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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 ...


Fun to be Around

Michael Kearney | November 23, 2016

Theme Articles 

Recently Geneva College experienced a temporary power outage that left students in their apartments on a hot summer evening without electricity. If ...


A Goat-Raising Professor-Attorney-Coach

Christen Adels | September 16, 2016

Testimonies 

When I was a child, my family took in foster children. I was exposed to the harsh realities of broken families when we took in a four-year-old boy ...


One Lasting Gift

John M. Mitchell | September 16, 2016

Christian Living 

For over 30 years, the RPCNA has benefited from the Cecil J. S. MacLaughlin Trust Fund. The income for 2015 from Mrs. MacLaughlin’s trust fund to ...


An RP Lookalike

Michael Kearney | September 16, 2016

Agency Features /  Geneva College 

“Wait—you’re not RP?” At Geneva College I confront this question on a regular basis. Students and even professors are baffled to learn that I ...


Getting Your Writing Published

Becca Byers and Drew Gordon | September 14, 2016

Agency Features /  Publications 

You write fairly well. You have something to say. You might even have a first draft, a paper or article to expand, or research to share. You want to ...


Into Your Neighbor’s Universe

Brad Johnston | September 12, 2016

Theme Articles 

Your house might be close to your neighbor’s house, and might even have similar architecture. But when you traipse out your front door, down the ...


What the Reformed Presbyterian Conference Means to Me

Terrill Curran | August 26, 2016

Christian Living /  Agency Features /  RP International Conference 

My husband and I came into the Reformed Presbyterian denomination by way of the Oswego, N.Y., RPC in 1985. Since that time, we have enjoyed several ...


RP International Conference 2016

Drew Gordon | August 08, 2016

Agency Features /  RP International Conference /  News /  Denominational News 

Perhaps it was the most-recorded Reformed Presbyterian event in history. Nearly 2,000 Reformed Presbyterians with luggage and cell phones converged on ...


A Godly Heritage

Bruce Martin | July 18, 2016

Testimonies 

When asked where I grew up, my typical answer is “in America.” I was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and lived in Barnet, Vt., and Oakdale, Ill., before ...


Reviews

Kyle Borg | July 15, 2016

Reviews 

Knox: The Life and Legacy of Scotland’s Controversial Reformer Trinity Digital Film 2016 | 77 minutes, $17 (buy) $7.50 (rent) The name John Knox ...


Refuge in Coastal Churches

Nathan Eshelman | July 15, 2016

Agency Features /  Home Missions 

The experience of the New Testament Church began at Pentecost when many people heard the gospel in their native tongue. As those diverse peoples left ...


Entrusted with Tithes and Testimonies

July 15, 2016

Agency Features /  Finance 

You might know that the Board of Trustees reviews the investment portfolio of the church, oversees the building loans and general mortgages that the ...


A Purpose to It All

July 15, 2016

Theme Articles 

Several years ago I shared my love of words with you in a testimony for the Witness. I’ve lived what seems like at least 8 lifetimes since ...