Category Archives: CRC

Why for the CRC the Local Option will not bring peace or unity but instead keep us from having the conversation we need to have about what marriage is for and Christian living in our marketplace world

Posted on April 11, 2016 by PaulVK

Bob De Moor Suggests a Local Option would bring Peace and Unity Banner Editor Bob De Moor in his final editorial suggested that the “local option” might be a way to resolve the question of LGBTQ inclusion in the CRCNA. … Continue reading →

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Taxonomy of CRC Tribes

Posted on April 8, 2016 by PaulVK

A Cord of Three Strands by H. David Schuringa from The Banner 2012 Grassroots High Steeples Explorers

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CRC Notables Call For End of “Easy Blasphemy”

Posted on April 6, 2016 by PaulVK

mlive Journal of preachers: the petition

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Why We Need a Confessional Conversation rather than a Polity Conversation on LGBTQ Inclusion

Posted on April 4, 2016 by PaulVK

Law and Justice The current debate over LGBTQ inclusion is usually framed as either a matter of law, “God doesn’t permit this” or justice “God’s justice demands it.” Beneath the traditionalist argument is usually an implied legalism. “We know God … Continue reading →

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RCA Special Council

Posted on April 4, 2016 by PaulVK

RCA

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CCSF Conversation with Julie Rodgers and Wesley Hill

Posted on April 1, 2016 by PaulVK

CCSF

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Born CRC in 63

Posted on April 1, 2016 by PaulVK

Generations The Builders were my parents. The boomers my older siblings and cousins. The Xers my younger siblings and cousins. The millennials my children. I watched the boomers reject the tyranny of the builders. All their stupid rules about Sabbath … Continue reading →

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Nick Wolterstorff on the SSM Committee Report

Posted on March 23, 2016 by PaulVK

the Banner

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CRC Biblical Marriage

Posted on March 18, 2016 by PaulVK

A new blog devoted to the CRC Marriage Debate http://crcnabiblicalmarriage.org/ Overtures: http://crcnabiblicalmarriage.org/articles/

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Ruth Tucker, Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife

Posted on March 2, 2016 by PaulVK

JesusCreed Ruth was on staff at CTS for a while. The relationship ended in a public and turbulent way. http://www.ruthtucker.net/ From the student newspaper http://kerux.calvinseminary.edu/2006-09-29/01/ Article in The Banner

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