This year is a very important election year in our nation and states . This year more than any previous election year, voters are going to have to weigh their spiritual and moral values when pulling those levers to vote for candidates. There are many issues in this year’s campaigns economics, foreign policy, and others. […]

The Christian Reformed Church has been dealing with the subject of women in ecclesiastical office for eleven years. This year, the synod is being presented with a fifth and we may hope, last study committee report regarding the subject. The report consists of three sections: Majority report and recommendations, Minority Report I and its recommendations, […]

Headship The understanding of the Biblical teaching on headship is crucial to the formulation of a position on women in ecclesiastical office. A number of questions surround the subject of headship: 1. What is headship? 2. Does headship imply authority of one human being over another? 3. Or, is headship a term of convenience used […]

As a preface to our discussion of women in ecclesiastical office we want to look briefly at the Biblical concept of “office” itself. When a surveyor prepares to set the boundary lines on a piece of property it is crucial t hat he establish an exact point of beginning. If his point of beginning is […]

Introduction About two years ago I wrote about a most vexing problem in the CRC: women in ecclesiastical office. I entitled the article “The Watershed” (Outlook, June, 1981 , p.8). It began, ‘Watershed’ has been defined as a ‘critical decisive point; a turning point.’ If that definition is true, then we may have before us at […]

There was a time when articles on “church music” would be automatically bypassed by most laymen of the church because such a topic seemed to lie outside the area of their interest or understanding. But times have changed. Many laymen of the church have been captive participants in worship services where a variety of unsettling, sometimes […]

In recent years a number of issues have come up in the CRC which have generated division of opinion in the church. Quite consistently, the conservatives have stated that, what is at stake in these issues is not just the issue itself, but the whole doctrine of Scripture. It has been implied and even stated […]

“Watershed” has been defined as a “critical decisive point; a turning point.” If that definition is true, then we may have before us at the Christian Reformed Synod of 1981 a “watershed.” After eight years of tossing the ball called “Women in ecclesiastical office” into opposing courts, the CR denomination must at last settle the […]

The Equal Rights Amendment has attracted national attention in recent days. The Republican Party at its National Convention removed from its platform support for the ERA. Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan made it clear that the GOP was not thereby removing its support for women’s rights, but was, in fact, promoting women’s rights by protecting women […]

There has never been a time in world history when people in developed countries have been so carefully and well fed physically. Nutrition is a subject which fills pages of every homemaker’s magazine and captures the spotlight of many television ads. Careful studies and experiments have been conducted by experts in many professions and a […]