Dr. Nola Stephens has joined Covenant’s faculty as an assistant professor of linguistics. Stephens holds a bachelor’s degree in linguistics and Germanic studies from Indiana University in Bloomington and a Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford University. For two years before coming to Covenant, she taught as a visiting assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University. She…
There are forces at work within our culture and our pastoral contexts that cause tension for those seeking to preach grace and human responsibility in sanctification.
Journalists quoted people who knew the family and said that suspect James Holmes was once, as The Los Angeles Times noted, “heavily involved in their local Presbyterian church” in San Diego.
One thing is clear: Post-high school teens are leaving the church because they have failed to be nurtured and established in the faith through a Christ-centered, means-of-grace ministry.
When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) handed down a mandate requiring religious employers to cover contraceptive drugs in their health insurance plans, including drugs that cause abortion, Catholic institutions initially took center stage.
On Wednesday, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the trustees of Wheaton College joined The Catholic University of America in filing a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services.
The PCA’s 40th General Assembly recently answered an amended version of Overture 30 (“Regarding Intinction”) in the affirmative. The overture seeks to revise the “Book of Church Order” (BCO) 58-5, stipulating that “As Christ has instituted the Lord’s Supper in two sacramental actions, the communicants are to eat the bread and drink the cup in…
On June 3, Harbor Presbyterian Church (Chula Vista, Calif.) member Jacob Wukie, 26, learned that he would be heading to London in July to represent the U.S. on its Olympic archery team. Later, byFaith contributor Zoe S. Erler chatted with Wukie about his journey to Olympic recognition and how his faith influences his sport. How…
I’m in Nairobi these days. While I am here I get to preach at New City-Nairobi, which is really a plant of New City St. Louis. Pastor Joe Muutuki worshipped with them under Pastor Barry Henning while Pastor Joe was at Covenant Seminary. I am fascinated how the New City idea has become international. A…
Rev. Robert Fitler, of Sharpsburg, Ga., passed away on June 30, 2012 just days before his 81st birthday. A praise and worship memorial service will be Saturday, July 14 at 2 p.m. at Carriage Lane Presbyterian Church in Peachtree City, Ga. Interment will be in Vicksburg, Miss. He is survived by his wife of 58…