Grant Van Leuven | May 01, 2007
What is a 24-year-old Hoosier girl aspiring to a Ph.D. in cognitive science doing at a seminary in Pittsburgh? Call it providence. In September ...
Teresa Pegors | May 01, 2007
Last summer, the world-renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett was invited to give two lectures at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. Some of his ...
Richard Gamble | May 01, 2007
Recently on an international flight, the well-dressed, middle-aged man seated beside me was working away on his computer. While we both had laptops, ...
March 05, 2007
Do you know where to go for a free psalm mp3, look up a word in J. G. Vos’ theological dictionary, view the RPCNA calendar (or submit an event for ...
Irene Huizing | March 05, 2007
While it is true that many valuable lessons about life were learned in kindergarten, and while I have learned much about God and His work over the ...
Nancy M. Tischler | March 05, 2007
David Hanson, the pastor at Grace (State College, Pa.) RPC, was an accountant back in the days when, as he says, Pluto was a planet. Accounting is a ...
Lynne Gordon | February 01, 2007
Bloop. A new instant message window pops up on my screen: “What is there for a snack?” “Milk,” I type back, “but hold off on the chips. ...
Karen Carr | February 01, 2007
Reading the genealogies in the Bible, one begins to realize that all the stories are connected. Abraham’s story flows into Isaac’s story, and ...
Michael LeFebvre | February 01, 2007
We who sing the Psalms in America are conscious of our brothers and sisters who sing the Psalms in other branches of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, ...
Dennis J. Prutow | January 01, 2007
A hush fell over the ministry of worship class during the first session. After the preliminaries, I began my first teaching module, titled “Worship ...
Patricia Boyle | January 01, 2007
Hebrews 10:23-25 gives a good guideline for gatherings like Women’s Missionary Fellowship (WMF). Surely one of the best stimulations to love and do ...
Matthew Adamo | January 01, 2007
When I was a child, my family occasionally attended a Lutheran church near my house. We didn’t go often, so I didn’t hear the gospel or come to a ...
Karen Olson | December 01, 2006
“Patty! Patty!” the toddlers chant, peering out the front window in excitement as Patricia Meier, director of Robin’s Nest, walks up the ...
Claudia Britt | December 01, 2006
As we sit outside on a pleasant summer morning, a cool breeze caresses our bare arms. The porch glider sways rhythmically in spite of our combined ...
December 01, 2006
Sculpture It does not avoid the chisel. It blinks a long once, then stares forever without obtrusion or haughty squint. Its chin holds without ...
December 01, 2006
Annunciation The uncreated Word spoke, and all was created. The Lord gave the Word, and all was given— First, your garden home, and every fruit ...
December 01, 2006
Fiction Judged by Norman Carson Honorable Mention “Breaking Bread, Breaking Beans” Claudia Britt Poetry Judged by Leslie Goerner First ...
November 01, 2006
Psalter THE PSALMS FOR SINGING: A 21st Century Edition, Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland, 2004. Reviewed by Rev. Tom Reid. The publication of ...
Grant Van Leuven | November 01, 2006
His first submission was rejected by the publisher. “It was artificial; it didn’t work,” said Pastor Anthony Selvaggio, an adjunct professor of ...
Verne and Shirley Rosenberger | November 01, 2006
Her Story When my husband Lester started having TIAs (small strokes) we visited doctors for about a year before an MRI and CAT scan revealed that he ...
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 ...
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 ...
I recently learned that quite a few people inquire with the RP Witness for practical suggestions on how congregations can find encouragement for ...