Staurseth, Phil

Rev. Philip Staurseth served as pastor to the Ravenswood Evangelical Covenant Church in Chicago from 2008 to 2022.

Something that doesn’t love a wall (Fall/Winter 2014)

Robert Frost, the celebrated American poet, penned these words a hundred years ago in his poem, “Mending Wall.”

A parishioner’s letter to Nils Lund (Fall/Winter 2023-2024)

In 1922, 101 years ago this past summer, at the age of 37, Reverend Nils W. Lund (1885-1954) left the church he pastored in Boston for an appointment at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago. During his time at the Covenant Church’s seminary he would become known as a teacher, dean, renowned scholar, thoughtful theologian, and, notably, an innovative writer and biblical thinker. Before all this, however, he was distinguished more plainly in his Swedish immigrant parish as “Pastor Lund.” On the day of his farewell service from his church, Paul Anderson of Arlington, Massachusetts, a parishioner and friend, wrote Pastor Nils a letter that fondly recalled his years of ministry.