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Affectionate Worship

John P. Burgess A pastor of a young, dynamic African-American congregation told me that his elders once came to him and asked: “Why is it

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Watching the Anglicans

I remember during the heady days of ecumenism that one of the top Lutheran bishops was happy for the prospect of full communion with the

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Confessional and Confessing

Peter Vander Meulen Belonging to a confessional church that uses written confessions to remember and define itself is a little like belonging to a group

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Steffens, Erastus, and Belhar

Eugene Heideman During the 1880’s, Dr. Nicholas Steffens, the first professor of theology at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, was a strong and vociferous

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