Jelte Numan
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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 the globe? First because, although...
‘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 an example of what to...
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 not want the common people...
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 open the offices of deacons,...
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 were unable to persuade them...