Jelte Numan
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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...
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. There was unity and harmony...
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 at the state school but...
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 matter of women in office....