SHOULD PASTORS BE COUNSELORS? Under the title: “The Shingle and The Manse” Mary Vander Goot, professor of psychology at Calvin College, answers this question in the negative in an article in The Reformed Journal for September, 1983. She begins by agreeing that in the broader use of the term counselling, pastors are called to […]

FOR WHOM AND TO WHOM DOES A SYNOD SPEAK? That is the important question addressed by Dr. K. Runia in an article in Centraal Weekblad van de Gereformeerde Kerken and reported by Rev. Anthony De Jager in De Wachter of 22 June, 1982. Like many of the denominations in America, the Gereformeerde Kerken in the […]

QUEEN WILHELMINA IS DEAD The former queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands died November 28 at the age of 82. When she relinquished her throne and was succeeded by her daughter Juliana, she refused to retain the title of queen and wished to be called Princess Wilhelmina. She had many sterling qualities for which she was […]