Aloof from the Alliance

The Alliance of Reformed Churches (ARC) is an organization made up of Christian Reformed congregations unhappy with the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) and of independent churches that have seceded from the CRC. It began in 1984 as a "Consistorial Conference" of CR consistories that objected to developments in the CRC and wanted to plot strategy in opposing these developments. In 1990 the group changed its name to "Christian Reformed Alliance" (CRA). CRA became ARC in 1991. This last change of...