Dr. G. Aiken Taylor, after serving 24 years as editor of the Presbyterian Journal, is leaving that position to become president of Biblical Theological Seminary. The concerns and role of that journal since its beginning ten years before our paper began have in a number of ways been like those of the Outlook, and our […]
Transmitting False Signals J. Tuininga One can’t help but wonder sometimes what has happened to our biblical and Reformed sensitivities in the CRC, to our “Geref voelhorens” as our fathers used to say. What prompts me to say this on this occasion is the report on the recent assembly of the World Council of […]
Jehoshaphat was a great reformer-king whose dedication to the Lord’s service brought peace and prosperity to his people, but his weakness and what proved to be fatal mistake was his broad “ecumenical” sympathy which prompted him to make common cause with Israel’s Ahab and Jezebel, to the ruin of his family and people. God’s prophet […]
Recent articles in the secular press have unmasked the World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches.1 Their support of terrorism and marxist ideology is now more than ever openly exposed. For a long time they have trampled the Gospel of Jesus Christ underfoot, but at last even the lethargic members of many […]
A continuing problem confronting Christian churches is the relationships which they have, or ought to have, with other churches. It is often called the “ecumenical” problem. Our Lord prayed that His followers might be one (John 17:21–24). What is often overlooked in the frequent allusions to that prayer is that in it the Lord prayed […]
Protection Against Poisons The death of several people by taking the popular drug Tylenol which someone had laced with cyanide has sent shock waves across the whole country as many realize how vulnerable we are to being poisoned by the many packaged drugs we buy in countless stores. There has been talk of taking […]
The Reformed Ecumenical Synod met in Lunteren, the Netherlands from August 12-23. The Synod got off to a very slow start taking a whole morning to elect a Moderamen. Thereupon the Modefamen appointed personnel to the various committees then went to work preparing their reports. Procedure is always the difficulty in international meetings of this […]
There is much discussion these days about the changes taking place in the Roman Catholic church. One of the changes that is said to be most noticeable is the openness of that church toward non-Roman Catholics. This is evidenced by an increasing number of discussions of various types which are taking place between Protestants and […]
Editor, TORCH AND TRUMPET Dear Brother in Christ: The June 11 issue of De Wachter contains an article written by its editor commending the official prayer rendered by the World Council of Churches at its General Assembly meeting in Uppsala, Sweden this month. Apparently he sees nothing wrong with this prayer, having been in all […]
THE TIDE IS TURNING There was a time when the great universities in this country were Christian institutions. Today the Christian witness that once was heard in all of these great centers of learning is being muted, or has already been silenced. Secularism is the new religion to which professor and student alike arc committed. The […]