Dear Rev . DeJong, In the September Outlook you quote Rev. Vander Kam on page 8 to the effect that “Ecclesiology, has not been taught. . . in the department of Dogmatics for the last 15 years!” I do not wi sh to take exception to the statement as such, but the implication seems to be […]
A PLEA FOR UNITY IN INTERPRETATION OF GOD’S WORD After reading Banner reports and listening to local reports of Synodical delegates in reference to “Women in Office,” I’m wondering how this all started and what’s the main motive. Surely, it’s not because current deacons are not doing a good job. We’re surely not minimizing the […]
What Happened to the Votum? Someone handed me a page of your (December) issue entitled, “What Happened to the Votum?” (by Rev. C. Van Schouwen). Being 49 years old and having read the Bible for quite a few years, I have yet to read anywhere in the Bible that an order of worship is outlined. […]
Our Economic Problems To the Editor, The Wall Street Journal recently predicted another recession in 1985 because deficit spending will cause high interest rates—another product of the New Deal of the thirties. The New Deal was our point of departure. Under Franklin D. Roosevelt we lost our self-reliance and learned, instead, that providing for our […]
WOMEN IN THE PULPIT Dear Rev. De Jong The back page of your February issue contains a small news item concerning pulpit supply policies at Calvin Theological Seminary. It indicates that Calvin Seminary solicited requests for female students to exhort in non-Christian Reformed Churches which wished to use their services. This notice did appear one […]
DRIFT TOWARD UNBIBLICAL UNIVERSALISM (August, 1983) Letter To The Editor, Doctrinal erosion occurs, according to Dr. Theodore Plantinga, when one disregards or takes lightly the commitment they have to the creedal stand of the church. In Christian Renewal, he cites my book “Unconditional Good News,” as “a sign of such erosion.” He has done this […]
FROM NEW ZEALAND Dear Brother Peter: Greetings from down under from the land of the Kiwis. It’s the middle of winter here but the temperatures during the day rise into the 50s and 60s. We do have frequent frosts but they are as the locals say “ground frosts,” the result is that almost everything remains green […]
To recant: An open letter Dear Rev . DeJong: In the year 80/81, I wrote some heretical articles in the Calvin Seminary weekly paper. These articles were then reprinted in the March, 1981 Outlook, introduced by a preparatory warning written by Rev. J. Piersma. The articles were reprinted with my permission, and you and I, […]
Must We Feed The World? Dear Rev. De Jong: The Communists have infiltrated every segment of society, including many churches. It has now become evident that the unilateral nuclear freeze movement was inspired by the communists. I am also beginning to think that this movement throughout our denomination relative to feeding the hungry […]
“Woe to the Church Whose Trumpet Gives a Faltering Sound” As members of the Christian Reformed Church, we have had the privilege of celebrating the !25th anniversary of our Church in the past year. I read with pleasure the book I Will Build My Church published at the 100th anniversary of the CRC. But if […]