reopening. Many of us think of these far more often than ...
Daniel Howe | September/October 2020 Issue
In January 1919, my great-grandfather Edwin Howe was finishing his stay at a sanitorium for tuberculosis patients when the Spanish Flu swept through ...
Amanda McCracken | September/October 2020 Issue
Moving across the world is something that few people have the opportunity to experience, but I have recently been challenged and privileged to be one ...
The only congregation of the RPCNA in the state of Wyoming is in Laramie, a small city sprawled across a broad valley along Interstate 80 where the ...
Though unfamiliar to some, since at least Augustine it’s commonplace to speak of man’s fourfold state: the state of innocency, the state of ...
I recently learned that quite a few people inquire with the RP Witness for practical suggestions on how congregations can find encouragement for ...
Having grown up in the midst of war-torn Iran and in a strictly Muslim family, at age nine Naghmeh Panahi nonetheless heard the Word of God and ...