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. […]
Will there be a new Reformed Seminary? Needless to say, only God knows for sure. All that we know for sure is that eight CRC ministers in northwest Iowa have voiced their conviction of the urgent need for such a seminary, that at a meeting in Chicago on April 21 it was decided to proceed […]
An event that may prove to be important in our Reformed circles was the decision made on April 21, 1981 to organize a society to establish a new Reformed theological seminary. The decision was made at a meeting held at the Airport Hilton Hotel at O’Hare Airport at Chicago. The Tuesday afternoon, three–hour meeting was […]
What it means to pray for one’s enemies, and to bless those who are cursing you. The ANC’s mass action campaign commenced today. Mark, we need your prayers especially for those who are losing hope, temper and perspective. Many black Christians are being intimidated not to go to work. and they live in precarious conditions […]
Over the past several months, a number of items of inaccurate or misleading information about Mid-America Reformed Seminary have appeared in the Christian Reformed Church publication, TIle Banner. For example, the interim editor alleged that Mid-America offered a teaching position to one of the authors of me Synod Report 44 (‘Well-Nurtured Discontent,’ The Banner, March 1, […]
On a warm clear night, in a field in Dyer, Indiana, the Mid-America Reformed Seminary Board of Trustees and over two hundred well-wishers embarked on an exciting journey. One by one, these board members put their hands not to the plow, but to a shovel to turn the earth in the spot where the new seminary […]
Several years ago I wrote an article for the Mid-America Messenger entitled, “No Room on the Denominational Plane” (7/9, August, 1989). The article commented on the decision of Synod 1989 of the Christian Reformed Church not to include Mid· America Reformed Seminary on the denominational list of approved causes for offerings in the churches. Since […]