Issue at Hand, Sept 2018

I remember as a child hearing about the Canons of Dordt. Being a child and not knowing what the word “canon” meant, I often imagined cannons as you would find on a ship or a fort. I knew that the Canons of Dordt couldn’t be referring to actual cannons, but that image always stuck in my mind. I smile now when I think of my thought process as a young child, however, the more I think about it, maybe I wasn’t completely wrong. The production of the Canons of Dordt by the Great Synod was truly a...