Tag: Reformed Church in America

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Angels on the Edge

Two ethereal beings make their way slowly along a lonely beach on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. One is carrying a stick over their

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The Best Story Wins

“There’s a tremendous amount of rot that’s in our agencies and institutions—Calvin University and Seminary. That needs to be cleaned out.” Those are the words

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I Wish I Could Tell

Retirement comes in stages that begin, as I’m starting to understand, not with the last day of one’s job but the first. Two years ago,

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Secession

A well-informed colleague just told me that more than 200 congregations may soon leave the Reformed Church in America (RCA). That’s a fifth of our

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Ephesians and the RCA Today

It’s jarring to read a public appeal by a pastor saying it’s a “necessity” for congregations to leave the Reformed Church in America, bolstered with

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Defining Reformed

Soon this blog will be celebrating its tenth anniversary—on the eve of Reformation Day, naturally. You can expect some hoopla fitting to that august occasion,

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What I Saw at General Synod, III

This is the last of three days of reflections and reports from delegates to the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, which adjourned

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What I Saw at General Synod, II

The General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, meeting in Tucson, Arizona, adjourned on Tuesday. This week — yesterday, today, and tomorrow — we

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