The Upside of Quarantines
Drew Gordon | May/June 2020 Issue
In Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous play No Exit, three people gradually realize they are stuck in a room with each other for eternity. No communication ...
Drew Gordon | May/June 2020 Issue
In Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous play No Exit, three people gradually realize they are stuck in a room with each other for eternity. No communication ...
Unexpected Blessings As Pastor Adam Kuehner of Southfield RPC said, “Rather astonishingly, the Lord’s countenance has shined more radiantly upon ...
Sue Pikarsky | March/April 2020 Issue
The Messiah’s Quilter Bees, the quilting ministry of Messiah’s Church in Clay, N.Y., sprang to life in an unusual, circuitous way. I had been ...
Malcolm Ball | March/April 2020 Issue
How did the mission to France begin? France was recognized as the principal overseas mission field of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland at ...
Drew Gordon | March/April 2020 Issue
When I was a child, I looked forward to voting as a privilege and as another sign that I was qualified as an adult. It seemed like it would be an easy ...
Joe Comanda, Bill Edgar, Julia Mann, and Mandy Werts | March/April 2020 Issue
If you come to Broomall on the Lord’s Day, you’ll find a lot going on. We start at 9:45 a.m. with Sabbath school, followed by morning worship at ...
Shawn Anderson, Bruce Backensto, Brad Johnston, Mark Koller, Adam Kuehner, and Scott Wilkinson | March/April 2020 Issue
At the 188th Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, held at Geneva College, on June 11–14, 2019, this voting guide was put ...
Peter Chan | March/April 2020 Issue
A Distant Memory Long ago, during my student days, there was a brief conversation I had almost forgotten. I went to a traditional boarding school in ...
Mark Sampson | March/April 2020 Issue
As I sat holding his hand while he waited for a procedure in the hospital, George (Skip) Scipione spoke about living and finishing well. Knowing that ...
Reader warning: if you are below the age of 70 ½, or do not have an Individual Retirement Account (IRA), you may file this article under the ...
Nathan Eshelman | March/April 2020 Issue
Some treasures are best left untouched. There is something eerily beautiful about images of the Titanic buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean. From ...
Caleb McCracken | March/April 2020 Issue
“The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps” (Prov. 16:9). Do you have a plan for the next few years? Geneva College ...
Henry Mauser | March/April 2020 Issue
In the past decade, the idea of democratic socialism has become increasingly common in American politics and among the American public. According to a ...
In the first chapter of his debut book, Rut Etheridge III begins with an intriguing interaction between ideas from cultural icons such as Bob Dylan ...
James Faris | March/April 2020 Issue
My grandfather Paul Faris (1916–2010) was ordained a Reformed Presbyterian pastor in 1944. He and young peers were troubled by the rancorous tone of ...
James Faris and Noah Bailey | March/April 2020 Issue
I live in a big city with a lot of panhandlers on street corners. They always have signs saying they’re hungry. Since I suspect that if I give them ...
John Mitchell and George Jackson (Broomall, Pa., RPC) participated in a cruise along the coast of Norway the last two weeks of June. Erica and Adam ...
Drew Gordon | March 12, 2020
As Reformed Presbyterians seek to honor God and love others amidst the recently declared pandemic, some specific resources are available. The 2008 ...
March 12, 2020
From 2008 Minutes of Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America Jon Adams presented the report of the committee to address issues ...
Sylvester Konteh | January/February 2020 Issue
Christian and Muslim Background I am a Sierra Leonean by nationality and was raised in that country. My father had a Christian background, and my ...
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 ...