ICRC patience with RCN (GKv) exhausted
Whilst the ICRC, in its aims and purposes, reflects a pluriformity of the church concept, and thereby compromises what we confess about the (true)...
ICRC – Right to Exist?
The decision of the International Conference of Reformed Churches (ICRC) to suspend membership of the RCN (GKv) has been big news on some Christian...
Character, Aim and Purpose of the School
As the reformed church schools in Australia begin a new term it’s good to remember the strong bond between church and school. Our schools...
GKv (RCN) in Bondage to Today’s Culture
In this article Prof Dr C Van Dam shows how the RCN (GKv) decision on women in office is symptom of a deeper problem:...
Concerned members discuss leaving the RCN (GKv)
Why refer, yet again, to something happening in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (RCN or in Dutch GKv) on the other side of...
‘Same-sex Marriage’
Australians are confronted with a relentless push for ‘same-sex marriage’. ARPA is urging its members to email Federal Members of Parliament and Senators. As...
The Need to Read what’s Good
When Luther translated the Bible into a language that the common people could read, he broke the power of Rome. The Roman church did...
Women in office and the (mis)use of Bible texts
The mind boggles at responses in the Dutch religious press following the decision by the ‘Reformed Churches of the Netherlands' (RCN; Dutch GKv) to...
Understanding Terminology
“I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.” (John Calvin)Recently I was privileged to have a lively...
To leave the GKv (RCN)
In 2013 my wife and I were in Holland and spoke with a couple of widowed cousins about the decline in the GKv. We...
Division
Some people speak and write as if division was always sinful; and should be avoided at all costs. True, division is due to sin....
Goals of Reformed Education and the Curriculum
Why do we send our children to our own church schools? Is it so that so that they get taught the same education as...
Next step for GKv: unity with NRC
Once a church takes steps in a certain direction it is often hard to change course. We see an example of that in the...
RCN (GKv) decide for women in office!
It was probably inevitable in view of the very sad decline in the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands (GKv) over the last couple of...
The Bible in the curriculum: perspectives on teaching and learning
“The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof” (Psalm 24:1).Certainly, the Bible in the school, you will agree. No opening devotions can take...