The three articles on THE CRISIS IN DOCTRINE, THE CRISIS IN MORALS, and THE CRISIS IN EDUCATION were given as addresses in a panel discussion at the recent annual meeting of the Reformed Fellowship. Participating in the panel were: Rev. John H. Piersma, pastor of the Bethany Christian Reformed Church of South Holland, Illinois; Dr. […]
Fellow students: For 340 of you this is a new experience. For the other 600 it is to some “old hat,” to others “more of the same,” to some the signal which starts the mad race, to others—and we hope a majority—the call to the serious yet exciting challenge of Christian higher education at Dordt […]
Approximately three years ago a small group of men in Iowa came together to talk about the possibility of forming a Christian Action organization in the States. As was often characteristic of significant Christian movements in history, there flowed out of this little meeting a gradually widening river of activity. It is truly amazing that […]
That there is a crisis in the church cannot be denied or ignored. Its character, however, is not easily assessed. Clarity on the fundamental issues is important. One speaks of crisis only when the fundamentals are attacked. “If the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do?” Psalm 11. Today many of God’s people are […]
Never in the history of mankind was the urgency of Christian education more pronounced. Taylor in his book, published last year, The Christian Philosophy of Law, Politics and the State puts it this way. “The battle for the minds of future generations of Americans, Britons and Canadians will be won or lost in the schools, and […]
SCHOOL UNIFORMS?…YES Occasionally voices are heard from among our Christian School supporters mildly suggesting the possibility of having the students, especially the girls, wear uniforms. These voices are seldom bold or authoritative, rather they set forth their opinion timidly, even apologetically. Perhaps to some the word “uniform” sounds too rigid, too militaristic. Perhaps their attitude stems from […]
Having considered in previous articles (cf. Torch and Trumpet, vol. II, nos. 5, 6) the significance of a growing interest in the Christian junior college movement together with the growing need for such institutions, we now turn to the problem of organizational and administrative arrangement. Perhaps some of our readers are awaiting in this series an […]
The growing interest in the Christian junior college movement finds its basic explanation in the growing need for Christian higher education. To discuss this need is our aim in this article. That there is such need is being questioned by no one. The issue that has come up for debate recently is whether or not […]
The late Dr. R. L. Haan, a highly-respected Christian Reformed pastor, was closely associated with the Christian junior college movement especially during the closing years of his ministry at Hull, Iowa. Out of his interest in and activity in behalf of such an educational institution he once ventured to prophesy that in the not-too-distant future a […]