This article is a report on experiences of black ministers while managing congregations situated on the borders of South Africa. One such congregation is the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) found in ...

This article focuses on some of the events leading to the first Carnegie Report (1932) and the way the Dutch Reformed Church responded in its wake to the so-called poor white problem. Special attention is given to a ...

The migration of Europeans to the interior of South Africa during the 19th century led to the founding of different churches in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR). A unique situation developed in the Rustenburg region, ...

The paper will seek to evaluate talk of ’diversity‘ in the white Dutch Reformed Church. Drawing on official work within the church as well as online forums where members participated in discussing this topic, the language ...

This article analyses the open session debates on the Belhar Confession at the 2011 and 2013 General Synod meetings of the Dutch Reformed Church. It identifies six key themes that repeatedly emerge from arguments made by ...

This article will provide an overview and analysis of developments in the Dutch Reformed Church’s (DRC) General Synod concerning race, racism, and racial reconciliation from 1986 until 2019. It seeks to extend the multiple ...

One of the most important and influential New Testament scholars of our times, John Dominic Crossan, has done extensive work on the resurrection – not as mere confession, but as a declaration of autonomy in defiance of ...

Minutes of a meeting of the university seminar on peace. Prof. Matthews addressed the meeting on the topic of 'An African concept of peace'. Dated 10 March 1953.

In the period before 1994 many youth members of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA) and Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) never had the opportunity to participate in the governance and administration of their ...