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 […]
Libolt at Calvin (Jan. 1983 Issue) Editor, The Outlook, For someone apparently so concerned with factuality as the editor of The Outlook, he has remarkably little compunction about representing correctly what I said on the occasion of a speech at Calvin College. I will advert to a single but characteristic example of the distortion found […]
Dear Sir: I fully agree with Jelle Tuininga’s statement that seminary presidents should “say it straight!” (Sept. issue, p. 2) So should writers for Outlook! Accurate reporting begins with careful listening. Here Tuininga fails. My comment that I do not think “the church is ready for this yet” occurred in the content of observations about […]
Merely a Question of Ethics? Dear Rev. De Jong, If all goes according to plans, the twin children of a lesbian couple will have been baptized on August 22, 1982 in the Reformed Church of Rotterdam-Delfshaven (one of the churches of the ‘GKN’). That this was not an impulsive decision is evidenced by the fact that […]
CATECHISM WITHOUT LEARNING Dear Sir: This evening I read the article in the Outlook, June 1982 issue entitled “Catechism without Learning” by Jelle Tuininga. I would just like to express my views on Rev. Tuininga’s remarks concerning the Bible Way Curriculum. Before my retirement I had taught 7th and 8th grade classes using Bible Crossroads […]
The Miraculous Shroud? I enjoyed Mr. D. K. Tennant’s article, “The Miraculous Shroud?,” in the March Outlook. One other point which he did not fully develop regarding the believer’s approach to the shroud is as follows below. Perhaps either you or Mr. Tennant would like to make an additional comment. The salvation of the believer […]
Ignorance, How Sad Having been a reader for 40 years, I still enjoy our church papers. The Banner of December 21 and the first Outlook of the new year give me a pain. So much energy wasted! (I refer to “Classis Calls Conference on Women” and “An Evening With Women’s Liberation,” January OUTLOOK). When I […]
Conservatives in the CRC To the editor of The Outlook: I would like to take up the challenge of Dr. Theodore Plantinga, and respond to “Conservatives in the CRC.” However I don’t know if I want to identify with the conservatives as Dr. Plantinga sees them. Maybe I am not a conservative. I consider myself […]
AN ECUMENICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CREED Dear Rev. De Jong: At the risk of sounding defensive, which we are not, we must respond to Myron Rau’s “An Ecumenical Christian School Creed” (November 1981 Outlook). Christian Schools International (CSI; formerly called National Union of Christian Schools or NUCS) has indeed called together a task force to study […]