One of the major issues, if not THE major issue at the 1984 C.R. Synod, was that of Women in Ecclesiastical Office. After more than a dozen years that this issue has been before the church and after a number of study committee reports, we were to deal with the matter again. This issue provoked […]

  The Synod of 1984 has become history. It was a synod of strong emotions, of procedural maneuvering (or was it, manipulating?), of many challenges to the chair, of numerous roll-call votes, of close decisions, of a number of apologies, both “in house” and public, and of an unprecedented number of “recorded” negative and positive votes. […]

“Orthodoxy and Orthopraxis in the Reformed Community Today” was the theme of a Conference hosted by Redeemer College in Hamilton, Ontario, May 30 to June 1, 1985. The Conference faced the question, ”Is there a shift from understanding Christian truth in terms of doctrine (orthodoxy) to truth as right moral and social action (orthopraxis)?” There […]