MARKINGS ON A LONG JOURNEY WRITINGS OF JOHN J. TIMMERMAN; Rodney J . Mulder and John H. Timmerman, Editors; Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan: 300 pages, $9.95. Reviewed by John Vander Ploeg. Timmerman’s excellence in style, his magnanimous spirit that shines through, his knowledgeable comments in the field of literature, and his healthy Christian […]
Letters to Barbara: a Novel by Glenn Meeter. 263 pages, 1981. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. $12.95. Reviewed by John Vander Ploeg. Once again to spend a few hours in the town of Lansing (Illinois), to visit once more in the home of Glenn Meeter’s grandparents, and also once again to be at the church […]
Will there be a new Reformed Seminary? Needless to say, only God knows for sure. All that we know for sure is that eight CRC ministers in northwest Iowa have voiced their conviction of the urgent need for such a seminary, that at a meeting in Chicago on April 21 it was decided to proceed […]
Rev. Neal Punt is pastor of the Evergreen Park Christian Reformed Church, Evergreen Park, Illinois. Recently (1980) he authored a 169 page book published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Unconditional Good News with the subtitle, Toward an Understanding of Biblical Universalism ($6.95). By request, I am addressing myself to an evaluation […]
During our pastorate at Lansing, Illinois in the Chicago vicinity we regularly read The Chicago Daily News, one of the attractions of which was the interesting cartoons by the well-known Vaughn Shoemaker. Year after year in the Christmas issue one of Shoemaker’s early cartoons would be repeated regularly. It depicted a plain little cattle shed, […]
Reprobation and Boer’s Gravamen Dr. Harry Boer submitted to the 1977 CRC Synod a gravamen in which at the outset he states: “I submit herewith for synodical examination and adjudication a gravamen against the Reformed doctrine of reprobation as taught notably in the Canons of Dort, Chapter I, Article 6 and Chapter I, Article 15 […]
Reprobation – off hand one would hardly call this a pleasant or a delightful subject. There is something so awesome about this that we may shrink from any contemplation of it! Election – yes, we glory in that. But reprobation? By nature we may say, perish the thought! But here too, as so often, we err […]
A HANDBOOK OF CRC ISSUES 1968–1978; 600 pages; published by Association of Christian Reformed Laymen, P. O. Box 1303, Grand Rapids, Mich. 49501; $7.95. Reviewed by Rev. John Vander Ploeg. By all means don’t buy or read this book or even get anywhere near it, unless you are willing to be disturbed and possibly also stung […]
Some months ago my editorial on “Desideratum A United Reformed Church” called forth a measure of response including a misunderstanding which, in fairness to honestly disturbed ministers in the CRC, should be set straight. Writing about disturbing developments in the CRC, one correspondent states: “There are still a goodly number of pastors who arc very unhappy […]
Not every meeting of the Board of Reformed Fellowship, Inc., is as encouraging and exciting as last month‘s meeting on February 4. New members are being received regularly and, of course, there are also some cancellations from time to time. But try to imagine our elation when at last month’s meeting as many as 107 […]