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A Peg in His Holy Place

Gordon Keddie | May/June 2017 Issue

Theme Articles /  Christian Living 

Now for a little while grace has been shown from the Lord our God… to give us a peg in His holy place (Ezra 9:8). It once fell to me to read ...


Running the Race

Maria Rockhill | March/April 2017 Issue

Testimonies 

I crouched at the starting line, poised, every nerve taut. This was it. No turning back. The shimmering heat and starting gun rose slowly, silently ...


Tech, Tweets, and Tattoos

Aaron Sams and Gabriel Wingfield | March/April 2017 Issue

Christian Living 

Anyone over 30 will remember a time when the household phone was attached to the wall, when messages between school friends were passed discreetly in ...



Book Reviews

March/April 2017 Issue

Reviews 

What does a Yale-educated lawyer in San Francisco have in common with a hillbilly from Appalachia? Probably not a lot. But in the New York Times ...


Fifty Million Neighbors

Duran Perkins | March/April 2017 Issue

Theme Articles 

Fifty million people live in the Northeast I-95 corridor—one out of every six Americans. Washington, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston incubate ...



Rebuilding the Walls

Daniel and Esther Howe | March/April 2017 Issue

Theme Articles 

In the dramatic opening of his book, Nehemiah, a trusted official in the Persian Empire, receives news of Jerusalem from Jewish travelers: “The ...






Scotland Reformed

David Whitla | January/February 2017 Issue

Theme Articles 

As we join our fellow Protestants in commemorating the Reformation this year, we rightly look with them to Wittenberg and Geneva. But we also look to ...




Book Reviews

Kyle Borg | December 02, 2016

Reviews 

Religion and Politics In America Frank J. Smith (ed.) | ABC-CLIO, 2016, 968 pp. (2 vol.), $189 This is a mammoth accomplishment from Frank Smith, ...


Hope to a Snoozing, Struggling Sinner

Joel Hart | November 30, 2016

Testimonies 

As I sat near the front of the Calvin College auditorium, Dave Long came to the podium to preach on Jeremiah 1. It was an evening worship service at ...


A Crazy Game of Hangman

Mark Sampson | November 30, 2016

Agency Features /  Seminary 

So much had changed since the copyist initiated his delicate and masterful work. If this scroll could tell the tale of its passing through time and ...


Equipping People for a Changing World

Drew Gordon | November 23, 2016

Theme Articles /  Interviews 

The Witness editor sat down with Calvin Troup just days after his inauguration as Geneva’s 20th president to discuss his long history with Geneva ...