I have just read another of Rev. Clarence Boomsma’s discerning articles in The Banner on “The CRC—What Is Happening to Us?” With good reason the writer, who served as president of the CRC Synod of 1972, is being commended for what he has to say. Like an experienced and competent physician or surgeon, Rev. Boomsma […]
It’s more than time to return to a consideration of this subject that was introduced in an editorial in the October issue with a promise to continue the matter the following month. The reason for the delay is that other matters were allowed to have the right of way. If a bit of Bobbie Burns’ […]
The dilemma is real, not imaginary. Also in the Christian Reformed Church. Anyone who denies this is either deliberately blind or pathetically uninformed. Changes are introduced, subtly and gradually; and that makes them so dangerous. Toss a frog in a tub of hot water and it is said he will jump out in a flash. […]
Good Friday and Easter are so precious to observe. Not really because they mark the advent of Spring. Because flowers, the birds, Easter feasting and finery are here today and gone tomorrow. But why then? Because the Cross and the Empty Tomb are the antidote to fear. Good Friday and Easter elicit and kindle faith […]
In view of the recent CRC-RCA Get-together in Holland, Michigan and the proposals for further closer relations between the Christian Reformed Church and the Reformed Church in America, it was decided to present a special and enlarged issue of THE OUTLOOK for February-March in an attempt to give some pertinent and necessary information about this […]
First, an acknowledgement. I am indebted to David Bendin (Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)—not for a solution to the problem, but rather for statistics on today’s runaway rate of divorce. Obviously, Mr. Bendin is still at a loss concerning the solution as the concluding sentence of his article suggests; “Until a real solution can be found the […]
The small sign on the rather austere desk held my eyes each time our interview lagged. For some reason it seemed as though the meaning should have been obvious—yet an explanation was needed. Seated behind the desk was Mr. Enaab, public information officer for UNWRA, the United Nations Works and Relief Agency. We had come […]
To merely look and fail to really see . . . That’s the awful tragedy of it all—if we are content, whenever the calendar calls for it once again, to observe the Christian holidays by taking another look at Jesus in a manger, on a cross, in and out of the tomb, and ascending to […]
That’s how Jesus replied to questions, problems, and difficulties that were agitating the church in His day. “Have ye not read?” He would ask, and then go on to quote a relevant passage of Scripture to settle the matter in hand once and for all. In other words, if the Pharisees and the Sadducees, the […]
