The High Calling

Feb 17, 2011

A Rosary for a Baptist

I grew up Baptist, so the only thing I knew about rosaries was that Catholics used them to pray memorized prayers, like the Hail Mary....

Covenant Stories: Downward Spiral

by Gordon Atkinson

When a church begins to lose members it can begin a downward spiral that feeds on itself, much like a falling economy. Often there is some kind of traumatic event that wounds the community - a disillusioning scandal, a large exodus of people because of some grievance, or a neighborhood that transitions faster than the church can adapt....

The Covenant Stories: Introduction

by Gordon Atkinson

We were looking for a progressive-thinking Baptist church that would be supportive of women in the ministry. It’s hard to believe, but in the mid-1980s, that kind of Baptist church was hard to find. A friend told us about Covenant Baptist Church, a “different kind of church” that was currently the only Baptist church in the world meeting in a bar....