The Community. Founded in South Bend in 1971, the ecumenical People of Praise has 1,700 members in 22 cities in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean.

Each group of covenant communities, including others like the Sword of the Spirit and the Word of God, has a slightly different character. Some later developed reputations for being excessively ...

Notre Dame professor Adrian J. Reimers, a former member, wrote a critique of People of Praise (and another covenant group called Sword of the Spirit) about what he called “the abuse of authority ...

In college I took 19 hours of Spanish, after completing two years of Spanish in high school. Can I speak Spanish now? No. I can pick out words here and ...

Some Catholic charismatics express their faith by belonging to what’s called a “covenant community.” Barrett belongs to one such group, People of Praise Christian Community. People of Praise ...

Founded in 1993, Sword of the Spirit is a part of The Church of the Living God International Inc., an organization of Pentecostal churches that believe in the Trinity: God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost.

Applying the wisdom of Darwin and de Tocqueville to the Golden Calf story to understand that united we stand (Vayakhel) ...