This year’s annual meeting of the Reformed Fellowship was held at the Kelloggsville Christian Reformed Church on October 14. The afternoon session featured an address by Mr. Paul Ingeneri, Director of Education and Evangelism at the Seymour C.R. Church, student at Calvin Seminary and a Fellowship board member, on “The Crucial Role of the Eldership […]
The Old Renewal Eight years ago in 1974 a new magazine appeared, published in Sioux Center, Iowa under the name Renewal. In a concluding editorial in its last (August 18, 1982) issue Rev. B. J. Haan recalls how it was begun “to preserve and promote good Kuyperian Calvinism, also among the Dordt alumni.” Over the […]
On a tour of the provincial parliament building at Victoria, British Columbia, the guide called our attention to two large stone statues at the front entrance. One was of James Douglas, the Scotsman who first (in 1843) established a Hudson’s Bay Company post at the island site of this picturesque city and later was appointed […]
In the August 23 Banner Clayton C. Libolt, whom the 1981 Christian Reformed Church Synod rejected as candidate for the ministry after he had refused in his examination to say that he believed the events mentioned in Genesis were real in the sense that his questioners intended, attempts to correct misinformation concerning himself and […]
The title of this article was the subject of a debate and discussion at the August 10–12 Convention of Christian Schools International and the Association of Christian School Administrators, held this year at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. The subject has been under discussion for some time in the Christian schools’ organization, articles in our last November […]
Church Oligarchy Dr. L. Praamsma in his The Church in the Twentieth Century (p. 216) calls attention to the common criticism that the World Council of Churches is run by a few leaders (an “oligarchy”). More than once the oligarchic structure of the World Council has been criticized. Essentially, the government of this global […]
While the attention of Christian Reformed people and of their fellow Calvinists among conservative Presbyterians may have been drawn to the meetings of the CRC synod and 4 Presbyterian assemblies which met simultaneously at Calvin College at Grand Rapids, Michigan in mid-June assemblies which represented a total of less than a half million Christians—representatives of […]
Twenty Years Behind W.G. De Vries, writing in the March 20 Reformatie cited an article by L. Strengholt in Contact, the periodical of the Christian Reformed women’s organization. The author wrote (freely translated) that a minister of one of the large Dutch denominations, in a catechism class in which he was attempting to acquaint […]
Increasing morale problems of ministers, departures from the ministry and the beginning of a new independent Reformed seminary in Iowa are some of the factors which have focussed the attention of our churches on the question of what kind of training should be given to prepare for service in the gospel ministry. Should It Be […]
Puncturing the Inflated Self A highlight of the Evangelical Press Association’s annual meeting, this year held in Grand Rapids, Mich., was the May 12 address of David Myers entitled, “The Inflated Self: A New Look at Pride.” The Hope College psychology professor observed that we have long been sold the idea (promoted by many […]