HUNGER FOR GOD’S WORD IN POLAND An article in the Bible Society Record (Feb., 1983) features a large picture of a long line of people, three and four wide, stretching out of sight down the block, waiting to receive Bibles at the Bible House in Warsaw. According to the article in 1982 the Bible […]

PROHIBITING INFANTICIDE Moody Monthly for October, 1982, reports that a bill has been introduced in Congress making it a federal crime for any hospital to deny medical treatment to a handicapped infant. This legislation was prompted by the case of “Infant Doe” in Bloomington, Indiana, in which a baby born with a blocked esophagus and […]

SCIENCE AND PSEUDOSCIENCE is the title of an article in The Reformed Journal for November, 1982, by Richard H. Buhe. He points out that “pseudoscience is counterfeit science,” that sounds like true science, but lacks the integrity of authentic science. He shows that it often has a great appeal to Christians when it claims to […]

POLICE LOCK A BAPTIST CHURCH Christianity Today (November 12, 1982) has an interesting article about the struggle of the Faith Baptist Church of Louisville, Nebraska. to keep its school going in the face of state opposition. This case has attracted national attention. The State insists on licensing such schools and requires them to have state […]

GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE Little Grove City College of Pennsylvania has been struggling for five years against the U.S. Department of Education. According to Christian Herald of October 1982, the college lost a decision in a federal court of appeals. The court ruled that although the college accepts no government funding, it is a recipient of federal […]

MRS. O’HAIR TAKES AIM. From time to time there are reports about the activities of this archatheist that later prove to be exaggerated or untrue, but Moody Monthly (September, 1982) reports she is still active in combatting religion in our national life. She has targeted the chaplaincy programs of the military services for her latest […]

FOR WHOM AND TO WHOM DOES A SYNOD SPEAK? That is the important question addressed by Dr. K. Runia in an article in Centraal Weekblad van de Gereformeerde Kerken and reported by Rev. Anthony De Jager in De Wachter of 22 June, 1982. Like many of the denominations in America, the Gereformeerde Kerken in the […]

What has Wheaton to do with Jerusalem? That is the interesting title of an article in The Reformed Journal for May, 1982, by Mark A. Noll, a member of the history department at Wheaton College. The subtitle is “lessons from evangelicals for the Reformed.” The author professes great admiration for the Reformed Churches and displays […]

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON BIBLICAL INERRANCY. Under the sponsorship of this organization a Congress On The Bible was held in San Diego, California in March. The report on this meeting in the April9, 1982, Christianity Today informs us that some 2,500 attended. The “event was designed to infuse the evangelical movement with renewed enthusiasm for the […]

THE GREYING OF THE CRC. One of the improvements in the 1982 Year book of the CRC is listing the number of professing and non–professing members under the statistics of the individual churches. Perusing the new Yearbook I was struck by the fact that in many of the Canadian congregations these numbers are almost equal, […]