A Review of the Report on Church Structure – Vision 21 A. Background Synod of 1983 agreed with Classis Hudson that it would be in order to “study the organizational structure of the Christian Reformed Church, including all denominational boards and agencies.” Synod referred the matter to the Synodical Interim Committee. This body appointed a […]
The following will not win Journey any friends in some quarters. They will say that it is bad enough to publicize such events, much less to make light of them. On the other hand, we wonder when such people are going to be more concerned about the “dirt” than the discoverer! We’re under no illusions. […]
Some time last August the long arm of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, reached across the Atlantic and tapped on the shoulder of a professor in Moral Theology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. The professor in question, Charles Curran, an ordained priest […]
“Elijah climbed to the top of Mt. Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees. ‘Go and look towards the sea’ he said. Seven times Elijah said, ‘Go back.’ The seventh time the servant reported, ‘A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea’” (I Kings 12:42–44). He […]
Matthew 18, like Galatians 3:28, is a passage that is often appealed to, but in more cases than not, the appeal is misplaced because the text is misapplied. Strange how this continues to take place even though the fallacy has been pointed out time and again. When we want to use the Bible for our own […]
THE FOURTH DAY, By Howard J. Van Till. Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans, 1986, 286 pages, paperbound. Reviewed by Lester DeKoster. The Fourth Day is an exercise in short-changing the Bible—and in covering up the biblical accounts which contradict the fraud. This book proclaims that the whole cosmos began with a “big bang” occurring fifteen […]
Although most of us have lived in communities that used the name “Christian Reformed” for almost a century, our very familiarity with it is evidently helping to make us uncertain enough about what it is supposed to mean to suggest that we take a fresh look at its meaning.* The recent publication of two rather […]