The Protestant Reformed Churches Today (1953-1975)
In 1953, I was merely 14 years old, a 9th grader under Alice Reitsma at Hope Protestant Reformed Christian School, then a small country school. I was aware of the controversy in the churches, but hardly involved. My recollections of it are few. I remember a Sunday evening in Hope when Rev. Hoeksema came to preach – a rare occurrence. He read Ephesians 4. As he was reading, I knew that he meant to preach on verse 14: “…be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of...