Esther Howe | September/October 2024 Issue
Mariam couldn’t take her eyes off her phone, so intent that she didn’t hear me when I spoke to her during coffee time after worship. When she ...
Zakari Ward and Natalie Dohms | January/February 2024 Issue
Christians in the US join a March for Life each January. As Christians and citizens of Canada, we are responsible to remind our own government of the ...
Drew Gordon | November 27, 2023
The North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council (NAPARC) met Nov. 14–16 in Providence, R.I. This 48th annual meeting was hosted by the ...
Harry Metzger | July/August 2023 Issue
To borrow from the opening lines of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” When, on ...
Drew Gordon | January 19, 2023
There’s nothing left standing of the Selma Reformed Presbyterian Church building except a portion of the basement. That’s where three people were ...
Ralph A. Pontier, NAPARC Secretary, and Drew Gordon, RP Witness editor | November 19, 2021
The 46th annual meeting of the North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council (NAPARC) took place Nov. 9-11 at Shiloh Orthodox Presbyterian Church ...
RPW How is the Reformed Presbyterian Church different from the National Presbyterian Church of Chile? Pastor Sánchez In Chile, the Presbyterian ...
Rev. Ron Potter | December 18, 2015
The 41st annual meeting of the North American Presbyterian Reformed Council (NAPARC) was held Nov. 10-12 in Québec City, QC. This year’s meeting ...
January 06, 2014
Recent violence has resulted in the temporary departure of all RPCNA missionaries from South Sudan. Read more about that when the Jan./Feb. issue ...
January 01, 2012
A church gathering in northeastern Nigeria turned deadly Jan. 5, as gunmen attacked Deeper Life Church in the country’s Gombe State, killing six ...
January 01, 2012
Kindergarten through second grade. That’s the grade at which the National Education Association (NEA), the Future of Sex Education Initiative ...
January 01, 2012
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow’s success on the football field hasn’t just gotten the attention of every sportswriter in the country ...
January 01, 2012
On Jan. 10, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Texas law requiring abortionists to show women sonograms of ...
January 01, 2012
By Tiffany Jones Police on Jan. 12 arrested 43 New York City pastors and lay people who were protesting the city’s ban on church use of public ...
January 01, 2012
An analysis of 20 years’ worth of school suspension rates nationwide shows that the greatest influence on boys’ behavior at school is not ...
January 01, 2012
Supreme Court Issues Unanimous Decision in Church Hiring Case By Emily Belz In one of the clearest rulings for religious freedom in years, the U.S. ...
July 01, 2011
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in June that a public school could bar a church from renting its space after hours, while other groups ...
July 01, 2011
A bill sitting in the U.S. House would force faith-based adoption agencies to choose between closing their doors and violating their religious ...
July 01, 2011
Time ran out for “personhood” in the Alabama legislature. Alabama Senate Bill 301 would have declared the personhood of an unborn child. The ...
June 01, 2011
Muslim Extremists Attack Christians in Nigeria, Egypt, Syria Christians in the state of Plateau in Nigeria have been displaced after Muslim ...
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 ...