Editor’s note

Where were you in 1987? That was the last time the  Standard Bearer devoted an entire issue -- the special  Reformation issue -- to the doctrine of justification by  faith alone. It is high time we do it again, especially  since the PRCA has endured a schism in which the doctrine was and is contended.  Having recently commemorated God's grace in the  sixteenth-century Reformation, our writers take up  many of the important aspects of this doctrine regarded  by the Reformers as the heart of the...