It was Thursday evening, January 11. The chimes of a nearby chapel had just tolled eight bells. There was a mood of muffled excitement as the family gathered to watch “The Waltons.” Tonight’s film was intriguing because it had been advertised as one highlighting the creation-evolution conflict. Mom and Dad were expecting a resounding vindication […]
May all Christians everywhere break the deadly silence that is allowing the world to dictate to God—crushing out the future generations! “Abortion” has prime time in the news today, Legislators struggle with demands for liberalized laws on it. “Women’s Lib” carries on a vigorous and noisy crusade for a woman’s “right to have a baby […]
Miss Johanna Timmer, editor of REFORMED WOMEN SPEAK, has solicited this article from Mrs. Laurie Vanden Heuvel, wife of Rev. Thomas C. Vanden Heuvel, pastor of the Central Avenue Christian Reformed Church of Holland, Michigan. If we were to select two dominant themes of discussion in the world and the church today, no doubt the […]
“Happiness is . . .” the craving of every human heart currently or formerly alive. “Happiness is . . .” something that everyone seeks and very few find. “Happiness is . . .” according to the advertisers, everything from “razor blades that give a s-m-o-o-t-h-e-r shave” to toothpaste producing greater “sex appeal” to detergent that […]
The following was delivered for a class at Calvin College by Laurie Vanden Heuvel, wife of Rev. Thomas C. Vanden Heuvel, pastor of the Central Avenue Christian Reformed Church in Holland, Michigan. The Calvin class was taking a course in “Radical Religion,” a course for the consideration of various “radical” movements such as: speaking in […]
A REPORT AND REACTION TO PROFESSOR HUGH KOOP’S LECTURE “The Church Goes Underground” On Monday evening, March 9, 1970, the Reverend Hugh A. Koops, an ordained Christian Reformed minister serving as a teacher in Western Theological Seminary, Holland, Michigan, spoke to a public meeting held in the Calvin Theological Seminary building, Grand Rapids, under auspices […]
Editors, TORCH AND TRUMPET Grand Rapids, Michigan Dear Brethren: A hearty “thank you” to Dr. Maatman for his excellent article in the February issue of TORCH AND TRUMPET, “Can the Bible Contain Scientific Facts?” His development of the absence of any peripheral matters in the Bible is very helpful. There is however, one statement which […]
“Law and order” was the presidential campaign cry of 1968—and little wonder. As we review the varied spectrum of the events of 1968, we see a year of violence, riot, assassination, hate, war and student rebellions. It is an undebatable fact that there is in our day a wide disregard for law and a consequent […]
Relevance! This is the battle cry of many today. “Anything old is bad; anything new is good,” so they say. Consequently, there is a breakdown in morals such as the world has never before witnessed. “New Morality” is the sophisticated term applied to age-old SIN. The Bible has been attacked to the point where it […]
June 14, 1968 Editor, TORCH AND TRUMPET Dear Brother: I want to thank the Rev. and Mrs. Van Groningen for their comments on my article published in the February issue of the TORCH AND TRUMPET, I am in complete sympathy with two of the ideas expressed, the first being that seminary students would profit tremendously […]