Calvin Seminary Class of 1960
Burning the Wooden Shoes
The Banner is the official periodical of the Christian Reformed Church and probably the most famous editorial written in living memory (Nov. 3 1980) was editor Andy Kuyvenhoven’s declaration “it’s time to burn the wooden shoes”. If you Google you won’t find the article itself (perhaps The Banner should post it on its website for study sake) but you will hear its echoes. Thirty years later the phrase is still generating conversation.
After Ed published my contribution to his “Denominational Derby” and the first comment mentioned ethnicity I knew I had hit the nerve, THE nerve in the depths of the Christian Reformed Church’s most insecure, angst ridden self.
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