The CRC Synod was overtured by Classis B.C. North-West to instruct its “World Ministries—CRWRC to discontinue giving aid to CEPAD in Nicaragua.” Grounds: 1. CEPAD appears to be a tool of the communist Sandinista government. 2. CRWRC has inadequate control over how the money given to CEPAD is spent. 3. CEPAD has not given accurate […]

“Liberation Theology,” What is it? During the last twenty years an important phenomenon has overtaken the foreign mission work of the “mainline” denominations in the United States, particularly in their work in Latin America. This phenomenon is the rise of a “liberation theology” which has affected not only protestant missions and churches but has also divided […]

I am an Indian from Nicaragua who was born and lived in that country for many years. I am a citizen of it, but not a Somosista. I am a Christian who received Christ as my personal Savior. Because of the poverty of my country, I only finished high school in a Moravian Christian school. […]

There is a trend in our Christian schools of late that is disturbing and bodes no good for the future of such schools. It is the trend (more often than not a deliberate trend) in CSI schools to get away from any specific reference to the Reformed creeds in the constitution of these schools. It […]

Some time ago someone wrote a letter in the “Voices” column of The Banner, calling attention to the fact that it costs a lot more per student to get one’s theological training at Mid-America Reformed Seminary than it does at Calvin Seminary. And, concluded the writer (predictably), the training one gets at Calvin is thoroughly […]

It is becoming well known that the disease A.I.D.S. is beginning to spread like wildfire in our country, as well as in other parts of the world, and it is, therefore, necessary to take a closer look at it. The Disease The initials of AIDS stand for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and as the name […]

“Vision 21” was the result of a study which was initiated with the good intention of reducing the administrative bureaucracy of the CRC as that now exists (largely) in the Pentagon in Grand Rapids. It wanted to make our ecclesiastical machinery more manageable. And that was a very legitimate and proper goal. Too bad that […]

At a recent conference some pastor friends and I were discussing the state of the church over lunch. One of them remarked: “We have a serious problem of ignorance in the CRC. Our rank and file membership doesn’t know what’s really going on in various areas and institutions of the church.” We all agreed. But […]