Abiding in Jesus
Bryan Owen
In my first post for Covenant back in 2015, I noted how much I hated attending church as a child and how that changed over time due to immersion in the eucharistic liturgy. It’s a fairly common ex... Read More...
Building for Humans: A Primer on Christian Architecture
By Stewart Clem
How do we know that God cares about architecture? Perhaps the clearest answer is found in the book of Exodus. In fact, most of the second half of the book consists of the Lord’s instructions ... Read More...
Holy Theatre, Holy Worship
By John Stroyan
In the earliest days of human expression and communication, religion and art were integrally related, indeed inseparable in the seeking, finding, and expressing of meaning. Every human being, made in the image of the Creator God, is made to ... Read More...
What Roy Gets About Worship
By Mark Michael
On that sweltering morning last July when we held our first service of pandemic-season public worship at Saint Francis, Potomac, Roy was there. There was no vaccine, and lots we didn’t know y... Read More...
“Children, Keep Yourselves from Idols”
Idolatry
By Stephen E. Fowl
Baylor University Press 2019. Pp. 180 $34.95.
Review by Anthony Petrotta
Professor Fowl's argument is clear and concise: idolatry is alive and well, just as it was in the day... Read More...
Being Distracted by the Right Things
By Sam Keyes
Three times now in an introductory course on sacraments and liturgy, I’ve asked students to reflect on a playlist of Church music that I assembled for them. To do such a thing at all challenges many of their assumptions, making an implicit clai... Read More...
This All Saints’ Day, Return to In-Person Worship
By Charles Bennison
At St. Luke’s, Atlanta, three decades ago, the 11 a.m. Sunday Eucharist had a largely-suburban television audience of 25,000, with 700 actually gathered at the church. Many of these in-pe... Read More...
The Trials of Returning to Worship
By Shirley O’Shea
It had been more than five months since I had entered a sanctuary when I returned to church. Before the coronavirus pandemic necessitated the suspension of worship services, I would drive 2... Read More...