Peripatetic Pastor

Tag: CRC

  • THE HISTORICAL ADAM AND OTHER MYTHS: MEDITATIONS ON THE PAST, PART 3

    The importance of the past In his introduction to Athanasius’s On Incarnation, C. S. Lewis suggested that one should read at least one old book for every new one. By old, he had in mind books from the previous century and beyond. He mentions in a single breath St. Luke, St. Paul, St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas,…

  • THE COLLAPSE OF AUTHORITY: NOTES ON THE CRC SYNOD The real story The synod of the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) has just completed its work. Synod 2025 was devoted mostly to cleaning up the margins on a series of decisions beginning with Synod 2022—decisions that have fundamentally remade the CRC and driven away many members. …

  • Lynden: the Movie

    Lynden (2024). Documentary directed by Chris Baron and Bryan Tucker. Limited release in theaters in the Pacific Northwest. I grew up in Lynden, Washington. The town was much smaller then than now. The sign at the city limits gave the population as 2500. Now it’s something over 15,000, but it feels still like a small town.  The…