A New Garden in Old, Rich Soil Mark Brown | January/February 2021 Issue Theme Articles  “Selma, Alabama? You can’t go there. They kill black people there!” That was the sincerely concerned response of a family member upon ...
Church, Your Local Pregnancy Center Needs You Mikayla Covington | January/February 2021 Issue Theme Articles  My full-time job is saving babies from abortion. It sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Picture it: boldly standing outside of Planned Parenthood and ...
‘When Do We Go?’ Faith Martin and Charles McBurney | January/February 2021 Issue Agency Features / Publications  This article is an excerpt from the first chapter of the new book The White Chief of Cache Creek (Crown & Covenant, 2020). The Wichita Mountains ...
RP Missions—The Past and the Future Heather H. | January/February 2021 Issue Agency Features / Global Missions / News / Missions News  As the second semester of my senior year at Geneva College approached, I, like many college students, felt the rising pressure of figuring out what I ...
Hindsight Is 2020 Vicki Smith | January/February 2021 Issue Agency Features / Home Missions  As we look back at 2020, we can struggle to find an attitude of thankfulness in the midst of the experiences that blindsided us last year. From a ...
A Short-Term Plan for Long-Term Impact Bruce Backensto | January/February 2021 Issue What are your plans for Tuesday, July 20, through Monday, July 26? Too early to know? Perhaps not, if you are one of those who had registered to ...
Christian Counsel November 23, 2020 Interviews  Pastor Jay E. Adams (1929–2020) spent most of his life in pastoral, teaching, and counseling ministries. He taught homiletics, counseling, and ...
Book Reviews November/December 2020 Issue Reviews  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 ...
In the Line of God’s Faithfulness Bonnie Weir | November/December 2020 Issue Testimonies  “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 ...
Journey to a Robust Spiritual Care Program Cara D. Todhunter | November/December 2020 Issue Agency Features / RP Home  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 ...
A Long Obedience in the Same Pastorate Nathaniel Pockras | November/December 2020 Issue Theme Articles  While preparing the interview with Bob McFarland about his 60 years in various ministry roles, we thought of one of his colleagues in Midwest ...
Being Different by Remaining the Same Mark Sampson | November/December 2020 Issue Agency Features / Seminary  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 ...
Putting the Gospel Where People Can Reach It November/December 2020 Issue Theme Articles  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 ...
Serving Our Brethren in Central & South America Mary Brown | September/October 2020 Issue Agency Features / Finance  (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 ...
The RP Church and the 1918 Pandemic Nathaniel Pockras | September/October 2020 Issue Theme Articles  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 ...
One Pastor’s Plague (So Far) Daniel Howe | September/October 2020 Issue Theme Articles  In January 1919, my great-grandfather Edwin Howe was finishing his stay at a sanitorium for tuberculosis patients when the Spanish Flu swept through ...
Here to Stay Bill Kilgore | September/October 2020 Issue Testimonies  I was on a call from my home office with a couple of my Lockheed Martin colleagues on Sept. 16, 2019, when our house phone rang (yes, we still have a ...
Why Are You Looking among the Dead for One Who Is Alive? William J. Edgar | September/October 2020 Issue Agency Features / Publications  This article is an excerpt from the seventh chapter of the new book, 7 Big Questions (Crown & Covenant Publications, 2020). People often look ...
Spiritual Well-Being for Seniors Patricia Boyle | September/October 2020 Issue Agency Features / RP Home  This spring, Reformed Presbyterian congregations received a special appeal from the Reformed Presbyterian Home for funds to help with the COVID-19 ...
Chapel on the Grid Caleb McCracken | September/October 2020 Issue Agency Features / College  Geneva College is a missional institution, being student focused and emphasizing Christ, comprehensive education, and service to God and neighbor. A ...
The Kingdom of Heaven in the Middle Kingdom March 2024 News / Missions News  It can be hard to grasp the subject of persecution here in the West. We live at ease and in wealth like the world has never known. Only in the last ...
A Heart for Students, Missions, and the Globe Agency Features / College  Dr. Jonathan Watt is a Bible and linguistics professor at Geneva College, and he is very passionate about missions. Born in Sydney, Australia, Watt ...
How Can We Sing the Lord’s Songs in Babylon? Theme Articles  Can you picture the scene? A group of Jewish exiles have gathered for their daily catch-up by the banks of the Euphrates River at the end of another ...
Answering the One Big Question Gentle Reformation  Why does a good God permit evil in His world? This is the one question that has occupied mankind since the garden of Eden. Many poets, playwrights, ...