Welcome to Covenant!

Covenant is not a blog; it’s a community of Christians striving to strengthen and renew the evangelical and catholic center of Anglicanism, which, for most, but not all, of us, means striving to fulfill that vocation within The Episcopal Church.

The Covenant community is about being and becoming the Church. It’s about Immanuel - “God with us.” It’s about about knowing and participating in the life of the immanent God we encounter in Jesus Christ. It is therefore about holy friendships.  We at Covenant want to connect with the triune God, with each other, and with the localities in which we live through rich and meaningful relationships.

These forums are about developing bonds of affection. We’ll talk about worship, theology, mission, and dig into Scripture together, but our purpose is to nurture the divine koinonia that Christ commissioned us to embody. We’ll sometimes take a quite serious tone appropriate to the material we discuss, but our aim is always fellowship.  A focus on fellowship can help to bring down perceived or actual barriers that obstruct life-giving relationships. God wants us to relax and have fun so that our hearts will be open to one another. And that’s part of our vocation as Israel. When we who are many become one, others encounter Christ in us!

Our hope and expectation is that these Covenant forums will provide opportunities to form holy friendships. We want to be led by God to form relationships through which we are blessed and through which we become a blessing to others. Sometimes God will connect us with people that have the same ministry or shared interests. Sometimes we connect with people because they complement us through their differences. Our expectation is that the Covenant forums offer opportunities to get to know people with whom we can connect in deep and meaningful relationships, even at great distances.

We want to make heart-connections. When we dialogue with people on these forums, we want to get beyond shallow discussion and have conversations about things that we are passionate about. We want to ask questions that pull at the dreams and desires that we have for God. We want to ask questions that require more than a yes or no answer. We have specific questions about our faith, and its implications for our family, our joys, and our sorrows. The covenantal life to which Christ calls us makes these risky questions possible without fear of rejection.  We want this to be a safe place for all to practice the habits of that covenantal life.

So welcome to Covenant!  We look forward to walking with you in our journey with and towards Christ.

Blessings to you always,
Craig