Being a Christian involves being a member of the Church. The Church, and the local congregation as a concrete manifestation of the Church. is inseparable from Christianity. The Savior once said that no one can approach the Father except through the Son. In the Scriptures God’s Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, is presented as the Head […]
Saturday, June 16, may have been a day of minor significance for many. However, not so for the some forty men, from various sections of Canada and of various Reformed denominations who made their way to the Annette Street Christian Reformed Church in Toronto. This day will be remembered by them and others, for then and […]
“Did Luther hatch the egg which Erasmus laid?” This question is an old favorite of history examiners who in school and college endeavor to confront their students with the necessity of relating the Renaissance and the Reformation. The question, however, is not exactly objective for it implies that the Reformation was nothing more than an extension of the […]
The Taft-Hartley labor law which presently controls most of the labor relations in our nation contains within it the following declaration: “It shall be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization or its agents to engage in, or to induce or encourage the employees of any employer to engage in a strike or a concerted refusal […]
The Reformed Review During the past eight years the faculty of Western Seminary at Holland, Michigan, has issued a small quarterly bulletin. With the opening of a fine new seminary building, the faculty decided “to signalize this happy event” by improving their periodical. Since last October The Western Seminary Bulletin has appeared in a new format under the […]
The practice of artificial insemination may be approached from various angles. It has a medical or biological aspect. Then again it raises legal questions, and the act itself as well as the status of the child thus born must be considered. In addition there certainly is it religious or ethical side to the subject and one must ask […]
Berkhout Challenges To the Editors of “torch and trumpet”: Gentlemen: I read with interest the articles of the Rev. Philip E. Hughes, in several issues of the Torch and Trumpet, on “Evolutionary Dogma and Christian Theology.” Now that they are completed may I, as one of your readers, reflect upon them? Thank you for the space. […]
June 5–8 were busy days on the Campus of Calvin College. Some 229 ministers registered for the annual Institute. The alertness of many consistories in encouraging their pastors to attend helped to pack the lecture hall. An ambitious program had been arranged by an enterprising committee under the spirited leadership of Rev. J. Hasper, pastor of […]
Protestant Nurture – An Introduction to Christian Education HARRY C. MUNRO (Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1956, 270 pp.) The author of this book comes to grips with some fundamental problems in Christian education today. And he does it in a refreshing, stimulating way. In a lucid and easy-flowing style he develops his views with […]