Richard Gamble | September/October 2022 Issue
Contemporary political discourse has devolved into nothing short of shouting matches. He who has the loudest voice wins. There is little honest ...
Russ Pulliam | July/August 2022 Issue
Just 24 years old, Luke Hart is supervising older men in a fast-growing custom furniture factory in Indianapolis. Some call him Brother Luke. Nobody ...
George Wright | July/August 2022 Issue
I am an elder in the Ballyclare Reformed Presbyterian Church, which is in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Ballyclare is 13 miles from Belfast, the ...
Taylor Ramsey | May/June 2022 Issue
Barely able to keep the tears from my eyes, I walked down the church aisle, flowers in hand. My white train swished behind me. In just a few short ...
William Edgar | March/April 2022 Issue
Out of nowhere, as far as I knew, Harold appeared. For two years my congregation had tried calling one “star” after another. None were interested ...
Rich Holdeman | March/April 2022 Issue
The Challenge of Infertility Very few Christian couples preparing for marriage expect to have trouble conceiving and bearing children. Often in ...
J.K. Wall | March/April 2022 Issue
Something has changed. As recently as 2002, when a U.S. court in San Francisco declared the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance ...
Abigail Archer, Maggie Becker, and Rich Holdeman | November/December 2021 Issue
On the second weekend in August, a group of over 250 people gathered from all over the United States, and even from other countries, in a small town ...
David Whitla | November/December 2021 Issue
It is not often that the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America captures the news headlines. But for the week of May 24–June 1, 1871, the ...
Lydia Stowe | September/October 2021 Issue
Hospitality is a means of grace, a way to extend warm generosity to fellow believers, a privilege and duty of all believers—and a terrifying concept ...
Alicia Hemphill and Esther Howe | September/October 2021 Issue
Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of articles about pastors and families. October is Pastor Appreciation Month, and it’s a great time ...
Audrey McMahan | May/June 2021 Issue
While most events have been canceled recently, the youth of the Presbytery of the Alleghenies (POA) enjoyed their first retreat in over a year. Much ...
An RP Pastor's Wife | May/June 2021 Issue
“Did you think the pastorate was going to be this hard?” My husband and I were lunching at the RP International Conference with another pastor ...
Russ Pulliam | March/April 2021 Issue
Reformed Presbyterians are often taught to think kingdom. The church, from its Scottish roots, has emphasized the doctrine of Christ’s kingship as ...
Rich Holdeman | January/February 2021 Issue
In the coming days, believers in all parts of the world are going to be faced with the question of whether or not to receive a vaccine against the ...
Mark Brown | January/February 2021 Issue
“Selma, Alabama? You can’t go there. They kill black people there!” That was the sincerely concerned response of a family member upon ...
Mikayla Covington | January/February 2021 Issue
My full-time job is saving babies from abortion. It sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Picture it: boldly standing outside of Planned Parenthood and ...
Nathaniel Pockras | November/December 2020 Issue
While preparing the interview with Bob McFarland about his 60 years in various ministry roles, we thought of one of his colleagues in Midwest ...
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 ...
Nathaniel Pockras | September/October 2020 Issue
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 ...
Location: Colorado Springs, Colo. Presbytery: Midwest Organization: 1981 Membership: 101 communicant; 56 baptized Pastor: Ed Blackwood Website: ...
This article is an excerpt from chapter 5 of God Breathed: Connecting through Scripture to God, Others, the Natural World, and Yourself. I will never ...
In the early years of the Witness, it was published weekly, and correspondents reported many small events in their congregations. Here are some news ...
Empowered Witness: Politics, Culture, and the Spiritual Mission of the Church Dr. Alan D. Strange | Crossway, 2024, 149 pages, $17.99 | Reviewed by ...