By Kelly Wilson
Church attendance is in decline. This has given birth to many articles and think pieces exploring why churches are shrinking, and has prompted many churches to increase their efforts at evang... Read More...
By John Mason Lock
Our family devotions include a practice that we’ve been using for almost a decade. In sharing it here, I do not mean to imply that it should be universal. Among its other qualities, surely... Read More...
By Jeff Boldt
My wife and I recently moved our four kids to Egypt, where I now work for the bishop in the Alexandria School of Theology. I’m not a complete stranger to North Africa and the Middle East. I’ve ... Read More...
The Anglican Communion's unity has been tendentious for some time, and recent developments render it even more tenuous. In the coming weeks, Covenant will be publishing essays more directly related to our prese... Read More...
By Molly Jane Layton
The phone read 4:15 a.m. as my alarm roused me from a light sleep. My worry about not hearing it was unfounded; excitement for the morning’s events kept me from slumbering too deeply. Cl... Read More...
By Christopher Yoder
And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan;
and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
— Mark 1:13
In Maurice Sendak’s delightful children’s... Read More...
By Paul D. Wheatley
Life lived on this side of eternity is beset with an awareness of its finitude. We live with a quiet sense of life’s fragility. From the hushed moments at grandmother’s bedside, to youthf... Read More...
By Len Freeman
crosses on crosses on
crosses on crosses
on crosses on crosses to
preternal forces
to say that it mattered and
mattered and matters
to maker and whittler
and gluer and hanger
who wandere... Read More...