Action and Reaction to the “Women in Office” Issue

Action and Reaction to the "Women in Ofiice" Issue Both action and re-action were responses by various Classes of the Christian Reformed Church to the decision of last June by their Synod to the women in office issue. That Synod, as reported earlier, reversed the position of the Synod of 1994. In 1994 the Synod had declared unequivocally but hardly unanimously that women could not serve in positions of leadership in the CRC. Specifically, they could not be elders or ministers in the...