During the first week of October the overseas arm of the National Council of Christian Churches held its first meeting since the reorganization plan went into effect early in this year. The avowed aim of the gathering was to emphasize the “new directions” which should be taken by those denominations who in their work follow the […]

Preaching admittedly has fallen upon evil days. The man in the pew often seems to be more interested in the novelties spawned by man’s brain than in the message of the eternal God which alone provides light and life. And the preacher, afraid that he will be accused of being out of step with the times, […]

The moral and spiritual order that for many centuries patterned most of the western world has been fast breaking down. This process, indeed, has been going on for many generations. Today we are reaping a whirlwind which the wind of earlier questioning and rejecting of the true foundations of life had sown. It is to […]

Now that the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands (Gereformeerde Kerken) have judged that membership in the World Council of Churches may be considered a live option, the matter of such affiliation will undoubtedly come into sharp focus in other churches who with their sizeable and influential Dutch sister hold membership in the Reformed Ecumenical Synod. […]

To know the world wherein we live has never been an easy task. So many and such confusing winds are continually blowing, that the average man or woman is hard-pressed to discover any direction. And with all this blowing the well-known landmarks are demolished so thoroughly that life has perforce to be lived in a […]

Recently Time magazine (Oct. 16, 1964) ran a short article on one of the unusual men of our age, suggesting that he “has emerged as one of the century’s most remarkable prophetic thinkers, an Aquinas of the atomic era.” In an interesting column we are reminded of the uniqueness of Teilhard du Chardin, Jesuit father who […]

Vatican II is again in session in the venerable city of Rome. From all over the earth the princes of the church have assembled to undertake the business assigned to them earlier. No longer is the gentle hand of John XXIII at the helm. The question repeatedly raised in the minds and even on the […]

North of the border which separates Canada and the United States we find considerable activity by Calvinists in the field of labor-relations. Recently the Christian Labour Association of Canada addressed an open letter to Parliament. It stated “that the laws of the land are partly responsible for abuses within unions and the failures of many […]

Strange things are happening within the Roman church. Today we witness a definitely medieval church trying to catch up with a modem world. But Rome is making this attempt in a unique way. Nowhere do we read of any repudiation of the principles which were championed for so many years. Instead, in carefully couched language […]

From December 8 through 20, 1963, an important meet· ing is scheduled for Mexico City. At that time the Com· mission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council .of Churches will hold its sessions. It will be a successor to the great series of world missionary conferences held in the past — Edinburgh, Jerusalem, Tambaram, […]