Finding Hope in Fearful Times
28. February 2022
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 ...
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Celebrating Two Centuries
10. November 2021
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 ...
Rediscover Our American Covenant
10. November 2021
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 ...
Pass the Pizza!
08. September 2021
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 ...
Walk Alongside Your Pastor’s Family
08. September 2021
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 ...
A Breath of Fresh Air
14. May 2021
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 ...
Pastors on the Brink
12. May 2021
“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 ...
Loving God with the Heart—and Mind
05. March 2021
Reformed Presbyterians are often taught to think kingdom. The church, from its Scottish roots, has emphasized the doctrine of Christ’s kingship as ...
The Christian and the COVID Vaccine
08. January 2021
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 ...
A New Garden in Old, Rich Soil
08. January 2021
“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
08. January 2021
My full-time job is saving babies from abortion. It sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Picture it: boldly standing outside of Planned Parenthood and ...
A Long Obedience in the Same Pastorate
18. November 2020
While preparing the interview with Bob McFarland about his 60 years in various ministry roles, we thought of one of his colleagues in Midwest ...
Putting the Gospel Where People Can Reach It
18. November 2020
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 ...
The RP Church and the 1918 Pandemic
14. September 2020
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)
14. September 2020
In January 1919, my great-grandfather Edwin Howe was finishing his stay at a sanitorium for tuberculosis patients when the Spanish Flu swept through ...
Prejudice from One RP’s Perspective
13. July 2020
Pastor Howe asked me to share some of my own experiences as an African-American and my thoughts on the recent events relating to the death of George ...
Ridgefield Park RPC and COVID-19
13. July 2020
As of May 26, Bergen County, N.J., has had 1,529 deaths due to COVID-19, and New York City, only seven miles away, has had 16,410. All of us have lost ...
It’s Hard to Speak Up—But This Is My Life
13. July 2020
We live in a world that makes it incredibly hard, and at the same time far too easy, to share an opinion on social media. I am more likely to die ...
An International Quest for Truth
14. May 2020
When Mandy and I left France in late 2019 with our one-year-old son Caleb, our dog, and five suitcases, we could never have imagined what lay ahead. ...
Christ-Centered Voting
18. March 2020
At the 188th Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, held at Geneva College, on June 11–14, 2019, this voting guide was put ...