Some 700 nearly filled the large First Christian Reformed Church in Orange City, Iowa, on Tuesday evening, August 28, to hear Professor Nelson D. Kloosterman, newly elected professor of New Testament and Ethics, speak on “Hope for Survival in an Age of Pastoral Brutality.” The occasion was a public meeting held in connection with the Fourth […]
HUNGER FOR GOD’S WORD IN POLAND An article in the Bible Society Record (Feb., 1983) features a large picture of a long line of people, three and four wide, stretching out of sight down the block, waiting to receive Bibles at the Bible House in Warsaw. According to the article in 1982 the Bible […]
Mid-America Reformed Seminary began with four students last September. When her second semester begins in February, she will have at least eight students-seven full time and one part time. The original students came from Iowa, Florida, and California. The incoming students are from Korea, Michigan, California, and Iowa. Sun Myong Kim is the son of […]
The Mid–America Reformed Seminary is “open for business” and by this time the first of many tests has been given by the professors and responded to by the students. The students will be measured as to their abilities and the professors as to their effectiveness in teaching. The students have also been assigned to co-operating […]
This address was de livered at the first Convocation of Mid-America Reformed Seminary at Orange City, Iowa by Dr. Peter Y. DeJong, Administrative Dean for the year 1981–82. The gathering was held in Dordt College Chapel, Sioux Center, IA, on September 1 at 8 p.m. Mr. Chairman, members of the Board of Trustees, esteemed quests, […]
This is the concluding part of an article (beginning in the July issue) by Dr. Monsma, former missionary in Nigeria, who is to teach at the new school at Orange City, Iowa when it begins classes in September. The Seminary’s Program Now we must proceed to the second question that I posed at the beginning. […]
The following material is based on a lecture given by Dr. Monsma in Zeeland, Michigan, on April 29, 1982. The board of Mid-America felt that his lecture should have a wider audience, and that is why it now comes to you in the form of an article, which is to appear in two issues of […]
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 […]
The first SEMFEST and the first meeting of the board of trustees for the newly-organized MidAmerica Reformed Seminary Association took place in September. Both meetings were acclaimed as very successful. Borrowing the idea from the Reformed theological seminary in Kampen, the Netherlands, the new seminary steering committee organized a schooldag (“school day”) for Friday, Sept. […]
Judging by his comments in a recent issue, The Banner editor appears not to know the reasons behind the proposed establishment of an alternate seminary. Though I’m not directly involved in this venture, I am nevertheless sympathetic to it, and I’d like to tell Kuyvenhoven the reasons for my sympathy. Kuyvenhoven’s editorial colleague, the Rev. […]