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Slow to Anger

The indiscriminate performance of wrath obscures its purpose and robs it of its power.

The experience of anger is not inherently sinful, but we should seek to limit its shelf life. The longer anger lasts, the more dangerous it becomes.

Covenant College

Covenant College Announces Brock-Barnes Center for Leadership

Covenant President Derek Halvorson Serve as Its First Executive Director

“Dr. Halvorson’s credentials as a scholar, a President, a leader, a fundraiser, and a faithful servant of out Lord Jesus Christ make him the ideal candidate to be the first Executive Director of the Brock-Barnes Center for Leadership.”

Division

A Brief History of Political Division Within the Church

And the outside influence of political turmoil

The Presbyterian Church was strongly influenced by the Great Awakening. In important ways, it was the occasion for a serious division in the church.

Church

The Church and Your Neighborhood

If your church closed today, would anyone in the community know the difference?

A fundamental part of being a local church is that it is in fact, local.

From Strangers and Scapegoats to Neighbors and Friends

Embracing the Heart of an In-Christ Identity

One of the high points of my year is attending the Christian Sociological Association’s annual conference. I’ve attended its June meetings — except when disrupted by global pandemics — for almost 25 years. Sociologists, and especially Christian sociologists, are an odd (yet delightful) bunch that look at the world in an unusual way. Over time,…

Economy

Thinking Christianly About the Economy

Our prayers for the economy will be answered only as people find themselves called as God’s image bearers to pursue a healthy economy in their community.

Rejecting the Ways of the Sluggard

Let us work when it’s time to work, rest when it’s time to rest, and make the most of every opportunity.

Let us work when it’s time to work, rest when it’s time to rest, and make the most of every opportunity. In June 2022, the national unemployment rate was just 3.6%. But that figure, encouraging as it sounds, doesn’t tell the whole employment story. Nor does it mean the effects of the “Great Resignation” have…

Giving Rural Ministry a Closer Look

Project for Rural Ministry Equips Churches for Their Specific Contexts

Before moving to Grove City, Pennsylvania, in 2016, Seulgi Byun was a bona fide cosmopolitan. The cities he has called home include London, Boston, Tokyo, Seoul, Melbourne, and Singapore. Grove City, on the other hand, sits 50 miles from the closest city and has a population of roughly 7,800. As Byun, an associate professor of…

beauty

Pursuing Beauty in a Fallen World

By reclaiming the instinct of beauty, our witness in the world grows stronger.

To write about beauty is famously difficult. Definitions tend to fall short; to quote Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart on obscenity, we can’t always say what it is, but we know it when we see it.

Report

ByFaith Report on the 49th General Assembly

The 49th General Assembly was called to order Tuesday evening, June 21. In attendance were 1,634 teaching elders and 751 ruling elders, for a total of 2,385 commissioners.  PCA Stated Clerk Bryan Chapell gave his report to the Assembly. Highlights of that report are given below. John Bise, ruling elder from Providence Presbytery, was elected…

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