“Are you going to write again about that ‘United Reformed Church’ idea and the response you received. In words to this affect someone recently prompted me to write on this subject again. Did this questioner speak for many other CRC readers of the editorial as well as himself? Would that it were so! I believe that be […]
In the training of children, there is often a one-sided emphasis on love. Is it true that if children are sufficiently loved they will automatically obey their parents? This common assumption brings trouble for it lets the children decide whether or not they will obey their parents. We must never forget that children are born […]
The public schools of the U.S. are under fire! But, why? Do you recognize the apathy and disorder of this classroom in your school? I hope not. “Morning at a West Coast high schooL The first-period bell rings, barely audible above the classroom din. ‘O.K., everybody settle down,’ says the soft-spoken teacher of the course […]
Although the relationship between neighboring churches becomes more complicated than it used to be because of increasing differences of faith and practice between them, Rev. Watson Groen’s sharp observations about the situation in our churches’ center forty-seven years ago may interest our readers and many of his suggestions for correction are still valid. The city […]
That the imprecations of the wicked by the godly in Scripture present a problem to the Christian has been a common observation, most recently made by Rev. Neal Plantinga in Today, January 25 and 26. First impressions are often deceiving, however, and we do well to take another, more careful look at that which at […]
It happens time and again. In their zeal to promote the cause of women in ecclesiastical office, the proponents of this view often fall for argumentation that is weak and sensational, with little apparent regard for sound scriptural interpretation and exegesis. Such arguments may appear plausible to those who arc not given to thinking, but […]
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for] am not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God. John 20:17 Who in the church does not know Mary Magdalene? Who is not acquainted with […]
Information and advice of someone who has traversed an unfamiliar road can be extremely helpful to those who follow. At one point in our last summer’s vacation we left the highway near the summit of Colorado’s La Veta Pass and despite threatening weather drove many miles over a back road unmarked on many of the […]
A good laugh can be a tonic. Jokes can be tension breakers. Sometimes people laugh when they don‘t know what else to do. Sometimes they laugh when they are embarrassed. Sometimes a laugh is a cover-up. Sometimes people laugh when they wish to belittle others. Have Worldly Amusements Become a Joke? Recently at a public […]
During the last year or two, especially since the execution of Gary Gilmore, the first murderer to be executed in the United States in a decade, one state after another has given renewed attention to the subject of capital punishment. After the Supreme Court saw fit to outlaw most of the laws prescribing a death […]