Today the feeling is widespread that the Christian Reformed Church is passing through a period of spiritual declension. Although the churches are still crowded with worshipers who give liberally, we are facing an attitude of smugness on the part of many who think that we have “arrived.” They are willing to expand the practical programs of […]

Walter Lippman, just a year before the outbreak of World War II, accurately described the modern trend toward centralization of authority. He said: “So universal is the dominion of this dogma (that is, of collectivism and centralization of power) over the minds of contemporary men that no one is taken seriously as a statesman or […]