Drew Gordon | November/December 2024 Issue
The deck of my house is perhaps 12 feet from my neighbors’ deck. Often, when sitting on my deck or taking my dog out for a run, I’d glimpse an old ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2024 Issue
They say you should never discuss religion or politics, but it’s hard to determine where the adage started. You don’t have to be a sage to ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2024 Issue
Three things stand out about this year’s RPCNA Synod, and they are all the same thing. Synod has a few purposes, but a basic one is serving as ...
Drew Gordon | May/June 2024 Issue
The Amtrak train from Pittsburgh ends in the middle of Manhattan (the one in New York). Then you rise one level from your train into the center of a ...
Drew Gordon | March/April 2024 Issue
My mother-in-law, Nancy Hutmire, was known for her humor. People who met her just once or who knew her well frequently reminded us. Typically it was ...
Drew Gordon | January/February 2024 Issue
Once it was common to see the bumper sticker, “Abortion is not health care.” But over time, pro-abortion forces have turned the tables on ...
Drew Gordon | November/December 2023 Issue
When you are on a business trip, harried by transfers from planes to trains to automobiles, you try to get the best sleep you can in a strange bed in ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2023 Issue
It’s a question every believer has considered if they’ve lived long enough to ponder the next generation: How can we know that the faith will be ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2023 Issue
It’s dangerous to daydream at Synod. If you miss a sentence here or there, you can lose track of the flow of discussion or even be thinking of the ...
Drew Gordon | May/June 2023 Issue
Just after the caveman days of the cell phone, when few people owned them and they resembled small bricks, I was given a new kind of phone to beta ...
Drew Gordon | March/April 2023 Issue
For those who came to worship in Jerusalem, even the walls were special. The temple building was beloved. What made the place special was the presence ...
Drew Gordon | January/February 2023 Issue
Just three miles off the interstate was a town that time forgot. It looked like a place I might have walked in my childhood. I was returning from the ...
Drew Gordon | November/December 2022 Issue
When you have an Elisha with you, it’s easier to forget Elijah. Perhaps that’s an odd thought to cross one’s mind when reading the Minutes of ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2022 Issue
I see some of my neighbors on social media more than I see them in person. That’s not entirely an incriminating statement, as we’ve all been more ...
Drew Gordon | July/August 2022 Issue
In Feb. 2020 I booked flights for Europe with expectancy. I had been given the privilege of addressing the Irish RP Church synod and the Scottish RP ...
Drew Gordon | May/June 2022 Issue
Whether the narrative is George Orwell’s 1984 or Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the proverb reads the same: Lying is hard work. Think about the vast ...
Drew Gordon | March/April 2022 Issue
Reformed Presbyterians live longer. They live better. The RPCNA pension board knows this. They learned long ago that they could not calculate pension ...
Drew Gordon | January/February 2022 Issue
My youngest brother is building a house in South Carolina for his family and our father to live in. Under normal conditions, they would already be ...
Drew Gordon | November/December 2021 Issue
The RP Church in Canada was the Witness cover story in Nov. 1988. There had been just two RP congregations in Canada in the decades prior to 1980, ...
Drew Gordon | September/October 2021 Issue
On Aug. 13, one teenage girl’s album surpassed another teenage girl’s album atop Ireland’s pop music charts. While that won’t register a blip ...
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 ...