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Richard J. Mouw

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Those Surprising Ashes

Richard J. Mouw Lent always takes me by surprise. I'm never quite ready for it. This has always been my pattern, going back to my childhood days as a public school student when I would wander onto the playground on…
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“Those Years …”

JUNE/JULY 2012: ESSAY by Richard J. Mouw At a seminary in Asia, the dean of the school introduced me to one of his faculty members. "This is the president of Fuller Seminary,"; the dean said. I think the dean expected…
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The Selfsame One

Question 52. What comfort is it to thee that "Christ shall come again to judge the quick and the dead"? Answer: That in all my sorrows and persecutions, with uplifted head, I look for the selfsame One, who has before…
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What the Millennialists Have Right

Back in the days when theologians in the world of conservative Protestantism got excited about the differences among premillennialists, postmillenialists, and amillennialists, it was not uncommon for someone to make light of the controversies by saying, "I don't know whether…
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To the End of the Earth

In the mid 1970s, Calvin College hosted a conference of educators from various Reformed institutions of higher education around the world, including both black and white delegates from South Africa. A decision had been made to devote one evening of…